To improve your search experience and gain access to advanced features, always begin by clicking the Sign In button pictured below. 

Once you have signed in to LibrarySearch you can: 

• Update your profile to be sure you will receive important library notifications
• Check due dates, place holds, review item requests, and pay fines
• Renew your borrowed items 
• View your search history
• Access saved search results and citations
• Create alerts to keep up to date on new publications

Please note: LibrarySearch times out after 30 minutes of inactivity, automatically signing you out and resetting itself to the default search page.

Remote Full Text Access

Remote access to the University of Toronto Libraries' digital collections is only available to current students, faculty, and University staff. Access to e-books, full text articles, databases, and other digital tools require users to log in via the University of Toronto's web login service. If you forget this before you start your session, you will be directed to log in as soon as required.

Find Specific Titles

To search for an exact article, search with quotations around your title phrase. See an article title search demonstration. 

Request an Article via Interlibrary Loan (RACER)

If the library does not have the journal you need electronically or in print, you can request a specific article from another institution through our interlibrary loan service, RACER. Note that you should only request an article through RACER if it is not available electronically or in print through U of T.

There are two ways to request an article through RACER, but before you can request items, you must register for a RACER account.

1. Request the item from the Get it! UTL landing page

The Get it! UTL landing page gives a few steps to locate full text. If you have already tried to locate the item in the U of T catalog with no luck, you can follow the link to request it on RACER. This should auto-populate the request form with the article information. Double check to make sure the information is correct, and that the ISSN number is included. You can locate the ISSN number of a journal by searching for the title in Ulrich's Web.

2. Fill in a Blank Request Form

If you navigated away from the Get it! UTL landing page, you can still request the article by filling out a Blank Request Form on RACER.

• Log into RACER
• Select the "Blank Request Form" option from the menu on the left
• Fill in the form with the complete citation, including:
  • Article title, author, and page numbers
  • Journal name, volume, issue, and year
  • Journal ISSN number

Google Scholar searches scholarly articles, Google Books and quasi-scholarly material, harnessing the power of a Google search. Helpful for citation searching: it allows you to link to works that cite the articles in your results list (click on Cited by).

Note: don't pay for any articles! Go back to the library to get the full-text of your sources.