By default, users concurrently search hundreds of subscribed and open access databases and collections in our WorldCat Discovery knowledge base, in addition to the global library holdings in WorldCat when using the Library's Discovery search box on the Library home page. Searching Discovery will locate WilmU Library resources with full text access, along with resources that can be borrowed from other libraries.
If Discovery is already searching our subscribed and/or open access databases by default, what is the purpose of selecting any of the databases listed in the Advanced Search?
WorldCat Discovery is searching the giant index of WorldCat.org which contains millions of bibliographic records. This is a lot of records but not ALL of the records. There are some records that are only indexed by publishers (Sage, Taylor & Francis, ScienceDirect, Wiley) or aggregators (EBSCOhost, ProQuest), and not all of these records will be included in the default WorldCat.org index. In order to easily find these “hidden” records, users can select additional databases and indexes to search from Discovery Advanced Search.
