About SURF

SURF searches most of the materials you have access to through the SU Libraries. It can be used to find books, journals, and articles, whether physical or electronic, as well as DVDs, CDs, and other physical materials. It's a useful tool to quickly find resources for your research, but it's not able to retrieve everything available to you. SURF pulls its search results from almost all of our collections — the physical and electronic items we purchase directly — as well as most of the content available in our licensed databases like Academic Search Ultimate, JSTOR, ScienceDirect and more.

If you can't find what you need in SURF, try searching individual databases listed in our A-Z Database List that seem like a good fit for your topic, or search for archival material in our Finding Aid Portal. WorldCat can be used to search the collections of libraries worldwide for physical materials that can be requested through our Interlibrary Loan service.