What is OneSearch?

OneSearch is an online search portal that helps you find information across a variety of resources from the National Library Board (NLB)’s libraries and archives databases as well as National Heritage Board (NHB)’s museum repository of artefacts and artworks. It can retrieve a wide range of digital content such as books, magazines, audio-visual materials, eBooks, photographs, films, oral history interviews and maps residing in the NLB’s libraries and archives databases and NHB’s repository.

For more information about OneSearch, please refer to their FAQ page here.

Basic Searching

1. Access OneSearch via the link here.

   • OneSearch can also be accessed via the search button in NLB’s eResources page after you have logged in using myLibrary ID. To find out more about setting up myLibrary ID, please refer to this link.

     

2. On the homepage, type in your desired topic or title into the search bar

   

3. By default, the search results you see in the centre column will display those in book format. For smartphone users, you will see the results directly on top.

   

4. In order to explore other formats of your search topic, select the respective categories from the filtering column on the right-hand side of the screen. For smartphone users, these categories can be seen under your search results by scrolling down.

   

5. When selecting the formats on the right, please note that some of them will bring you to other NLB websites or digital platforms where you can view the actual information source (e.g. digitised newspapers from NewspaperSG).

• Please note that access to eJournals will require you to log in using myLibrary ID on OneSearch’s webpage. You can log in via the button located at the top right hand corner of the webpage.

  

Bonus tip

Advanced Search

To make your search more efficient, select ‘Advanced Search’ below the main Search button. You can now search through various criteria (e.g. Title, Creator, Publication etc) and format categories to get more specific results.

Search by publication title

1. For eJournals, you can also search for specific publications by title.

   • Please note that access to eJournals will require you to log in using myLibrary ID on OneSearch’s webpage.

1. On the OneSearch homepage, click on eJournals

   

2. Click on “Click here to search by publication title”. A new tab/window will pop up.

   

3. In the search bar, type in the publication name (e.g. Harvard Business Review). Click “Search”

   

4. A list of relevant results will appear. If full-text access is available, click on the respective link to access the publication.