Go to the Library Home page and enter your keywords on any topic in the search box where you see "Find article, books, videos, and more..."
Watch either short video to learn more about using the Discovery Search box to locate articles, ebooks, and more.
From within your search results, you may add filters from the options in the left column to refine your search. Selected filters will be retained for all of your searches unless you uncheck the Retain Filters box.
Popular filters include:
By default, the search results will first display those items owned by Wilmington University Library. You can change the default Library sort and choose to sort your results by Best Match, Recency, Author (A-Z), Date (Newest First), Date (Oldest First), Most Widely Held (meaning owned by other libraries) or Title (A-Z). Scroll down to see each sort option and corresponding behavior.
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Best Match |
Blends Title, Author, Date and Worldwide Holdings with an emphasis placed on Title. |
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Recency |
Blends Date, Title, Author and Worldwide Holdings with an emphasis placed on Date. |
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Library (default) |
Considers individual holdings first, then blends Title, Author, Date and Worldwide Holdings. |
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Author (A to Z) |
Sorts by special characters or numbers in the first name, then A to Z by last name. |
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Date (Newest) |
Sorts chronologically by publication date with newest items listed first.
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Date (Oldest) |
Sorts chronologically by publication date with oldest items listed first.
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Most Widely Held |
Presents an "unclustered" view of search results with an emphasis on Worldwide Holdings in a blend of Date, Title, and Author. Use this sort option to view best results for interlibrary loan requests. |
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Title |
Sorts by special characters, then alphabetically by Title. Only the article "the" is ignored. |
By default, Discovery will first display those items owned by Wilmington University Library.
The "View Full Text" button will appear for any articles from WilmU subscribed or open access resources contained in the databases. Click on "View Full Text" to view the article in its home database. You may be prompted to log into MyWilmU before getting access to the article.
Depending on the content format, you may also click on "Access Journal," "View eBook," or for print materials, you may see the shelf location.
Discovery systems work to link data from many systems to bring as many resources to the user as possible. By default, Discovery searches WorldCat.org, a growing catalog of millions of records from libraries across the globe including content from 100+ WilmU Library subscription databases. A few publishers and database vendors are still in the process of formatting their data so that it can be included in a Discovery search. Financial information databases including Mergent Intellect, Mergent Archives, Sports Market Analytics, and a few Gale databases contain content that cannot be searched in Discovery. These databases should be accessed individually from the A-Z list.