What UMBrella Searches:
UMBrella searches items in our physical collections and electronic resources we have access to. UMBrella shows you most what we have access to across our databases from journal articles, to ebooks, to streaming video, and beyond, but not quite everything.
This is partially why searching databases can yield different, more, or less results than UMBrella.
How UMBrella Searches:
UMBrella presents the results using their own ranking algorithms. UMBrella automatically sorts results based on relevance, but you can change it to be sorted by date of publication, etc.
Relevance
- For author and/or title searches, the original books are ranked higher than material about the book.
- When searching for author names, the material written by the author is ranked higher than the material about the author.
- Ranked higher if keywords are found in author, title or subject fields (Exact Title match is set to be weighted the most heavily)
- Ranking also factors in how often the search terms occur in the record
Academic significance
- Published in a peer reviewed journal
- Number of times cited
- Material type (i.e. journal article vs. newspaper article)
Publication date
- More recently published materials show up higher in the results list
"Include results outside of library subscriptions" Filter
Apply this filter (found under Sort & Filter Results) to find all results that match your search, instead of only the results you have immediate access to. These records will have the status of “No Full Text: Interlibrary Loan may be available.”
Once you sign in to your library account you will have an option to "request article through Interlibrary Loan" under the Request Options heading on the record page for each result. The title, authors etc. of the article will autofill, simply scroll down and click "submit request", and then receive a PDF within 48 business hours (often sooner).
Logging in to UMBrella Account
Logging in to your library account may increase your number of results, depending on the search, but only slightly. Some results are only visible when logged in, but they’re mostly records for abstract databases, meaning databases that provide searching capabilities and abstracts (summaries) of articles, but link out to UMBrella or other databases for full text access.
Here are our abstract databases:
For the most part, logging in will not change your searches, but logging in will also allow you to bookmark articles, view your library account, and request items for interlibrary loan.
