Perhaps your professor suggested an article or you found a book cited in an article and you want to read it. When you have a specific item and you want to see if our library has it, you conduct a known item search.
Enter the author, title (best to use quotation marks around it to search the exact words), or other citation information into the OneSearch search engine and locate the article directly. You can even use Advanced Search in OneSearch and select the dropdown fields to get even closer to the result.
This type of search is different from a topic search which involves searching for resources about a particular topic or subject area, the kind of search associated with entering keywords or controlled vocabulary words and finding relevant results.
For more detailed information, review Executing Known Item Searching in the Library posted on the homepage of the library website.