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PART I: Which Database
to Use
It depends...
- are you looking for articles from a specific journal?
- are you looking for a journal in your area of
study?
- Do you need to restrict your search to scholarly
articles, or do you want to include newspapers, magazines,
dissertations, conference proceedings, book chapters, etc.?
Possibilities...
- the online
library catalog - look up the title of the journal to
see if it is in one of our journal databases - if it is,
it will be full-text
- Ulrichsweb
- search for a particular journal, or do a keyword search
for all the journals in a particular field. Then, see which
database the journal is indexed in, and if PC has access
to that database - most of these databases are not full-text
- periodical
subscription list - this tells you if we subscribe to
a particular journal, and which database it is indexed in.
- Find
a Journal Database by Area of Study
YOUR TURN! Look up a journal
in the periodical subscription list. Which database(s) will
you use to find it? Is it full-text?
PART II: Dissecting the Database
Although the various database screens will look different,
they all do the same job, and offer similar features. Learn
one, and apply your knowledge to the others...
EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite
Academic Search Elite provides full text for more
than 2,000 publications, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed
journals. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts
are provided for all 3,466 journals in the collection. This
database offers information in nearly every area of academic
study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics,
chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature,
medical sciences, ethnic studies and more. In addition to
journal coverage, Academic Search Elite provides full text
information from a variety of source-types such as scholarly
monographs. The majority of full text titles are available
in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text
information in this database dates as far back as 1985.
Some features:
- Boolean Logic
- Wildcards and Truncation
- Proximity
- Basic Keyword Search or Advanced Search with Default
Fields
- Search by Publication Title
- Limit to Scholarly Journals
- Limit to Publication/Document Type
- Search for Images
- My EBSCOhost - save your search results, etc.
The Search Results page gives you a complete citation,
and tells you whether the article is available full-text or
not.
If the article is full-text, click on the full-text
link, then either print or e-mail the article.
When your article is not full-text
- check to see if it might
be available full-text in another database, or if Prescott
College has the actual journal on the shelf, or if another
library in town subscribes (look up the journal title in
the online
catalog)
- if the full-text article
can't be located locally, request it via Interlibrary
Loan
YOUR TURN! Find an article
of interest. What does the citation tell you? Is the article
full-text? If not, how will you follow up?
PART III: Interlibrary
Loan
Use Interlibrary Loan to borrow any book or acquire
any journal article that is unavailable to you through our
local sources. The handout will remind you how to check that
availability.
Each database has a link to an Interlibrary Loan
request form, or a link to an e-mail form. This makes it easy
to request articles during your search - and saves you the
trouble of having to fill out all the citation information!
NOTE:
If the e-mail link does not ask you for your name, use the
subject line to tell Interlibrary Loan your name, status (faculty,
RDP student, etc.), and e-mail address.
YOUR TURN! Find an article
of interest in EBSCOhost. Is it full text? If not, is it available
elsewhere in our system? How would you request this through
Interlibrary Loan? Try another database to see how their Interlibrary
Loan request link looks.
* title courtesy of UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
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