Discover

Discover now uses uppercase OR

April 29, 2013

Discover and the other EBSCOhost databases now require OR to be in uppercase/capitals when searching for alternative terms. So for example you could look for: teenagers OR adolescents OR youth This applies to most search tools, including the...Read more

Logging in to the Library

April 29, 2013

Are you confused about logging in to the Library? There are several points on the Library website where you may need to login. Unfortunately we’re not able to reduce all that to a single login at this time. So just to clarify, here are the...Read more

New Ebooks

December 19, 2012

We now have access to more than 94,000 ebooks in the EBSCOhost Academic Collection. They are available by searching in Discover on the Library home page, and will also eventually be available through the Library Catalogue.      ...Read more

Discover Demonstration

September 10, 2012

The new ‘Discover in detail’ demonstration shows you how to: use Discover’s advanced search (several search boxes) manage references (exporting to EndNote, folders) So if you want to look at some of the extra features in...Read more

‘Linked Full Text’ in Discover

September 7, 2012

The ‘linked full text’ in Discover isn’t working properly off campus at the moment. We’re working on fixing this, but in the meantime there’s an easy solution. Just click on ‘Hello, Guest. Login for full...Read more

Using Folders in Discover

May 1, 2012

From discussions with students over the past couple of weeks, it appears there’s confusion about how the folder in Discover is supposed to work. Students add items to a folder, but are finding the folder empty when they next go in to...Read more

Tick the Full Text Box

May 1, 2012

Are you having trouble getting to the full text of some articles in Discover results? Massey Library doesn’t hold everything that Discover finds. If you’d like to see just the ones that we do have, then tick one of the full text boxes in...Read more

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