FRELIP’s discovery search — at search.frelip.org, powered by the open-source VuFind — is the platform’s finding tool. One simple box searches across the whole collection of books, articles, and digital resources, and ranks the most useful results first. It’s where most research journeys begin.

When you need to find something specific — sources for an essay, research on a question, a particular book — discovery search is the tool you reach for. It gives you the one-box simplicity you’re used to, over scholarly material you can actually trust. (There’s a whole FRELIP course on using it well; this is the quick overview.)

What discovery search does for you

  • Searches everything at once — books, articles, and digital items in a single query.
  • Ranks by relevance — the most useful results rise to the top.
  • Filters with facets — narrow by date, format, subject, or full-text availability in a click.
  • Links you to the text — straight through to the resource, with open access foregrounded.
Its place in the journey
Discovery search is step one of nearly every research task: it’s how you find. The guides help you start, the feeds keep you current, and the courses teach you to evaluate and cite — but it usually begins here, with a search. Master this one tool and the whole platform opens up.

Trustworthy, and built to be free

The quiet point of FRELIP’s search is access: it’s free, it leans heavily on open-access content, and it’s built on open-source software — so the power of a serious research tool reaches people a paywalled system would shut out. That’s the mission in a single search box.

Try this
Run one search at search.frelip.org on a topic you care about, then narrow it with a filter or two. In two minutes you’ll see how the platform’s finding tool works — and why it’s usually the first stop.

🔗 Try it on FRELIP: search.frelip.org — the discovery search

When you’re not sure where to even begin a subject, a different tool gives you a head start. On to Research Guides (SubjectsPlus).

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