Our new Everything library search engine, powered by the Summon Discovery Service, allows you to search across many separate resources using a single search box. Its breadth of coverage and ease-of-use make it an ideal place for quickly finding research -books, articles, and more – on any topic. When you do a search in the “Everything” tab on the UB Libraries homepage, your search results will appear in two columns: the left side, “Books & more,” are results from our catalog;  the right side, “Articles & more,” are results from our databases.

Keep in Mind…

Our discovery search service searches many but not all of the resources provided by the UB Libraries.  Many people will find that this new service points them to all the research they need; others will want to dig deeper and search our subject-specific databases.

What Do You think?

This search service is an innovative way to discover research and new content and functionality are continually being added. Your feedback is important and will help us improve the service – please let us know what you think!

Loan periods for Health Sciences and Silverman multimedia collections have changed. All multimedia materials for these two collections now circulate for 10 days. Faculty and staff may also book any multimedia item for classroom viewing. You will notice a new “Booking Request” icon on the item’s catalog page along the top icon bar. Clicking that icon will take you through the steps to book an item. Multimedia materials will no longer be subject to recalls or holds because of the booking feature.
A postcard announcing this change will be sent to faculty and staff in a few weeks.

Questions? Contact Lori Widzinski, 829-5744 or Michael Kankiewicz, 645-1329.

On Monday, January 9, all databases formerly published by Wilson will switch to the EBSCO platform.  This is only a platform change and all content will remain the same.  You can preview these databases on the EBSCO platform from these links on campus:

• Art Abstracts (H.W. Wilson)
• Art Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson)
• Education Index Retrospective: 1929-1983 (H.W. Wilson)
• Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (H.W. Wilson)
• Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981 (H.W. Wilson)
• Library Literature & Information Science Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
• Readers’ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 (H.W. Wilson)
• Wilson Biographies Illustrated

EBSCO acquired Wilson in June of 2011.