Carrying out a broad search in the UWA OneSearch catalog is a good way to identify core sources on a topic. OneSearch collates content from a range of resources including databases. Users can refine their search results by subject, resource type, or specific database collections. For example, a significant number of results may come from the ProQuest database platform, so searching within that platform can help improve results.

1. Carrying out a broad search in UWA OneSearch is a
good way to identify core sources.
OneSearch is the main UWA Library catalogue collating
all content across a range of resources.
Use OR to identify all items with search terms
Refine by Subject focus areas
Limit to specific Resource types
 Identify the core Database collections on topic
University Library
UWA’s OneSearch to
Database Platforms.

2. Begin with a broad search of your drug
Refine by subject or type

3. OneSearch
One of the ways to limit is by
database collection.
Click “More options” to view
the main source of your
search results.
A significant number of results are from the ProQuest
Database Platform so this would be worth searching

4. OneSearch
By clicking “include” you can refine to only
these results
Take one of the
results out to the
ProQuest Database
Platform

5. ProQuest
From within a large platform such as ProQuest you can select the most
appropriate subject specific databases to improve your search results.
View by subject

6. ProQuest
A search within a database platform will give you a range of different limits –
source types, subject headings and classification - to use to refine results.

7. ProQuest
In this example results have been limited to Scholarly Journal Reports with a
focus on Humans & Influenza Antiviral Agents.
Different database packages will provide different specific subject terms and filters.