Search Healey Library Resources including articles, books, ebooks, journals, maps, videos and recordings.
How do I limit my search results?
Using Limits
This box will walk you through many of the options you have to limit your search results. All of these options can be found on the left side of the UMBrella search interface. Scroll through to see how you can make your search more precise.
Include results outside the library's subscription
By default, UMBrella only searches items owned by the Healey Library or available through open access. If you have trouble finding enough relevant results, or need to do a more comprehensive search, check this box to include items in your search that you can request through InterLibrary Loan.
Sort By
This limit will give you the option to choose how your results are organized by selecting which results are displayed first. The options are:
Relevance - The results determined to be most relevant are displayed first (based on its relevance algorithm)
Date-newest - The most recent items are displayed first
Date-oldest - The least recent items are displayed first
Author - The results are organized alphabetically by the author's name
Title - The results are organized alphabetically by the title of the document
Availability
Click on a category under this option to show only those resources.
Available in the Library - books and other physical materials located in the Healey Library
Full Text Online - limit results to articles, books, videos, etc that are accessible online
Open Access - free online resources that do not require UMass Boston credentials
Peer-reviewed Journals - limit results to articles published in peer-reviewed (scholarly) journals
Any category you include/exclude will appear under “Active Filters” at the top of the Tweak My Results area. Categories that are included will be in black letters, while categories that are excluded will be in red letters with a line through them. Remove any category included or excluded by clicking on the X in the appropriate bubble.
Material Type
Use this filter to identify the type(s) of materials you want. Some useful options include:
Books
Articles
Newspaper Articles
Video
Reference Entries
To exclude a “Material Type” category, hover over the option and click on the red slashed checkmark that appears to the right of the option. A “Material Type” option will not appear if there are no corresponding items in your results.
Publication Date
Specify a publication date range for your search results by using the scrolling arrows next to the dates or clicking in the date boxes to type in different years.
NOTE: The dates listed do not necessarily represent options present in your search results. In other words, there may not actually be a document from the year 1700 in the example above. This limit works best to specify which date range you want, i.e. materials published within the last ten years.
Subject
This allows you to limit results by choosing a subject for your search. The subject area is a great place to look for additional words/phrases that you can use in your searches.
NOTE: These subjects are drawn from several different databases and are not standardized, so you may limit your results to one particular source (such as materials from a medical database) if you select certain subjects.
Author/Creator
This option allows you to select results by a particular author/creator. Keep in mind that this may include corporate/organizational authors, and not just specific individuals.
Journal Title
This option allows you to limit your results to articles from a particular journal.
Collection & Location
These are options to limit results by the location or source of an item:
Collection - Allows you to limit your results by particular publishers, databases, and source types. This limit is useful if you know you want materials from a particular source or database (ex. ERIC).
Location - Allows you to choose/exclude different library locations. This feature is useful if you are looking for an item shelved in a particular area (ex. Curriculum Stacks, Reserves)
Language
This option can allows you to specify which language your material is written in. The language options displayed only lists the languages found in your search results.