Transcript EBSCOhost 2.0 Manual for EBSCO Databases Searching For Details Visit : http://support.ebscohost.com/ or For any Help Contact the Librarian ([email protected])

EBSCOhost 2.0
Manual for EBSCO Databases Searching
For Details Visit : http://support.ebscohost.com/
or For any Help Contact the Librarian ([email protected])
The Server Link to Access to EBSCOhost
http://search.ebscohost.com/
Type in the following link to your Internet Browser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox) and
Click on Go or press Enter key
If you have an INTRANET, kindly click on the respective EBSCO link within the Intranet
In this page, you are allowed to choose the database/s you wish to search inside, majorly applicable if
you have bought multiple databases.
FEW IMPORTANT THINGS TO REMEMBER
1. Once you choose the database, the page appearing will be the Search Interface – where
you can start your search for articles, reports, journals etc.
If you are not been taken to the search page, there are chances of some errors with the IP
address; kindly check with the respective manager for details.
2. The Search interface support the keyword based searching by choosing Basic / Advanced
/ Visual Searching options.
3. Also you can have a publication wise (journal wise) search by selecting the publication tab
on the left top corner.
4. FULL TEXT links will be there after each result and there will be options to print,
download, mail the articles.
5. You can prepare notes on each article and store documents in a folder by creating
personal folder (My EBSCOhost) – Items can be added to folder by clicking on ADD TO
FOLDER right after each result.
6. Also the options allow you to create alerts on keywords, journals – which all will be
summarized in the folder.
7. It’s recommended that, you sign-in (right-top side) into the personal folder with your UID &
PWD before start your searching.
Keyword Based Searching
1. Basic Search
We’ll begin by conducting a Basic Search on “global warming” – just like your Google.
You can view available limiters and expanders by clicking on Search Options.
Under the Search Options, it is easy to limit or expand your search results. You can choose from one
of the available Search Modes and depending upon the databases you have chosen, you may
see the ability to limit a search by Full Text articles, Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals, or a
particular publication that you enter in the field provided.
If you misspell your keyword(s), the Spellchecker function will suggest alternate spellings. The Result
List defaults to showing All Results, and can be filtered to view results by specific document type,
such as Academic Journals, Magazines, or Books/Monographs, using the links at the top of the list.
Your result screen is displayed here, which can be sorted on Relevance, Date, source. The links to get fulltext is also given there,
along with the abstracts view and link to add the article to Folder.
Also the page contains Limiters on both the sides.
Right side: Options for limiting to FULLTEXT, PEER-Reviewed, Date Sliding.
Left Side: Subject clusters on Source of Articles, Subject Thesaurus Terms, Industry, Company, Publications, Geography etc.
Keyword Based Searching
2. Advanced Search
If you go to the advance search page, 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.
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.
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.
Please see the use of Boolean Operators – AND – OR - NOT
SET
LIMITERS: Under the Search Options, the Advanced Search Screen offers additional search
limiters for increased result refinement. For example, you can limit results to Full Text articles within a
specified date range. Click Search to view the Result List.
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 to folder icon.
To
place a link to the search in your personal folder, click Alert/Save/Share. From the resulting
menu, choose Add search to folder. From this menu, you can also create an alert or an RSS
feed, copy a persistent link (Permalink) to your search, or add a bookmark to your web browser
favorites.
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 I’m a new user link to create one, at no charge. From within My
EBSCOhost you can print, e-mail, save, and export all stored results.
SEARCH
HISTORY/ALERTS OPTIONS: Click the Search History/Alerts link under the Find field to
access Search History options. From here you can rerun a previously conducted search by marking the
check 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.
SAVE
SEARCHES by clicking on the Save Searches/Alerts link after you have conducted a search
you would like to save in your personalized folder. This function always applies to the most recently
conducted search.
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.
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.
Publication wise Searching
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.
JOURNAL
ALERTS can be set up using the same Publications authority file button. Click on
Publications to see the alphabetized list of publications available, choose the one you want to set up as
an alert, and click on the hyperlinked publication name.
Click
on the Alert/Save/Share link in the upper right corner of the resulting publication details page
and then select Create an Alert.
My EBSCOhost Folder
Creating Personal Folder
Welcome to the My EBSCOhost tutorial, which demonstrates how to set up and make the most of the free
personalization (My EBSCOhost) folder, allowing users to extend the usage of EBSCOhost
search results beyond their current session. Personalized folder accounts are simple to
set up, and can be created by any user accessing EBSCOhost.
In addition to search results, My EBSCOhost users can store Images, Videos, Persistent Links to
Searches, Saved Searches, Search Alerts, Journal Alerts and Web Pages created using
EBSCO’s free Page Composer program. From within the Personalized folder, users
can print, email, save, or export search results, images or videos.
We’ll begin by clicking on the Sign In to My EBSCOhost link. Click on the I’m a new user link and fill in
the fields. Click Continue. Once your information has been accepted, you will automatically be logged in
as a personalized folder user.
When you conduct a Basic or Advanced Search after logging in to your personalized folder, you can save
particular Result List items to your personalized folder by clicking on the Add to folder link to the left of
the relevancy bar for each article. These saved search results can be examined more closely at a later
date, as well as printed, emailed or saved to your computer.
By clicking the Alert/Save/Share link and then clicking Add search to folder, you can add a persistent
link to a search to your personalized folder, which can then be emailed, saved or clicked later on to run
the search, showing any new results that have been added to the database.
From the Publication Details page of most journals represented in the database you are searching, you can
set up a Journal Alert, which will be kept in your personalized My EBSCOhost folder until you
delete it. Journal Alerts provide automatic notification via email whenever a new issue of
the specified publication has been added to the database, eliminating the need to
continually check the database for new issues.
Click on the Help link to view the complete online help manual, and visit the EBSCO support site at
http://support.ebsco.com to browse our Knowledge Base of FAQs, download Help Sheets,
User Guides, view online tutorials, or see what’s new in our Top Stories.
This concludes the My EBSCOhost tutorial.