 QuickSearch Help
Our QuickSearch feature currently offers four options for you to run a search:
NovaCat Catalog | Library Website | Credo Reference | Google Scholar
NovaCat Catalog
NovaCat is where you find books, ebooks, videos, music, periodicals, and other print material owned by the NSU Libraries. This search option runs a keyword search against the NovaCat catalog.
Library Website
A Google Search feature has been added on April 2008 to enable our users to search the entire Sherman Library website. If you find oddities or broken links in search results, please report them here.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference is an online library containing 270+ full text reference books. It includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, as well as subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law. Credo Reference provides cross-references between reference books to help you locate relevant information.
The library pays for a subscription to Credo, so you will be required to log in to use it if you are off campus.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar does a broad search for selective scholarly literature. It retrieves a range of material, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from universities, academic publishers, and other scholarly organizations whose content has been indexed by Google.
Our Google Scholar links to the NSU Libraries' collections with  to let you find full text, when available, by linking to the Libraries' subscription database resources, the online catalog, and document delivery/interlibrary loan.
You will be required to log in to use our Google Scholar if you are off campus. This gives you access to articles licensed by the University that might be found by your search.
Google Scholar is not a substitute for the NSU Libraries' 250+ subscription databases, but it may help you find useful material.
Google Scholar has some limitations:
- It is incomplete and selective in content
- It does not provide all the searching and service advantages of the Libraries' subscription databases
- It does not have an identifiable date range of coverage
- It does not limit by types of material (do you want books, scholarly or popular journals, dissertations, etc.?)
- It does not let you mark and save records or create lists
- It does not provide citation format options
Hints for success with Google Scholar:
- Use the subject categories in Advanced Search to eliminate irrelevant articles
- Use the Publication, Author, and Date fields in Advanced Search if you are searching for a particular article or journal
- Use Google's advanced operators (+, - , OR, " ", and "intitle") to focus your search
- Toggle between "All articles" and "Recent articles" to rank search results by relevance or date
- Don't pay for access to information!
You get free access to many journals, documents, dissertations, and books from the library. When you find a good article that doesn't have full text, check our databases, NovaCat, and Journal Finder.
If we don't have it in print or electronically, you can get it free from another library through the Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan service.
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