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Library Research TutorialWilliam Hessel Library |
| Academic Search Elite | Full text for more than 2,000 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covers all subject disciplines. |
| Business Source Elite | Full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 500 peer-reviewed business publications. |
| ERIC | Educational Resource Information Center contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals. |
| Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition | More than 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. |
| Newspaper Source | Selected full text for 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. |
| Clinical Pharmacology | Up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs. |
| Regional Business News | Full text coverage for regional business publications. Coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. |
Where is EBSCOhost located on the library homepage?
One way to locate EBSCOhost is by clicking on the bulleted Magazines, Newspapers, & Indexes link on left side of Library start page. When at that page, look for EBSCOhost Research Databases under Full-Text Databases.
Searching Academic Search Elite database.
Search techniques: [Boolean searching]:
Other search types:
Wildcard (?)
To use the wildcard, enter your search terms and replace each unknown character with a ?. EBSCOhost finds all citations of that word with the ? replaced by a letter.
For example, type ne?t to find all citations containing neat, nest or next. EBSCOhost does not find net because the wildcard replaces a single character. Truncation (*)
To use truncation, enter the root of a search term and replace the ending with an *. EBSCOhost finds all forms of that word.
For example, type comput* to find the words computer or computing. Near Operator (N)
N5 finds the words if they are within five words of one another regardless of the order in which they appear.
For example, type tax N5 reform to find results that would match tax reform as well as reform of income tax. Within Operator (W)
In the following example, W8 finds the words if they are within eight words of one another and in the order in which you entered them.
For example, type tax W8 reform to find results that would match tax reform but would not match reform of income tax.
Phrase For example, global warming, searches both words side-by-side. You do not need to use quotations marks around the phrase.
The Library has set up Academic Search Elite so that the search screen defaults to Advanced Search. A keyed in search will look for full-text articles. The search will also cite sources to holdings the Library carries that may not be available full-text online. Related words will also be searched automatically. For example, a a search for therapy would also look for articles with the word, counseling.
Sample search: [search is looking for the phrase, elementary school teachers AND computers in the default fields which are title of article, title of magazine, subject heading, and summary.]
Search results - citation/summary of an article.
Let's take a look below at the first citation/summary. Can you locate the article title, author(s), magazine/journal title, date, volume, page number and number of pages of this source?
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The article's title is: Elementary In-Service Teacher's Use of Computers in the Elementary Classroom
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Authors are: Wilson, Janell D. Notar, Charles C., Yunker, Barbara
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Magazine is: Journal of Instructional Psychology
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Date of article: December 2003
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Volume number: 30
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Page article begins: 256
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Length of article: 8 pages
Please note that the default fields box can be changed to reflect a more specific search as noted below.
HTML full-text vs. PDF full-text, email, & print capability.
In citation number 1 the entry indicates in the Notes section that "LMC does not subscribe to this title." This means that the Library does not have the issue shelved in-house BUT under this statement notice the two full-text links:
Links
to full-text.
You have two choices to view the full-text article. One, is by HTML. After selectinig HTML, notice (below) hat you can select content links under the word, Contents, to navigate through the article (shown below) to go to that specific section within the article. You can also return to the citation, or select PDF Full Text by clicking on the available icons. The text is displayed formatted and ready for printing. A brief citation is always included at the beginning of the HTML Full Text article.
From either the citation or full text views, you can refine your search, return to the Result List, save to the folder, and print, e-mail, or save the article.
The other full-text option is PDF:
To print the article, use the print capability (icon directly above article) available from the Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can also return to the citation, any full text, or linked text by clicking on the available links. From the PDF view, you can also refine your search, return to the Result List, or e-mail the article.
- Using PDF requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. This is a free download.
- Note: HTML full-text and PDF full-text are not always both available
for each full-text article. Sometimes, only one of the options will
be available.
If you are doing research and have an instructor who wants you to locate articles from professional journals, you can check the Peer Reviewed box available under Limit Your Results:
Please note that journals are magazines. What makes a magazine a scholarly
journal or peer reviewed is that the articles have been reviewed or
refereed by the authors' peers, i.e., an editorial board of specialists
in the field of research who evaluate the content and methodology
of the author(s) work and results. Editorial board information generally
appears on the inside cover page or title page.
- For example, Newsweek is not a peer reviewed or scholarly journal. The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy is considered a scholarly or peer reviewed journal.
- Another example: Ladies' Home Journal is not a peer reviewed or scholarly journal. The publication Women's Studies is a scholarly or peer reviewed journal.
There is a link to publications available in the EBSCOhost Research Databases. The publications noted will indicate if peer reviewed.
Help link for styles of citation.
The database screens in EBSCOhost provide a help link in the upper right hand corner. Select this link and select Styles of Citation. The screen example shown below gives information for citing using APA style. Other citation styles are available for Modern Language Association (MLA), Chicago Styles, and Turabian.
Choosing to search more than one database.
EBSCOhost allows you to search more than one database at a time. For example, if you are researching a health topic and want to search Academic Search Elite AND Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, you may select both databases by checking the appropriate database box::
Note that the search screen reflects that Academic Search Elite AND Health Source:Nursing/Academic Edition databases will both be searched:
Visit EBSCOhost to practice your own searches. If your instructor has assignments about EBSCOhost, go to Blackboard.