Holmes One Search

The BC Libraries have introduced a new way of searching the libraries’ collections of books, videos, DVDs, and other sources. It’s called Holmes One Search and it’s linked to from the Libraries home page. (You can also go there directly at http://www.bc.edu/holmes.)

Here are some of the advantages of searching the Libraries’ catalogs via Holmes:

• Spell-checking your search terms (Did you mean….?)
• Ranking search results by how well they match your search terms (relevance ranking)
• Ability to narrow your results by topic, author, publication date, library, collection, language, and genre
• Ability to save your results in your personal “e-shelf” or export records to RefWorks, your cell phone, or social networking sites. (You’ll have to sign in with your BC username and password to take advantage of these features.)

Holmes also lets you do quick searches of key communication databases (and those in other disciplines) though not as effectively as using the databases themselves.

Give it a try, and let me know if you have any questions, or send feedback to the BC Libraries via the Send Feedback link in Holmes.