EBSCO for Science Research

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The Intelligent Alternative
Why go ANYWHERE else?
Research inHealth Education
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This tutorial will cover the basics in
using the Librarys online resources

• Major Topics Covered
• Find Books Journal Articles
• Database List
• APA Style the Basics
• Tutorials

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Holman Library WebPages act as an Information
Gateway

• Menu to resources and services
• Subscriptions to over 60 electronic databases
• Databases available 24 / 7
• Most provide one-click access to FT articles
• Proxy server for off campus access
• Guides to resources by division, major program
• Online support for requesting reference help,
  interlibrary loan, renewing materials,
  instruction and other service assistance

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Off Campus Access

• You must have a McKendree username and password
  to access Library resources
• Contact 537-6445 or helpdesk_at_mckendree.edu with
  support webpages at http//support.mckendree.edu
  
• Proxy server
• Authenticates McKendree affiliation
• Allows access from anywhere on the web
• Establishes compliance with licensing agreements

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Evaluating Information
Are your sources Relevant? Reliable? Objective?
Current? Appropriate? Suitable? Authoritative?
Peer reviewed!
This is where general Internet sources show
their weaknesses
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Evaluating Resources
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Evaluating Resources
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Research Process for Locating Quality Journal
Articles

• Select a topic
• Choose a database
• EBSCO Databases
• FirstSearch Databases
• Lexis-Nexis Academic
• Construct a search
• Perform a search
• Broaden and/or narrow a topic
• Recognize the full text, citation options

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You may perform more global searches throughout
our databases by using WebFeat, under Find
Books Journal Articles
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WebFeat Search Options
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WebFeat Search Results
Click on the links to retrieve the articles
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You may search individual databases one by one
or in groups without using WebFeat
Try the Database List
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Precise, definitive searches are best
accomplished within the individual database
search engines
For instance, select the EBSCO Databases for
high quality research
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Academic Search Premier is your best single
source for full text, scholarly research articles
But, you may select as many EBSCO databases as
you think appropriate
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EBSCO Database Descriptions

• Academic Search Premier - multi-disciplinary
  database with full text for nearly 4,650 serials,
  including full text for more than 3,600
  peer-reviewed titles along with citations and
  abstracts to another 5000 journals
• CINAHL Plus with FT world's most comprehensive
  source of full text for nursing allied health
  journals, providing full text for more than 560
  journals, nearly 400 have cover-to-cover indexing
  in CINAHL.
• Health Source/Nursing Academic - 550 scholarly
  full text journals focusing on many medical
  disciplines. Health Source Nursing/Academic
  Edition also features abstracts and indexing for
  nearly 850 journals.
• MEDLINE with FT - world's most comprehensive
  source of full text for medical journals,
  providing full text for nearly 1,200 journals
  indexed in MEDLINE over 1,400,000 full-text
  articles dating back to 1965.

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Explore Your Search Options

• Review the buttons on the toolbar
• Basic and Advanced Search features
• Subject terms, thesauri and indexes
• Browse for subjects that begin with or contain
  the term to be searched
• Add the term to the search screen using the ADD
  button in the browse section
• Add additional terms if desired using the boolean
  operators in the pull down menu next to the add
  button
• Search by publication (a table of contents for
  browsing a journal or finding subject specific
  articles)
• Can put articles in folders for later evaluation
  and selection

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Typical Search Strategy
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EBSCO Result List
Varieties of Full Text OptionsHTML, PDF
Linked Full Text
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Varieties of Full Text PDFs include EVERYTHING
the author intended
PDFs include all primary source charts,
graphs, tables, photographs and words
included by the writer
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Click on the title of an article to see the
abstract, the subject headings assigned, the
bibliographic information, and links to the full
text article (when available)
Search Terms are Highlighted
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Improve Your Search Techniques Boolean operators
and, or, not can
always be used to limit searches
And Combines search terms so that results
contain all of the search words. i.e.
nutrition and China wellness and
leadership and profession and women

• Or Combines search terms so that results
  contain at least one of the
  search words. i.e. adolescent or teenager
  ADD or attention deficit
  disorder

• Not Excludes terms that are not desired.
  i.e. book not review experiment
  not human

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You can expand search results by using Wildcards
and Truncation
Truncation represented by the asterisk (). Use
the to replace the end of a word. For
example type nutri to find citations
containing the words nutrient, nutrients,
nutrition, etc.
Wildcards represented by the question mark (?).
Use the ? for unknown characters For example,
type wom?n to find citations containing woman,
women, or womyn.
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Each EBSCO citation or article includesPrint,
Email, Export and Save Options
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Hooray for EBSCO!!!
Stylin the EASY Way
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Email Options are Secure Easy to Use
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If there is no full text link to an article,
what should I do?

• First, click on the McK button
• It will check our subscription lists
• Email Meseret Gebremichael (618)
  537-6950E-mail librarycirculation_at_mckendree.edu
  
• Request Articles
• Online forms or in-library paper forms
• Received via fax, electronically, by mail or
  courier
• Time needed varies / advanced planning is
  required
• Interlibrary Loan Services and Policies
• Interlibrary Loan Request Form
• Choose Borrow from another library
• Complete request form and submit
• Article will come to library and be sent to you
• Each request needs your name, contact information
  and the last date the article will be of use to
  you

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STYLE Cite Your Sources Properly

• Let the reader know whose thoughts are being
  used to make the point and provide the
  appropriate documentation
• Avoid plagiarism
• Do your own work
• Give credit where credit is due
• Do not copy someone elses work. Its fraud!
• No person shall submit as his own to an
  instructor any work which contains ideas or
  materials taken from another without full
  acknowledgment of the author the source.
  McKendrees Academic Integrity Policy

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Using, for example, APA Style

• Use the APA Style Manual to let the reader know
  where to locate the information referenced
• Copies are also on reserve in the library
• Guides are online
• http//www.mckendree.edu/academics/APA.aspx
• http//www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/cite/works_ci
  ted.htm

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Bibliographic Style Aids - APA
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Resources by Discipline
More than 50 are
included such as
Represents some of the best sources of
information from the Librarys subscription
services the Internet
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Tutorials
Tutorials are available any time and cover almost
every one of our databases
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• Please visit, call or email

• Debbie Houk 537-6951
• Interim Director
• Bill Harroff 537-6952
• Reference Information Technologies Librarian
• Meseret Gebremichael 537-6950
• Public Services Librarian
• Sandy Moody 537-6953
• Librarian