EBSCO for Science Research

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The Intelligent Alternative
Why go ANYWHERE else?
Psychology Research
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Navigation Organizationof the Librarys Website
Divided into 3 Specific Categories
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Evaluating Information
Are your sources Relevant? Reliable? Objective?
Current? Appropriate? Suitable? Authoritative?
Peer reviewed!
This is where general Internet (Google, etc.)
sources show their weaknesses
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Searching is EZ!
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Typical EZ Search Options
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EZ Search Results
Click on the links to retrieve the desired
articles
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EZ Search FT Articles
Click on the View Button Always the first
button on the left-hand side
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Review the article summaries to find the best
articles
If the full text is available, click on the link
the article will open
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You can expand and improve search results by
using Truncation
Truncation represented by the asterisk ().
Use the to replace the end of a word. For
example type psyc to find citations containing
the words psychiatric, psychological,
psychology, etc.
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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.
disorders and China survey and
leadership and professional 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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If there is no full text link to an article,
what should I do?

• 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 the 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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