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What it is/What's in it

 

EBSCOhost is a group of databases that index and provide full text for thousands of journal articles.  Some Ebsco databases, such as Academic Search Premier, cover all subjects; other Ebsco databases, such as Health Source or Regional Business News, have a specialized subject focus.

 

TIPS:

 

·         To retrieve scholarly articles, limit your search to peer-reviewed.

 

·         If you need an article immediately, limit your search to Full Text articles or articles held at Elizabethtown.

 

·         Click on “Request on Interlibrary Loan” if the article is not available and you would like to request it from another library.

 

·         Rather than using the Default Fields search, use the pull-down index to select a more focused way of searching, such as People or Subject Terms.

 

·         When using the pull-down People or Author index, put the last name first, separated from the first name by a comma, i.e., Tyson, Mike.

 

·         Use the pull-down Subject Terms index to find articles about a topic, rather than articles that only contain the topic words.  Subject searching is more focused searching.

 

·         If you are having difficulty selecting appropriate search terms, click on the green Subject Terms button:

 

o   Type possible terms in the Browse For box.

o   Click on relevancy ranked and click on Browse

o   Put a check mark in front of the term you want.

o   Click on Add

o   The selected terms will be transferred to the Find box, click on Search. 

 

·         To search a word with a variety of endings, add an * 

 brother* --  retrieves brothers, brotherly, brotherliness, brotherhood, etc

 

·         Within a citation, click on words highlighted in blue for links to other articles by the same author, about the same subject, in the same journal, etc. 

 

·         To find what articles have cited a particular author, article, or journal, click on the green Cited References button and fill in the appropriate information.

 

·         To retain copies of your Ebsco searches for later reference, click on Sign In to My Ebscohost and create your own individual Ebsco login.  

 

EBSCOhost contains the following files; choose the ones that are appropriate for your search.

 

Academic Search Premier                   Primary Search

Business Source Elite                          Middle Search Plus

Regional Business News                     Clinical Pharmacology

Health Source                                     Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews

Newspaper Source                              Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE)

ERIC                                                   Cochrane Controlled Trials Register  

EBSCO Animals                                 Communication & Mass Media Complete

                       

 

The periodicals list - http://atoz.ebsco.com/home.asp?id=town– contains links to titles which are available full-text in EbscoHost.

                                                                                               

 

 

 

 

 

Revised 10/05

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