Transcript EBSCO for All

An introduction to the wonderful
world of EBSCO
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Online periodical
database
Thousands of up-to-date
articles and essays from
around the world,
available at the click of a
mouse.
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EBSCO pulls its articles
directly from accredited,
reliable journals,
magazines and
newspapers
You know your research
is accurate, not from
some guy with an active
imagination, and too
much time on his hands.
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Over 4,000 magazines, newspapers and
journals, worldwide from which to choose
Over 25,000 encyclopedic entries from Funk and
Wagnall’s Encyclopedia
Simply the widest range of accredited resources
available, at the click of a mouse
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Shaftesbury’s current
subscription includes
five databases
All are dedicated to
finding the best possible
information for high
school research
The highlights are…
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More than 2,000 serials.
Covers virtually every
area of academic study.
More than 100 journals
have PDF images back
to 1985.
Updated daily
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Largest collection of regional
full text content available to
Canadian libraries.
Includes leading Canadian
and international (U.S. and
U.K) periodicals
Updated daily
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More than 1,100 general
reference publications
with coverage dating as
far back as 1984.
Includes 56 full text
reference books
Image Collection of
192,999 photos, maps
and flags
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A link to EBSCO can be
found at the Shaftesbury
High School library website
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Enter the username and password provided
Don’t have the password?
Feel free to contact the library staff.
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Here, you can choose the interface you’ll use.
I recommend EBSCOHost Web.
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Here, you can either choose a specific database, or search
through all of them at once.
Searching through all of the databases at once will get you
the most results, and so it’s what we suggest. To pick them
all, click the “Select all” button, as indicated below.
When you’ve chosen, click continue
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At first glance, it looks confusing
Don’t worry, though: EBSCO makes it simple!
Let’s do a sample search on “monkeys”
Type in your search term, then hit “Search”.
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Our search yielded 19,286 results, which is far
too many to read through.
It’s a good thing then, that EBSCO gives us lots
of ways of narrowing our results.
Let’s look at how we can do that.
On the right
hand side…
You can limit your results here:
• “Scholarly Journals” limits
your results to the really
academic stuff.
• Clicking “Image Quick
View” if you want to see at a
glance which articles have
pictures.
• “Filter by Publication Date”
lets you use a slider to limit
the date range of your
results
Plus, there’s loads of pictures to
choose from, in a “Related
Images” section.
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EBSCO automatically
searches through your
results, and looks for
terms that come up often.
Clicking one of the
Thesaurus Terms will
give answers that relate
to these sub-topics.
Let’s click on “Research”
to find out about how
monkeys are used in
research.
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Clicking there whittled our responses down to 175
responses, which should be much easier to sift
through .
Now, you only have to click on the title to pull up
your article!
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Didn’t find what you were after? Let’s
try another way of limiting your
results.
Click on “Subject” to pull up some
more options.
Let’s say that it turns out that I really
wanted to know more about the “Arctic
Monkeys”, a band from the UK.
Again, I just click on Arctic Monkeys,
and…
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Just like that: 83 articles on the subject of my
choice. All I have to do is click on the title.
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All that’s left to
do now is to do
some surfing of
your own.
If you have
questions, don’t
hesitate to ask!
Have fun!