Welcome to EbscoHost.

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Welcome to EbscoHost. This is the default search
screen.
Lets start by pointing out some important
features on this screen.
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Search box
You are doing a basic keyword search by default,
but you can also search by subject.
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You will be searching in the database called
Academic Search Premier unless you use the drop
down menu to change it.
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There is also an Advanced Search tab to look for
something very specific.
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You may want to use some of the limiters and
expanders in your search.
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Show only articles that are available on the
computer.
Show only articles that come from academic
journals.
Show articles only from a specified
magazine/journal.
Show only articles that are the length of the
range you select.
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Look for synonyms and plural forms of your search
words.
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Lets begin with a basic Keyword search.
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Think of some words, terms, or phrases that are
significant to your topic.
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school violence
Lets do a search on school violence. We are
putting a checkmark in the Full Text box so we
only see articles that we can print off right
now. We are also adding some date restrictions.
2002
2006
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We found 513 articles that contain the phrase
school violence and were published between 2002
and 2006.
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Each article is listed separately, with complete
citation information.
Author (if there is one)
Journal or Newspaper name
Title
Date
Page numbers
Volume and issue
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If the actual text of the article is available
online, you will see an icon telling you so.
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HTML full text means this article contains all
the words, but not any charts, tables or
photographs that were available in the print
publication.
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HTML full text looks like this.
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PDF Full Text means this article is an exact copy
of the original print publication. It can take a
long time to load if you are at home using
dial-up.
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PDF full text looks like this.
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Our search produced 513 articles. Thats way too
many to look through. There are a couple of
strategies we can use to narrow down our results.
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We can choose to see only those articles from
scholarly journals, or just the ones from
magazines, or just the ones that come from
newspapers.
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182 articles from our previous results come from
Academic (scholarly) Journals.
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SOME OF THE BEST AND MOST CUTTING-EDGE RESEARCH
IS PUBLISHED IN SCHOLARLY JOURNALS.
Articles from scholarly journals are written by
experts for experts using technical language to
report research. Authorities in the field
examine the articles for quality and soundness of
research before acceptance for publication. This
review process is called peer-reviewed or
refereed.
Rely more heavily on these for upper level
research that depends on experts in the field and
when your instructor requires research from
scholarly journals.
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SOME OF THE MOST CURRENT AND NEWSWORTHY
INFORMATION IS PUBLISHED IN MAGAZINES.
This is a broad category that includes

• News/Opinion magazines like Time, New Republic
  and Newsweek

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• Popular magazines like People Weekly and
  Psychology Today

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• Trade magazines like Beverage World and The
  Cattleman, written to give practical info and
  current trends to people in a particular industry.

Use articles from magazines to get the latest
social, economic and political news, or to track
trends, or to get background on a topic.
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To further narrow our results we can add one of
these suggested subjects to our original search
terms by clicking on them.
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We now have 9 articles from academic journals
that contain the words school violence and are
about High School students.
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Look at how the database added the subject we
clicked on to the words we already had in the box.
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school violence AND DE High school students
The keywords we started with are connected to the
subject words we clicked on with the capitalized
word AND.
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Search tip Use the
Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT
Boolean searching is named after George Boole, a
British mathematician (1815-1864)
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AND
school violence AND DE High school students
Use AND to tell the database to find articles
that contain both the search terms. Articles in
this search will contain the words school
violence plus be about High school students.
Using AND will give you fewer results. Search
Examples frogs AND toads
medical AND malpractice
global warming AND California
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OR
school violence OR bullying
Use OR to tell the database to find articles that
contain either of the words. In this search the
computer will find articles that contain school
violence and other articles that contain the word
bullying. You are saying articles with one or
the other are okay. Using OR will give you more
results. OR is usually used to connect synonyms
or variant spellings.
Search Examples ocean OR sea
Koran OR Quran
60s OR 1960s OR sixties
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NOT
school violence NOT bullying
Use NOT to exclude words. This is typically
done after performing a search and determining
you do not want to see articles containing
particular words or phrases. Be careful with
this one. Using NOT might eliminate articles
that contain valuable information. Pets NOT dogs
will eliminate any articles that have the word
dogs, even if the articles contain good stuff
about other pets. Search Examples dungeons NOT
dragons
medical NOT malpractice
mouse NOT Mickey
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school violence AND DE High school students
The subject words we clicked on have DE in front,
have quotation marks added, and one of the words
capitalized.
What does all that added stuff mean?
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All those extras are a way of writing in a code
that tells the database you are searching by
subject, not by keyword.
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Keyword searching means you are asking the
computer to find articles that have the exact
words you typed in the search box.
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But keyword searchingmay get you some puzzling
results. Did you mean dating a person, or
dating a fossil?
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Subject searching means you are asking the
computer to find articles about the words you
typed into the search box.
A subject search is a good way to search for
concepts that may be expressed by a large number
of synonyms, or that can have multiple meanings
like the word dating.
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For example, if you ask the database to search
for the keyword teenager, it will find all the
articles with the word teenager, whether or not
the article is about teenagers.
But it will not find other forms of the keyword,
or synonyms, or related terms.
teenagers
teen
youth
juvenile
minor
Young adult
Young people
adolescent
puberty
adolescence
teenybopper
Even though the authors of articles may have used
different words and terms to discuss the same
topic, the use of a single subject term makes it
possible for searchers to access all of them.
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But how do you know which word is the one this
database uses?
teenagers
teen
juvenile
youth
minor
Young adult
Young people
adolescent
adolescence
puberty
teenybopper
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One way is to look at the subjects that come up
on the left as you enter search words. The
database is trying to help you out by suggesting
some official subject terms that you can add to
your search by clicking on them.
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But sometimes you need more choices than the ones
the computer tries to anticipate. What if you are
looking for dating fossils instead of dating
people?
Try this scroll through the results until you
find an article that seems to fit and open it.
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Take a look at all the underlined words that are
being used to describe this article. You can
re-run your search using any of those words that
seem to apply to your topic. Just click on
one of the underlined words (linked) and you will
be taken to other articles that use the same
descriptions.
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You now have a whole new set of suggested
subjects and articles that you can use to get the
results you need.
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OR You can go straight to the listing of
official words the database uses by clicking on
the tab labeled Subject Terms.
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Type in your keyword and see what comes up.
dating
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Here is a partial list of the official terms to
use for different kinds of dating. The subject
term GEOCHRONOMETRYwill search for articles about
dating fossils.
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Search Tip
Subject term searching may work best when 
Your topic is well-established in the
literature. You anticipate a large amount of
information on your topic. Your topic has
synonyms.
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BUT keyword searching may work best when  Your
topic is new and/or unusual. You anticipate a
small amount of information on your topic. Your
topic has few synonyms.
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Try running your search using both ways.
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Once you get some results that you are happy
with, scroll through and open up an article that
look promising.
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You can print the article
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Pick your citation style before clicking the
Print button.
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Your citation is formatted for you. You can make
any adjustments (like double-spacing) or anything
else your instructor requires. Just cut and
paste into your word processor.
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Or e-mail it home.
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Research article
Pick a citation format.
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OR collect articles in a folder and go through
the interesting articles later. This is a
temporary folder it goes away when you log off.
To make a permanent folder, ask the library
staff to show you how.
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Remember, you will be searching in the database
called Academic Search Premier unless you use the
drop down menu to change it.
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Why would you want to change databases?
Some of the databases have articles that are not
in Academic Search Premier.
Searching a database that only contains articles
about the subject area you are searching makes it
easier to find what you are looking for and to be
super-specific.
Some of the databases are geared to different
audiences (e.g., grade level, professionals).
Some of the databases are in a different language.
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EBSCO Animals Provides in-depth information on a
variety of topics relating to animals. The
database consists of indexing, abstracts, and
full text records describing the nature and
habitat of familiar animals.
Health Source Consumer Edition This database
is the richest collection of consumer health
information available to libraries worldwide,
providing information on many health topics
including the medical sciences, food sciences and
nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general
health. Health Source Consumer Edition features
searchable full text for nearly 150 journals.
This database is updated on a daily basis.
Professional Development Collection Designed for
professional educators, this database provides a
highly specialized collection of nearly 550 high
quality education journals, including more than
350 peer-reviewed titles. This database also
contains more than 200 educational
reports.Professional Development Collection is
the most comprehensive collection of full text
education journals in the world.
Business Source Complete This is the world's
definitive scholarly business database, providing
the ultimate collection of bibliographic and full
text content. Business Source Complete contains
far more active, peer-reviewed, business related
journals than any other database currently
available. As part of the comprehensive coverage
offered by this database, indexing and abstracts
for the most important scholarly business
journals back to 1886 are included. In addition
to the searchable cited references provided for
more than 1,200 journals.
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Fuente Academica Fuente Academica is a unique
collection of scholarly academic journals from
renowned Latin American and Spanish publishers.
This database provides full text coverage
(including PDF) for nearly 200 scholarly Spanish
language journals. Content is provided in Spanish
from respected publishers worldwide.
Texas Reference Center Texas Reference Center
includes more than 80 full text journals and
books about Texas history, ethnic cultural
diversity, gender studies, literature, public
health, business as well as home garden and
sports leisure. The database contains
biographies portraying famous historical and
contemporary Texans such as George Herbert Walker
Bush, Lady Bird Johnson, Dan Moody, Susanna
Dickinson and Sam Houston. Also available in the
Texas Reference Center is the Spanish-language
newspaper El Sol de Texas with Texas and national
news coverage. This EBSCOhost database is updated
weekly.
Humanities International Complete Humanities
International Complete is a comprehensive
database of humanities content, providing full
text of hundreds of journals, books and other
published sources from around the world. Produced
by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO
Publishing), this database includes all data from
American Humanities Index and Humanities
International Index (over 1.6 million records)
plus unique full text content.
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Click on the tab labeled Choose databases to see
the whole list. There are 41. Check it out for
yourself.
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Use EBSCO Image Collection to access over 180,000
photographs and images including current events,
sports, maps, entertainment, the sciences and
historical interests.
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