A Discovery Service provides a single, unified search box for searching the holdings of the University of Pretoria Libraries, including books, journals, scholarly articles and much more. Features of the service include:
- Single, simple entry point for searching many databases at once
- Immediate search results
- Indexing for thousands of journals from publishers such as Sage, Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and Cambridge
- Complete library catalog with real-time availability checks
- Ability to limit searches by date, source type, subject, content provider, full text availability and more
- User-friendly interface
At the University of Pretoria Libraries, we use WorldCat Discovery as our Discovery Service.