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Searching for Books, Articles, Journals, or Films
By default, Discovery Search will search for all item types. After you run your search, you can specify if you'd like Discovery Search to look only for certain item types:
Selecting books will include both physical books and ebooks; selecting articles will include all article types except newspapers; selecting journals will include the journals themselves, not the articles within them; and selecting video/film will include both streaming video and physical copies of films.
Finding physical items
When you conduct a search in Discovery Search, the list of results will contain a mixture of item types: books, ebooks, journal articles, magazine articles, and much more. If you would like to find a physical book, first select "book" from the options below the search bar:
To find a print book, select a location under the "Library" limiter.
Finding newspaper articles
Newspaper results are automatically excluded from the search results. If you're looking for newspapers, Discovery Search offers a newspaper search option. After you've entered your search terms and come to the page of results, select "Newspapers search" under the Format option:
You'll be taken to a new page of just newspaper articles. Use the options on the right to choose the publication date range, the subject, newspaper title, and more: