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Community Justice Project: LibrarySearch

The Community Justice Project offers an opportunity for students to integrate the University’s mission into their Clinic experience as they work for justice and reconciliation. This guide presents resources and information for guided research into topics

LibrarySearch.stthomas.edu

LibrarySearch.stthomas.edu is the University of St. Thomas libraries' simple, one-stop search for books, articles, videos, recordings, and more. 

LibrarySearch has two main functions:

  • It’s a discovery tool that helps you search for books, articles, media, and other library resources
  • It’s your library account system for managing your check-outs, renewals, and hold requests

Items you can find through LibrarySearch

books and boxes on a shelf

Items on our shelves, such as:

  • Books
  • Journals, Magazines & Newspapers
  • DVDs and CDs

laptop with item on the screenOnline Items, such as:

  • eBooks
  • Articles & Reports
  • Streaming music and video
  • St. Thomas Digital Collections

newspaperNOTE on Newspaper Articles: 
Newspapers articles are not included in the search results.  To find newspaper articles, choose “Newspapers” from the top of the screen, or, after running your search, click “Newspaper search” at the bottom of the page or on the left side of the screen.

 

 

Sign In

Sign in to LibrarySearch using your UST username and password.

Signing in allows you to:

  • View Full-Text of licensed content
  • Renew loans
  • Place requests
  • Access your library record
  • Save searches for future retrieval
  • Save records to your folder
  • Display additional journal database records

How to Search

  1. Look for a specific database.  Useful when you have a particular topic in mind (i.e. social sciences, criminal justice, etc.)
  2. Look up articles in a specific Journal that UST has access to (e.g. Journal of American Medicine)
  3. Look for newspaper articles by click Newspapers, or, after running your search, click “Newspaper search” at the bottom of the page or on the left side of the screen.
  4. Run a search. Search by title (if you know it) or keywords.
  5. Run an advanced search. Use connectors and limiters to get to the information you need faster.

 

 

See all the resources St. Thomas has available on a particular subject.  Search by subject by:

  1. Choose Advanced Search and then change the dropdown to "Subject". Enter in your subject and click Search.
    OR
  2. When looking at a resource, use the filters on the left-hand side for the subjects associated with the resource, and filter by those for more relevant books and articles.

Browse available resources on each subject in our catalog.

 

Business ethics

 Civil Rights
Discrimination

Distributive Justice
Educational equalization Environmental justice
Feminist ethics Homelessness
Human rights

Human security
Human trafficking Medical ethics

Political ethics

 Poor
Poverty Public welfare
Social ethics Social justice
Social rights Violence
Women's rights ...and More!