EBSCOhost Advanced Search Guided Style

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EBSCOhost Advanced Search Guided Style

• Tutorial

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Welcome to EBSCOs Advanced Search, Guided Style
tutorial, where you will learn about the key
Advanced Search screen features, from limiters
and expanders, the ability to save searches, set
up Search and Journal Alerts, search Publications
and browse Indexes, to how to manage search
results in your personalized My EBSCOhost folder.
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CONDUCT SEARCH Guided Style searching allows you
to simultaneously search for different terms in
varying article citation fields. Begin by
entering a search term in the first Find field,
and then select which field(s) to search, from
the drop-down list, such as Subject Terms.
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Guide your search using a second term, such as a
publication name, and select the SO Journal Name
field. You may enter a third search term and
choose the All Text field to have EBSCOhost look
within the full text of all articles for your
term. Note You can conduct command line searches
using the appropriate field tags, e.g., SO for
Journal Name, in front of the search term in the
Find field.
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SET LIMITERS Under the Refine Search tab, the
Advanced Search Screen offers additional search
limiters over the Basic Search Screen, for
increased result refinement. For example, you can
limit results to Full Text articles featured as a
Cover Story. Click Search to view the Result List.
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RESULT LIST You can sort the Result List by
Date, Source, Author, or Relevance using the
drop-down list at the top. You can also view
results sorted by any subject shown along the
left of the list. Results can be saved in the
temporary session folder by clicking on the Add
folder icon. To place a link to the search in
your personal folder, click on Add this search to
folder.
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My EBSCOhost PERSONALIZED FOLDER To save results
beyond the current session, log in to My
EBSCOhost, where saved items will remain until
you delete them. If you do not already have a
personalized folder account, click on the Im a
new user link to create one, and no extra charge.
From within My EBSCOhost you can Print, E-mail,
or Save to Disk all stored results.
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SEARCH HISTORY/ALERTS TAB Under the Search
History/Alerts tab, you can rerun a previously
conducted search by marking the box in front of
it and clicking Add. Or, you can Print your
Search History, Retrieve Searches or Alerts, Save
Searches or Alerts, or Clear your Search History
via the corresponding hyperlinks.
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SAVE SEARCHES by clicking on the Save
Searches/Alerts link as soon a you have conducted
a search you would like to save in your
personalized folder. This function always applies
to the most recently conducted search.
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Fill in the fields and choose the radio button in
front of the Permanent or Temporary Saved Search
option, and then click on the Save button. Your
search criteria will remain in your personalized
My EBSCOhost folder until you delete it.
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SEARCH ALERTS can be created for the most
recently conducted Advanced Search, by clicking
on the Save Searches/Alerts link and filling in
the resulting form. Choose the radio button in
front of the Alert option.
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Fill in the Alert form and choose how often you
want it to run, the period from which you want
articles included, how long you want the alert to
run, and to what e-mail address you want the
results sent. Click Save to complete the Alert
setup process. Your alert will be saved in My
EBSCOhost until you delete it.
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PUBLICATIONS can be searched directly using the
Publications authority file button along the top
toolbar. Click on it to see an alphabetized list
of every publication represented in the database.
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JOURNAL ALERTS can be set up using the same
Publications authority file button. Click on it
to see the alphabetized list of publications
available, choose the one you want to set up as
any alert, and click on its name link.
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Click on the Journal Alert link in the upper
right corner of the resulting publication detail
page.
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Complete the form by indicating how long you want
to alert to run, and where you want the results
sent. You can customize the Subject line to
ensure that when the alert arrives, you will
recognize it. You can also customize the alert
e-mail From address to accommodate e-mail virus
protection, which might otherwise block messages
bearing the default From address shown here.
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INDEXES You can browse a list of indexes for a
specific database. Click on the Indexes button
along the top toolbar, select a field within
which you want your search to take place, such as
Journal Name, and then enter a corresponding
search term, such as Time. Click Browse.
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EBSCOhost returns a list of all publications
beginning with the word Time, which are
represented in the current database.
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To search within a publication from the list,
check the box in front of it and click the Add
button. The publication name and its field code
are now in the Find field.
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Click the Search button to view the Result List
of all available articles from the selected
publication.
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HELP Click on the Help link to view the complete
online Help system, and visit our Support Site to
browse our Knowledge Base of FAQs, download Help
Sheets, User Guides, and Flash tutorials, or see
whats new in our Top Stories. This concludes
the Advanced Search, Guided Style tutorial.