Answered By: IESE Library
Last Updated: Jun 12, 2025     Views: 79

Discovery, the Library Services Platform Exlibris’ Alma-Primo, provides simple, one-stop searching for books and e-books, articles, digital media, and more. It also helps you manage your research.
 

Search options

  • Simple search

Global search to the library collection: Search for books, articles, databases and more.
 


 

  • Advanced search

It allows the combined search for detailed fields.

Specific search to: 

- All Items (search for books, articles, databases and more),

- Books (Find books),

- Journals (Find journals),

- EBSCO (search in EBSCO databases).

Filters to the search, by field (title, author, subject...) 

- Words included in the search ("contains", “contains exact phrase”, "start with").

- And also you can filter by Material type, Language, Date…
 


- Sorting and filtering results

It allows you to sort the search results by relevance, date, title and author.

It allows you to filter the search results by availability (online, peer review, open access, physical resources), library, date, resource type, subject, author, journal title, content provider, language and new records).
 


Why sign in?  Sign in (in the top right hand corner) with your IESE credentials in order to:

  • View full search results. (Some databases, only show results when you are signed in).
  • Unlock access to licensed digital content and expanded search results.
  • Manage your personal account and loan activity.
  • Save and organize preferred resources (create favorites lists).
  • Check real-time availability of physical items and see in which library they are held.
  • Export citations to Mendeley.

You can also use the following Discovery FAQs:

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