Quick Search contains all of Washington University Libraries’ holdings, including books, journals, periodicals, and multimedia. The default search also shows results from a large index comprising billions of records for popular and scholarly articles, as well as other materials.
You can limit your search criteria in a variety of ways, both before and after obtaining results.
Practically everything the library has access to, including the records in other subject databases, is discoverable via Quick Search. If you have a general or multi-disciplinary topic that you are starting to research or if you are tracking down a specific citation for a known item, Quick Search is a great place to start.
However, subject databases with a refined scope may still offer you a more robust way of setting your search criteria. If you want to search by chemical reactant, industry classification code, docket number, age of experimental subjects, and so on, for example, one of our subject databases is a better place to start your search.
Ask Us for help with your research.
Our linking system does not work perfectly. You may find a link in Quick Search that does not actually lead to the full text of your item, and other materials to which we have access may be missing links.
Please let us know about any linking problems you encounter by completing the Report a Problem with an eJournal, eBook, or other eResource form.
The Fixing Linking Errors guide contains some tips for troubleshooting these errors on your own.
You can also use the LibKey.io portal to search by a known DOI for access.