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Searching within
EBSCO databases
Urszula Nowicka
Training Specialist
EBSCO Information Service
unowicka@ebsco.com
Phone: (+48) 505 333 058
Agenda
Theoretical part:
1. Content of the databases
Practical part:
1. Basic and advanced search
2. Creating alerts
3. Personal account
4. Publications search
5. Using subject terms
The basic EBSCO package
offered under the national license
EBSCO offers online access to the basic package of
12 databases mostly in English
Full Text databases
• Academic Search Complete
• Master File Premier
• Health Source-Nursing/Academic Edition
• Health Source-Consumer Edition
• AHFS Consumer Medication Information
• Newspaper Source
Bibliographic databases
• Medline
• ERIC
• GreenFILE
• Library, Information Science& Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
• Teacher Reference Center
• European Views of Americas (1493-1750)
+ 3 databases bought aside from the national licence
eBook Academic Collection PsycARTICLES Business Source Complete
with Regional Business News
The World's Most
Comprehensive,
Scholarly Full-Text
Database for
Multidisciplinary
Research
Subjects
Full-Text
Journals
Full-Text
Peer-Reviewed
Journals
Academic Search
Complete more than 8,800 more than 7,700
Access to more than
13,600 indexed and abstracted journals
and other valuable resources as
periodicals, reports, books.
Overview
Examples of full-text publications
Topical Video Content
Academic Search Complete offers access to video
content from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency.
• collection of more than 60,000 videos
• updated monthly
• footage from 1930 to the present
• covers a wide variety of topics
Content:
Full-text databases
for medical sciences,
nursing and health research
full text from for more than 435 journals
current health-related pamphlets
110 full-text health reference books
more than 18,800 Clinical Reference Systems reports
Pediatric nursing
Critical care
Mental health
Nursing management
Medical law
AIDS & cancer
Diabetes
Drugs and alcohol
Aging
Fitness
Nutrition and dietetics
Children's and women’s health
Subjects
Examples of the publications
AHFS Consumer Medication
Information
Trusted source and recognized standard for
information about
medicines
AHFS is published by
the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
Full Text for Leading
National (U.S.), International
and Regional Newspapers
Television and Radio News Transcripts
Limited access
Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art
Your Source for the Superior Research
Published in APA Journals
The database contains
more than 191,000 peer-reviewed articles from more than 110 journals
published by the American Psychological Association
and affiliated organizations
• Current full-text journal
articles written by
esteemed researchers from
across psychology and the
behavioral and social
sciences
• Many journal issues going
back to Volume 1, Issue 1
Content of the database
Updated weekly!
Examples of Journals
Limited access
Faculty of Economics
and Management
User Experience
The World's Definitive Scholarly Full-Text
Business Database.
Indexing and abstracts and full text are available back
as far as 1886.
Subjects:
• marketing and management
• economy
• finances and accountancy
• business
• trade and many other areas
Content
more than 3,800 full-text journals, including nearly 2,000 peer-reviewed
more than 40,000 author profiles
more than 820 books and monographs
case studies
more than 1.1 million company profiles
country economic reports
industry reports
seminar videos from Harvard Business School
more than 2,500 market research reports
SWOT analyses
Supplemental access to Regional Business News
Wyszukiwanie w bazach EBSCO
Examples of Journals
search.ebscohost.com
SYMBOL MEANING EXAMPLE
“ “ Searching for all words, maintaining the exact order
„Internet addiction in
children”
* Masking a fragment of the word. The search words have the same core
Child*
Econom*
? Masking a single letter Wom?n Ne?t
Organi?ation
# Used with different spellings of the same word
Colo#r
1. Analysis of the search request
2. Identification the relevant keywords
3. Determining the appropriate synonyms for selected keywords
4. Determining the relationship between those synonyms
5. Selecting the databases that will be searched
6. Starting the search using the chosen strategy
7. The result evaluation
Effective information search
Thank you for your attention
Urszula Nowicka
Training Specialist
EBSCO Information Service
unowicka@ebsco.com
Phone: (+48) 505 333 058
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