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WorldCat Discovery

A guide to searching and navigating results in the Library's discovery layer, WorldCat Discovery.

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Navigating Search Results

Narrow your search results using the options in the left column. Options include:

Library: Discovery is defaulted to search our Library’s resources, as well as other libraries that use WorldCat products. Narrow your search to the University of Winnipeg Library by selecting it here.

Content: If you’re searching for articles, narrow to those that are available in full text and/or those that are peer reviewed here.

Format: Narrow your search to Books, Print or eBooks, Articles, etc.

Databases: Discovery defaults to searching the WorldCat.org database. If you wish, you can search additional databases through the Advanced Search.

Author: Select a preferred author here.

Year: Narrow your results to a single year, the last 5, 10, or 25 years, or a range of your choice here.

Language: Narrow your results to a single language here.

Topic: Further narrow your results by a subject.

Search results are displayed with minimal information here, including title, author, date of publication, the resource's availability and location (for print) or a link to the resource (for electronic).To find out more about a resource, click its title.

After clicking on the title of a resource, the "Item Detail" feature will expand. Click on any of these sections to expand them:

Description: View a full description of the resource (including a summary, subjects, a contents list, and more).
Editions & Formats: Check if other formats (i.e. print or electronic)  or editions of the resource are available.
Availability/Holdings: See if the resource is available at our Library, and copy down its call number. If the Library does not have a copy, request it from another library by selecting Screenshot of button that says "Request Item Through InterLibrary Loan"..

To close the item detail view and return to the regular results list, click the The "close item detail" button - an x inside a dark gray circle. button at the top right of the record.

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