Perception and Utilization of Single Window Search Tool for Conducting Literature Search: A Case Study

This paper focuses on understanding the perception and utilization of the ‘Single Window Search' tool at the KMC Health Sciences Library of Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), Manipal, India for conducting a literature search. A structured questionnaire is distributed to the participants of the workshop conducted on a single-window search tool by the KMC Health Sciences Library to get data. The study identified that the single-window search tool is extremely helpful for the users for conducting a literature search for teaching, learning, research and patient care activities. Respondents of the study perceived that the single-window search tool helps to use the library resources effectively, saves their time in conducting a literature search and easy to search through multiple online databases/journals platforms subscribed by the library.