Online Research Tools

Search Tools - Search Tools is a customizable portal to UM library databases, indexes, networked electronic resources, e-journals, web resources, and catalogs. You can find full-text and index databases related to your research here. Then you can go directly to a databases for in-depth searching, or search across several databases at once.

Mirlyn - Mirlyn is the University of Michigan's online library catalog. Search here to find books and e-books, videos, CDs, web resources, journals and e-journals (as well as many other things) that the library owns. Use Mirlyn to make requests to have materials delivered to you from elsewhere on campus.

Current Research@University of Michigan - A digital library of dissertations and theses by the University of Michigan. Preview pages and full-text downloads are available for works published after 1996.

Library Guides - This page provides central access to research guides developed throughout the library system. You can find advice on using online databases and various types of software, and on doing research in particular subject areas or with particular types of media.