About X Search

X Search enables you to

• Do a preliminary search in a broad subject Quicksets area using 'Google-like' searching in Quick Search
• See all the databases relevant to a specific subject area using Advanced Search and select and search up to fifteen of them simultaneously
• Analyse and refine your search results quickly using clusters and facets
• Find databases suitable database for your topic via Find Database
• Find e-Journals for specific knowledge areas via Find E-Journal
• Create your own Quicksets and store your favourite articles, databases, searches and ejournals via My Space to manage your research
• Set up regularly automatic searches to alert you whether new matching items have been added since the last time the search was run
• Export into Endnote results from many databases and searches in one process

X Search speeds your research by

• Providing links to the full text of items where available (JCU Library subscribes to over 25,000 e-journals)
• Providing pre-selected subject collections of databases (JCU Library subscribes to over 300 databases covering many subjects)