Lafayette College Library

Well Well at first I thought Okay~! This is good, maybe better keeping this.

But But after I actually typed in a keyword (related to the research topic that I've been working on for the faculty-student research) and tried to see if all those significant articles that I read for lit.review in the past. I often use Google Scholar or PsycInfo to find articles and honestly I couldn't find a significant difference between those and OneSearch (especially considering the amount of money you pay). As someone else mentioned above OneSearch was not efficient to find a specific (the very right one the very right one!!!! that i'm looking for) article.. Also although it said the presented order of articles was based on the relevance related to the topic but actually I couldn't see the primary articles that I used for my intro and conclusion...

I feel that one search is very helpful when searching for people, but less concise when searching for a specific topic. Whenever I looked for a person, I recieved a variety of visual, audio, and written resources. I seemed to have more difficulty looking for subjects though. Overall, I think it is a good addition to Lafayette, but not necessarily essential.

One Search seems to be very user-friendly, especially for students who are beginning to do research. It is a helpful research tool to see the availability of a certain article in different database. Library catalogue and ILL service are incorporated. GOOD tool overall.

OneSearch is doing a good job of providing direct PDF download for research paper that have online source.

That's easier than the seperate searching tool. I appreciate this feature of OneSearch.

It is not as useful as I was expecting it to be. I think the school should try it for two years to see what incoming students think of it. It could be really helpful for those beginning research, but once you are more used to doing research I think it is easier to search within indiviudal journals.

It is certainly very helpful to concentrate many different databases under one search. However, it takes more time to locate the item.

In addition, opportunity cost should be considered. Given the fact that we already have sufficent search tools, we should consider how much more money are we willing to spend on search tools, or is it better spent if this amount of money is used in other improvements of library?

I think that this has the potential to be very useful to Lafayette students. Instead of opening up a series of links, everything is now contained on one single page. I also like that we can specify our search materials in order to find the exactly articles that we want.

It seems very useful. Results are relevant and it's nice to truly see EVERYTHING on one page. It also provides a cleaner and more friendly interface for searching Lafayette's own catalog.

OneSearch doesn't seem to do a very good job of locating specific journals.