EBSCO Host databases and full-text online journals

Publisher: EBSCO

• Name of service: EBSCO Host• Service type: online databases of

journals and other learned content (CDs available for all institutes)

Content available

• EBSCO through PERI provides access to 8 databases of information which can be searched individually, in selected groups or altogether.

• The databases provide access to just over 16,000 abstracted and indexed journals from all branches of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities. Over 10,000 of these are available as full text with over 4,000 of these being fully peer-reviewed.

Content continued…• The Databases which you can access under the

PERI programme are:– (i) Academic Search Premier, (ii) Business Source

Premier, (iii) ERIC, (iv) Masterfile Premier, (v) Newspaper Source, (vi) Health Source Nursing Academic, (vii) Health Source Consumer Edition, (viii) Medline

• Subject strengths– good coverage of most branches of social sciences and

humanities– strong business coverage, also : medicine (Medline)– dedicated newspaper database, kept separate from peer-

reviewed content

Getting started…

• Load EBSCO homepage

• Login using

http://search.epnet.com/

Select the databases that you are interested in

searching and working with. The more databases

you select, the larger the body of data you will

work with.

It is strongly advised that you familiarise yourself

with each of the databases—more information is

available in the brief descriptions on this page or

by following the links to further information.

The abstract of the paper in

question is presented with links

through to the full text articles

You can also add this item to your “folder” for

later viewing, print the abstract and/or the full

text item, email the reference and/or full text

article to a given email address, or save the

reference and/or full text article.

The search page presents you with a simple

search interface – enter your search terms in the

box provided. A useful start (before searching) is

to read through the “Search Tips”

Link to your own library !

Using standard PDF file functionality, you can

save the file (by clicking on the floppy disk icon)

or print the file (by clicking the printer icon). You

can also change the resolution of the PDF,

move between pages, search for words within

the PDF file (using the binoculars icon), etc.

Further reading

• Librarians help– Administering usage stats etc– http://www.epnet.com/thisTopic.php?marke

tID=1&topicID=19 [URL updated Jan.2006]

• Lots of help documents available by – clicking on ‘Customer Service and Technical

Support’

– then choosing ‘Training and Documentation’ tab