EBSCO DATABASES (EBSCOhost)

Ebsco provides access to over 30 different full text databases to help you with your assignments and research. On the next slide are the descriptions of a FEW databases you may find useful:

Academic Search Premier The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis.
Business Source Premier provides full text back to 1965 and searchable cited references back as far as 1998. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database is updated on a daily basis.
CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,737 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982.
Computer Source provides researchers with the latest information and current trends in high technology. This database offers full text for nearly 300 publications and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 publications.
Newspaper Source provides selected full text for nearly 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. This database is updated daily.

For today’s exercise we are going to use the Ebsco database Academic Search Premier.
Please open another window of Internet Explorer and access the Terra Library Web Page selecting Ebsco databases, Academic Search (Full Text), click on the on-campus link. In order to access this database off-campus, you would click on the Off-Campus access link for this database and then follow the directions. You can also access Academic Search Premier from the OhioLINK Web Page select OhioLINK Databases by name. Click on the "A" and then search for and click on Academic Search Premier (EBSCO Host).
The search page for this database has a Find box in which words can be combined with AND, OR, or NOT. The search is set to Default Fields, which searches the author, title, subjects and abstract of each record.

Click in the Find box and type Peru* (The asterisk is a truncation symbol that will search for Peru, Peruvian, Peru’s or any other word beginning with the stem Peru). Then type and election*. Click on the Search button and the database should retrieve at least 420 records.
Click on the title for the record Notice that this article has the full text attached to the article citation. Double click on the link and your research is finished. Because this article is a PDF file, you will need an Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer in order to read it. If you don't have the Adobe Acrobat Reader you can download it for free from .
Close the window that holds the full text of the article to return to the database entry for this article. Click on the Result List link to return to the list of articles. Scroll down to the record . Click on the HTML Full Text link to see the full text as an HTML page. Click New Search return to the search menu and to clear your previous search.

In the Find box, type pet therapy and click on Search. You should retrieve at least 35 records. Click on the title for the record Puppy Love. Look at the list of subjects that were assigned to this article. Click on the subject, PETS--Therapeutic Use. This time you should retrieve at least 70 records. All of these articles were assigned the subject PETS--Therapeutic Use while the records retrieved in the first search simply included the phrase and may, or may not, be about pet therapy.
Here’s one last trick when doing research. If you do not have time to hunt out articles look closely for the second option under the Find box. If you check this box your search will ONLY produce full text articles.

To select which records you want to print, email or save, click on the Add folder icon to the right of the desired records in the results list. Go ahead and click on several records on the page of results. Notice that each folder icon becomes an open folder labeled Added. When you have chosen several records, click on the number of the next result page that you'll find at either the top or bottom of the result list. Click on the Add folder icon for several of these records. At the top of the results list you'll find a link that says Folder Has Items. Click on the Folder Has Items link to see the list of saved records. Notice that you can click on the X button to delete any record from the list if you no longer want it to be saved or click on the Remove All button to delete all of the records.
To print these records, click on the Print link at the top of the result list. The database will display the Print Manager page that allows you to indicate if you wish to print additional citation details and abstract and/or print the full text of the articles when available. Click the Print button to print the citations and/or articles if you wish. When you're done, you can click on the Back link to return to the list of articles you saved.

To email the records, click on the E-mail link at the top of the result list. The database will display the E-mail Manager page that allows you the same choices as the Print Manager, plus the choice to attach a PDF file when available. The E-mail Manager also requires an email address and a subject line for the email message. Fill in these boxes and click on the Send button to send yourself an email of the saved records. When you're finished, click on the Continue link to return to the list of saved records.
Click on the Back button to return to the page of saved records.
Need More Help?
At the top of most screens in Academic Search Premier there is a Help link. If you click on it, the database will open a new window that includes an index of their help pages.