Discover

What is Discover?

Discover is an all-in-one finding tool, which searches for books, articles, and more using one simple search box.

How is Discover different than other library databases?

Discover combines most of the library’s resources into one search experience. Individual databases, such as Business Source Premier and Education Research Complete, tend to have a particular type of content (usually articles) and subject-focus.

Discover is different because it searches nearly all of these databases at once. If you don’t know which database to start with, or if you aren’t sure what type of resource you need, try starting with Discover.

Don't want it "All"?

Search Scopes allow you to limit your search by collections. So instead of searching it all, ALL the time, the new Discover lets you limit your search scope to the specific material you need (Figure 1).

For example, clicking CSU Library Catalog will change the search scope to the physical collections of the Cardinal Stritch University Library; only those collections will be searched. Choosing SWITCH, will search the collections of the entire SWITCH Library Consortium, functioning like the former TOPCAT.