OneSearch contains records from a very large number of sources. We call it OneSearch because it is a single place to find many different types of materials that we've collected.

Below you'll find an explanation of what exactly is included, and which library resources will not be found using OneSearch.

Catalog

Libraries typically acquire lots of print books and other items such as streaming media, ebook licenses, and loanable technology. These items become part of the library's catalog. At FLC these items are stored in a staff-facing system called Alma. OneSearch (which the vendor calls Primo VE) is the search system that allows users to find the items stored in the library catalog. 

Databases

The Library also subscribes to a large number of online information databases. The way OneSearch maps onto these databases is complicated. The product behind OneSearch, Primo VE, is known as a discovery layer. While most or our databases host content such as full-text articles, videos, images and so on, OneSearch collects records from all sorts of different places and directs end-users to the full resource on some other platform.

Whether or not OneSearch will show you everything you could find in another database depends upon whether it has the same records. Whether it has those records depends largely on the relationship Primo VE's vendor (Clarivate) has with other database vendors.

Journal Databases (Good Coverage)

We can expect OneSearch results to cover nearly all of the content that is available for Folsom Lake College for some databases. These databases primarily hold academic journal articles and have direct relationships with the vendor that supplies OneSearch, Clarivate. 

Examples of these databases include:

• JSTOR
• Ovid Journals
• Sage Journals
• ScienceDirect
• Wiley Online Library

Note that as content changes in these databases, it may take time for OneSearch to catch up due to delays in data sharing between vendors.

Journal Databases (Limited Coverage)

Some database vendors do not supply much information to Clarivate, so much of their content will be missing from OneSearch results. The most prominent example of such a vendor is EBSCO, which provides Academic Search Complete and several other highly used databases.

EBSCO and Clarivate are corporate competitors, and EBSCO has declined to provide Clarivate with much metadata. OneSearch will show article records for journals held in EBSCO databases if it has those records from some other provider, and will include a link to the article on EBSCO's platform. But if it doesn't have records for certain journals found in EBSCO databases, articles from those journals will not turn up in OneSearch results.

Ebooks and Streaming Videos

Nearly all of the titles in our ebook and streaming media databases can be found in OneSearch. In some cases, results representing chapters of ebooks can also be found in OneSearch.

Note that links from those records might lead to the ebook title page rather than directly to the chapter described.

Newspapers

OneSearch does not show many newspaper articles. If you want to search for newspaper articles, it is best to go to our individual databases, such as Access World News, Sacramento Bee Collection, US Major Dailies, and New York Times with Index.

Popular Magazines

OneSearch has records for many popular magazines, but the records tend to have very little information in them. These records will usually be missing summaries or subject headings. This means they are not very likely to come up in search results. If you use the filters to limit to magazines you might have more success.

There are lots of popular magazines that OneSearch doesn't have records for at all. You might be better off searching in a database such as MasterFILE Complete, or even doing general web searches and then, if you hit a paywall, checking OneSearch's Journals by Title to see if the Library provides access to it. 

Special Resources

Some library resources are not represented in OneSearch. Examples include:

• CollegeSource Online
• CountryWatch
• Oxford English Dictionary
• HAPI

Open-Access (Free) Resources

A growing amount of scholarly material is available for free. OneSearch will often feature open-access articles and ebooks, even when the Library does not license any materials from the publisher.