Search Gateway

The Search Gateway of the RheinMain University and State Library lists the holdings of our five locations as well as e-media.

If the e-media listed have been licensed by the library, you will be linked directly to the full text. Access information.

The Search Gateway offers convenient search options, and you can also narrow down and refine the number of hits.

If the Search Gateway is not available, you can openthe previous view of the conventional online catalog.

The "advanced search" offers the option of restricting the search to, for example

• locations
• online resources
• Field
• Language of the publication
• specific years of publication

to narrow down your search.

You can also filter the results according to these and other criteria after you have completed your search.

The "advanced search" offers the option of narrowing down the search, for example to

• full texts
• texts reviewed by experts (peer-reviewed).

You can also extend the search by

• searching for related terms
• Search full texts of articles.

Please note: 
It is possible that you will not get any hits when searching with the author and title of the article, even though the journal in which the article was published is available. Please also search using the title of the journal or anthology. This may save you an inter-library loan.

Bibliographic references to articles and books that are not in the holdings of the RheinMain University and State Library are also displayed. Further steps are then necessary to obtain literature.

Databases that are not yet included in the Search Gateway can be accessed via the "Further information sources" tab.

Several search terms are automatically linked by "and". You can also search with

Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)

• AND
  Search terms linked with AND must all occur
• OR
  An OR operation between two search terms results in hits in which one or both words are found (example: single OR single)
• NOT
  NOT before a search term excludes hits that contain this term

Wildcards (*, ?)

The end of the word can be left open during the search

• * replaces any number of characters
• ? replaces exactly one character

Phrases (exact word sequence: "...")

• "Fuel cell"
• When searching for authors, the phrase search leads specifically to the result ("Stephen W. Smith")

The titles in the hit list "Articles & more" contain the note "Examine availability". Clicking on this link opens a screen which, depending on the type of publication searched for (print book, eBook, journal article, ...), provides access to the document, indicates the location of the document or makes suggestions on how to proceed.

If the Search Gateway does not work, please use our conventional online catalog. You can also use this to search our entire collection. It is not possible to search for journal articles and other database content.