Answered By: Amanda Pruka
Last Updated: Oct 28, 2025     Views: 121

Catalogs and databases, such as WorldCat and OneSearch, have different levels of indexing. This affects what part of an article you can search by. For example, some index the title of news articles while others only index the titles of news publications.     

OneSearch vs WorldCat: Searching by Title and Type

OneSearch

WorldCat

Tips

Book by title

Yes. However, print books are limited to MnPALS libraries. 

Yes, most comprehensive

See: Find Books

Book chapter by chapter title

Yes

Yes

See: Scans of chapters

Dissertations

Yes

Yes

See Dissertations

Peer-reviewed article by article title

Yes

Yes

Use LibKey to search by DOI or PMID

Magazine article by article title

Yes

Yes

Try news databases such as Proquest or Browzine

Looking for historical magazines? See Archives and Primary Source databases.

News by article title

Yes, but not in the default search. Select Newspaper Search from the bottom of the page or under Resource Type

No

See guide News and Newspapers

Trade journal article by title of article

Yes

Yes

Try news and research databases

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