BenSearch: What Can You Search?

In BenSearch, you can select from different pools of content ("scopes") in which to search:

• All Benedictine Resources (default selection)

 Everything in the Benedictine Library catalog plus articles and electronic items such as, book chapters, conference papers, media items, newspaper articles, electronic content the library subscribes to, some Open Access resources, and some EBSCO content.

• Library Catalog
  
  Print and electronic books, journals, audiovisual items, and various other materials available in the Benedictine Library collection.
   
• Articles
  
  Journal and newspaper articles, electronic content the library subscribes to, some Open Access resources, and some EBSCO content

Note: Only selected databases are included in the search.  Click on the Databases link on the red toolbar near the top of  the library webpage to access all our databases

 

• EBSCO Search
  
  Search for articles, e-books, and encyclopedia entries that the Benedictine Library subscribes to provided by the EBSCO vendor.
   

  • For search results beyond the Benedictine Library Catalog, BenSearch uses a centralized index that encompasses hundreds of millions of records of global or regional significance that are harvested from primary and secondary publishers and aggregators. The number of records is constantly growing as additional data sources are added.

    Bringing these results back to BenSearch and attempting to “blend” them in with the rest of the results from the central index sometimes causes significant issues and errors.  For this reason, the Benedictine Library has chosen to provide a separate search for EBSCO content.  
    

• All I-Share Libraries

Materials in 89 academic libraries in the state of Illinois.  Many of these items can me requested and borrowed through Interlibrary Loan.