EBSCO for Science Research

1
The Intelligent Alternative
Graduate Level Research in Education
2

• Stephen Banister 537-6514
• Director
• Bill Harroff 537-6952
• Reference Information Technologies Librarian
• Debbie Houk 537-6951
• Technical Services Librarian
• Meseret Gebremichael 537-6950
• Public Services Librarian
• Sandy Moody 537-6953
• Librarian
• LeAnn Noland 537-6950
• Library Assistant

• Please visit call or email
• any of us

3
This tutorial will cover the basics in using
the online resources at Holman Library

• Major Topics Covered
• EZ Search
• Database List
• Education Resources
• APA Style the Basics
• Tutorials

4
Holman Library WebPages act as an Information
Gateway

• Menu to resources and services
• Subscriptions to over 60 electronic databases
• Most full text resources
• Proxy server for off campus access
• Databases available 24 / 7
• Guides to resources by division, major program
• Online forms for requesting reference help,
  interlibrary loan, instruction other services

5
Off Campus Access

• You must have a McKendree username password
  to access Library resources
• Contact 537-6445 or helpdesk_at_mckendree.edu with
  support webpages at http//support.mckendree.edu
• Proxy server
• Authenticates McKendree affiliation
• Allows access from any PC connected to the
  Internet
• Establishes compliance with licensing agreements

6
Research Process for Locating Quality Journal
Articles

• Select a topic
• Choose a database
• EBSCO Databases
• FirstSearch Databases
• Lexis-Nexis Academic
• Sage Journals
• Construct a search
• Perform a search
• Broaden and/or narrow a topic
• Recognize the full text, citation options

7
Searching is EZ!
8
EZ Search Options
9
EZ Search Results
Click on the links to retrieve the articles
10
Select VIEW for the most complete information
11
You may search individual databases one by one
or in groups without using the EZ Button
Try the Database List
12
Precise, definitive searches are best
accomplished within the individual database
search engines
For instance, select the EBSCO Databases for
high quality research
13
Academic Search Premier is your best source for
FT, scholarly research articles
But, you may select as many EBSCO databases as
you think appropriate
14
EBSCO Database Descriptions

• Academic Search Premier - multi-disciplinary
  database with full text for nearly 4,650 serials,
  including full text for more than 3,600
  peer-reviewed titles along with citations and
  abstracts to another 5000 journals
• ERIC citations and abstracts from ERIC
  documents and over 1,000 educational and
  education-related journals with links to newer
  documents and journals in other EBSCO products
• Professional Development Collection a highly
  specialized collection of nearly 550 high quality
  education journals, including more than 350
  peer-reviewed titles as well as more than 200
  educational reports
• Teacher Reference Center indexing and abstracts
  for more than 270 of the most popular teacher
  and administrator journals and magazines to
  assist professional educators.  

15
Explore Your Search Options

• Review the buttons on the toolbar
• Basic and Advanced Search features
• Subject terms, thesauri and indexes
• Browse for subjects that begin with or contain
  the term to be searched
• Add the term to the search screen using the ADD
  button in the browse section
• Add additional terms if desired using the boolean
  operators in the pull down menu next to the add
  button
• Search by publication (a table of contents for
  browsing a journal or finding subject specific
  articles)
• Can put articles in folders for later evaluation
  and selection

16
Education Searching Model
17
EBSCO Result List
Varieties of Full Text OptionsHTML, PDF
Linked Full Text
18
Click on the title of an article to see the
abstract, the subject headings assigned, the
bibliographic information, and links to the full
text article (when available)
Search Terms are Highlighted
19
Varieties of Full Text PDFs include EVERYTHING
the author intended
PDFs include all primary source charts,
graphs, tables, photographs and words
included by the writer
20
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. discipline and children and Illinois

• 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

21
You can expand search results by using Wildcards
and Truncation
Truncation represented by the asterisk (). Use
the to replace the end of a word. For
example type teach to find citations
containing the words teach, teacher, teachers,
teaching, etc.
Wildcards represented by the question mark (?).
Use the ? for unknown characters For example,
type wom?n to find citations containing woman,
women, or womyn.
22
Each citation or article includesPrint, Email,
Export and Save Options
23
Hooray for EBSCO!!!
Stylin the EASY Way
24
Email Options are Secure Easy to Use
25
If there is no full text link to an article,
what should I do?

• First, click on the McK button
• It will check our subscription lists
• 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 / planning required
• Interlibrary Loan Services and Policies
• Interlibrary Loan Request Form
• Choose Borrow from another library
• Complete request form and submit
• Article will come to library and be sent to you
• Each request needs your name, contact information
  and the last date

26
Cite Your Sources Properly

• Let the reader know whose thoughts are being
  used to make the point and provide the
  appropriate documentation
• Avoid plagiarism
• Do not copy someone elses work. Its fraud!
• No person shall submit as his own to an
  instructor any work which contains ideas or
  materials taken from another without full
  acknowledgment of the author the source.
  McKendrees Academic Integrity Policy

27
Bibliographic Style Aids - APA
Guides are online http//www.mckendree.edu/aca
demics/APA.aspx http//www.lib.duke.edu/libgui
de/cite/works_cited.htm
28
Resources by Discipline - Education
Represents some of the best sources of
information from the Librarys subscription
services the Internet
29
Tutorials
Tutorials are available any time and cover almost
every one of our databases