Primo is the Washington University Libraries’ discovery layer search tool, meaning it searches across hundreds of catalogs, indexes, and databases. Primo searches Washington University Libraries’ Classic Catalog; articles, journals, and theses; Research Guides; and Open Scholarship as well as articles, reference materials, and e-books from various publishers and aggregators.

Information about books, journal titles, videos, and materials in other formats owned by more than 15,000 U.S. and foreign libraries. DOES NOT INCLUDE JOURNAL ARTICLES.

Bibliographic information on over 300,000 serials (journals and magazines), including almost 55,000 ceased titles. Covers academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more. Includes provide data points such as ISSN, publisher, language, subject, abstracting & indexing coverage, full-text database coverage, tables of contents, and reviews written by librarians.

Bibliographic information on books & other materials published in United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Includes Publishers, Distributors & Wholesalers of the U.S. which is updated quarterly.