What is MCPHS Smart Search?
MCPHS Smart Search allows you to search across the Library's collections and includes:
- Books, ebooks, videos and streaming media in the MCPHS collection.
- Articles from journals, newspapers, and magazines.
- Legal, government and company information
Why search MCPHS Smart Search?
MCPHS Smart Search pools the information from many of the library's databases. It is good for:
- Quick searches
- Exploring a topic
- Interdisciplinary topics
- Helping you decide which specific databases might be useful for your topic.
Why search a specific database?
- Specific databases curate content for a specific discipline or subject.
- You do not have to include that idea in your search.
- You have to worry less about words that have different meanings in different contexts, such as nursing or stress.
- Specific databases have specialized tools to help you find what you want. They may have:
- their own terminology (subject headings)
- filters
- annotation or citation features
