Tutorial Guide no. 28 EBSCO ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER AND USE OF SUBJECT TERMS

TutorialGuide no. 28

EBSCO ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER AND USE OF SUBJECT TERMS

How to search EBSCO data bases

using Subject Terms

For this experience select EBSCO Multidisciplinary

Academic Search Premier

To access, go to http://www.usuniversity.edu/index.html

• 1. From home page, look for the bar across the page, click on STUDENT SERVICES or look for Library, under STUDENT SERVICES.

• 2. Select US University Online full text databases

• 3. Scroll down to EBSCO MULTIDISCIPLINARY (Academic Search Premier) –

http://www.usuniversity.edu/index.html

Or look for Library, under STUDENT SERVICES at the bottom of HOME page

Select US University Online full text databases

Select General Education/Liberal Studies

4. At the bottom of the page you will find the EBSCO MULTIDISCIPLINARY (Academic

Search Premier) link.

5. For ID & Password, go to your personal US 5. For ID & Password, go to your personal US University e-mail or e-mail the Librarian & ask University e-mail or e-mail the Librarian & ask

for them.for them.

In order to know the vocabulary used to identify the document, we need to search the

Subject Terms. Click on Subject Terms.

The words to be searched are:“plagiarism” and “writing essays.” Let’s search PLAGIARISM

first and click the ADD button.

You click the search button and find results or see how plagiarism is divided.

When you select “plagiarism,” you obtain all the terms under it. Take a look. Are you

interested?

Then you select the terms by clicking their boxes, as many as you need, and when done, click ADD.

All the terms you selected will be seen in the SEARCH box. In this case only “plagiarism.”

Now let’s search WRITING ESSAYS in the BROWSE box. From the results you select as many as you need.

On the second page at the bottom we found COLLEGE STUDENTS’ WRITING; click on it.

Click the boxes that meet your interest and ADD to the SEARCH box.

After you click the ADD box, the search term will appear in the SEARCH box, as well as the results.

To conclude our initial search, add the term PLAGIARISM in the second box.

Select for both terms the TI TITLE option and click SEARCH.

Probably the system will ask you to use the SMART TEXT SEARCHING tool; click on it.

I will limit the results (188) by selecting FULL TEXT, SCHOLARLY JOURNALS & the years

2005 to 2010. Click Update Results.

Final results=26; all are relevant.

Once you register into your EBSCO HOST (Guide 24), you can select the articles you want to add to your folder. Click

on the title to see more information.

You can open the full text (PDF/HTML) version, as well as see how to cite it, e-mail it to you yourself, print it, save it, and learn more about the author or

about paraphrasing it.

In this case the full text is an HTLM, with no pages. See in bold the search terms used.

Remember to check your APA Manual, 6th Edition; I can see changes that need to made

in presenting the title. Do you?

Remember to check SUBJECT TERMS not only for Academic Search Premier, but for all the

EBSCO databases.

Your results will be relevant and VERY DIFFERENT THAN when just

using your own vocabulary.