Library and Technology

How Do I find ARTICLES using EBSCOhost Web?

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EBSCOhost is a Subscription Service, a vendor who sells a collection of online periodical databases that contain citations, abstracts and full text for magazine and journal articles in social sciences, humanities, education, business and general subjects. 

 

PERIODICAL – newspaper, magazine, journal, etc. published at regular intervals

MAGAZINE – periodical intended for general readers

JOURNAL – periodical for professionals and students, which usually appears

four times a year; articles contain original research or interpretations of data and texts. 

 

Databases include:

·        Academic Search Elite—This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 1,850 scholarly journals, including nearly 1,300 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. 

·        Business Source Elite—full text coverage of scholarly business, management and economics journals. 

·        ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center,  provides full text of more than 2200 digests along with citations and abstracts from educational and education-related journals. 

·        Health Source - Consumer Edition—access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals. 

·        Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition--provides nearly 600 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines and features abstracts and indexing for nearly 650 journals.  

·        MasterFILE Premier--designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,950 general reference publications with full text information. 

There are other Databases including Alt HealthWatch, Corporate Resource Net, Regional Business News, MEDLINE, Middle Search Plus, Primary Search, etc.  Click on CHOOSE DATABASES and scroll down to see the entire list.

 

 

How do I get to EBSCOhost? 

·        Go to  Electronic Access to Articles and Online Search Tools , found on the our Online Searches page EbscoHost is in the Quick Links at the top of the page.  Click EbscoHost  .  Note: To access all databases from home, connect to the Proxy Server  http://ezproxy.uwc.edu

·        Click EBSCOhost Web.

 

How do I search?

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Note:  For search tips, click  Help (in the upper right corner). 

·        Choose Database.   Scroll through the list to find the one most appropriate for your topic. (No idea?  Academic Search Elite at the top is a good default.)

·        Click on the title of the database.  To change databases, click on CHOOSE DATABASES and click on the database title you want to search.  (To search several at once check the boxes at the left and click on Continue. 

Keep your terms simple.  Use one or two words or a common phrase. Type terms. 

Ex.  Find:     education and minorities

                   “equal rights amendment”

                   gender and discrimination

                   “affirmative action” and universities

                          

At the end of each citation if you see Full Text, click to read the entire article.  If it is not full text, click Find it! to see if other databases have it or if the UW-BC Library owns the title by reading Holding information:

 

 

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