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Creating a Basic on EBSCOhost

Welcome to EBSCO’s Basic Searching on EBSCOhost tutorial. In this tutorial, we will look at conducting a search from the Basic Search screen of EBSCOhost.

We’ll begin by conducting a Basic Search on global warming. Enter your search terms and click Search. Or 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. After applying limiters and expanders, click Search.

A Result List is displayed and defaults to showing All Results. It is easy to limit your results using the limiters under Refine your results on the left. The Result List can also be filtered to view results by

source type, such as Academic Journals, Magazines, or Newspapers, by clicking the checkboxes next to the desired source type and clicking Update.

You can print, email, save, cite or export a single result from the Detailed Record when you click on an article title link. To print, email, save, cite or export multiple results, add them to the folder, then click the appropriate icon inside the folder. Folder contents can be permanently saved by clicking on the

Sign In link, and then setting up a personalized My EBSCOhost folder account at no charge.

At any time, click the Help link to view the complete online Help system.

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The EBSCOhost Result ListTutorial

Welcome to the EBSCOhost Result List tutorial. In this tutorial, we will look at the features of the EBSCOhost result list, including refining your results with limiters and subject clusters.

Limit your results to Full Text or Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals or use the date slider bar to change the date range of your results. Click Update Results to refresh the result list. To view the entire

list of available limiters, click the Show More link.

Depending on the database(s) being searched, you may see the ability to limit a search by a particular publication name, or to those results published within a date range you determine. Once

you have selected your limiter(s), click Search.

When conducting a search, the Result List defaults to showing All Results. To view results of a specific source type, select the checkboxes for the desired source types and click Update. Available

source types may include Academic Journals, Magazines, or Books/Monographs. Note that when selecting source types (or subject clusters), the rest of the screen will be grayed out until you have

made your selections and clicked Update.

Use clusters to further narrow your results by clicking the checkboxes for the desired terms on the left, then click Update. Depending on the database(s) searched, results can be clustered by Subjects,

Thesaurus Terms, Authors, Company Names, or Publications. Note that you can select terms and update the result list for one cluster at a time.

When refining your search results using limiters, source types, and clusters, each item is added to the Bread Box found at the top of the left-hand column. Clicking on a hyperlinked subject term within the

Bread Box executes a search for that term only. Clicking on the icon removes the term from the Bread Box and refreshes your search results.

Preview an article’s Detailed Record by holding your mouse over the magnifying glass icon next to an article title. This displays some of the article abstract and includes full text icons, when full text is available.

Click the Add to folder link to add articles to the session folder. The session folder is available for saving items during a single research session. Or you can sign into your personal My EBSCOhost folder by clicking the Sign In link found at the top of the screen to permanently store your results.

If there are images related to the articles in your result list, you are able to preview them by simply holding your mouse over the thumbnail image. Doing so displays the image on the screen.

Your search history from the current session is available by clicking the Search History link below the Find field. For more information, see the Using the Search History Feature tutorial on the EBSCO

Support Site.

You can sort the Result List by Date, Source, Author, or Relevance using the drop-down list at the top. If you are sorting your results by relevance, each article is given a relevancy ranking indicator bar next to

the Add to folder link.

The Page Options drop-down menu allows you to set your Result Format, turn Image QuickView on or off, set the number of results per page, and select your preferred Page Layout.

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 add all displayed results to the folder, create an E-mail Alert, copy a persistent link (Permalink) to your search, or click Bookmark to add

the article to your browser favorites or share it via services such as Facebook, Twitter, or Del.icio.us.

The columns on either side of the result list can be collapsed or expanded during your session. To expand or collapse a column, click on the arrow found at the top of the column.

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Conducting an Advanced Search on EBSCOhost

Guided Style Find Fields

Welcome to EBSCO’s Conducting an Advanced Guided Style search on EBSCOhost tutorial. In this tutorial, we will look at conducting an Advanced Search on EBSCOhost, using the Guided Style Find fields as well as applying limiters and expanders.

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 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.

In the Search Options area, 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.

A Result List is displayed and defaults to showing All Results. It is easy to limit your results using the limiters under Refine your results on the left. The Result List can also be filtered to view results by source type, such as Academic Journals, Magazines, or Newspapers, by clicking the checkboxes next to the desired source type and clicking Update. You can view your search terms, any applied limiters or expanders, and selected subject terms in the Bread Box above the limiters.

You can print, email, save, cite or export a single result from the Detailed Record when you click on a title link. To print, email, save, cite or export multiple results, add them to the folder, then click the appropriate icon inside the folder. Folder contents can be saved by clicking on the Sign In link, and then setting up a personalized (My EBSCOhost) folder account at no charge.

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Reading an EBSCOhost Article

Welcome to EBSCO’s Reading an Article on EBSCOhost tutorial. In this tutorial, we will look at the features of the EBSCOhost Detailed Record of a Result List item.

A Result List is displayed and defaults to showing All Results. The Result List can be filtered to view results by specific document type, such as Academic Journals, Magazines, or Books/Monographs,

using the checkboxes in the left column. Click on an article title to view the Detailed Record.

From the column on the left, you can access all available versions of the item you are viewing. This may include HTML or PDF Full Text. You can also execute a SmartText Search for your search terms to

find similar results.

Using the tools in the right column, you can Print, E-mail, Save, Cite, or Export your article, as well as add it to your folder. You can also Create a Note on the article and save it to your personal folder. Click Permalink to access a persistent link to the article, or click Bookmark to add the article to

your browser favorites or share it via services such as Facebook, Twitter, or Del.icio.us.

If enabled by your administrator for HTML Full Text, you may see the option to Listen to your article using the Text-To-Speech feature, as well as the option to Translate the article into one of several available

languages.

Click the PDF Full Text link to view the Full Text in the PDF Viewer Tool.

You can return to the result list, refine your search, or download the PDF by clicking the links at the top of the Viewer. Using the Inside this work column, you can access other articles from the same issue

of your source or Choose Another Issue.

Using the icons on the right, you can Add the article to the folder as well as E-mail or Export the article.

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EBSCOhost Visual SearchTutorial

Welcome to EBSCO’s Visual Search tutorial, where you will learn about the key Visual Search screen features, from conducting searches using the Visual Search interface, Columns and Blocks result list

styles, sorting options for results, and the ability to save articles to a personal folder.

CONDUCTING A SEARCH: Visual Search allows you to search for articles and view the results in two different styles: Columns and Blocks. Begin searching for articles by entering a search term in the Find field and click Search. Depending on how your library administrator has set the default screen, results

will be displayed in either Columns or in Blocks.

VIEWING RESULTS IN COLUMNS STYLE: When results are displayed in columns, they appear shaded in two colors. Results shaded in blue indicate subjects relevant to your search. Clicking on a

subject will narrow your results even further. Results shaded in green indicate articles relevant to your search. If full text is available, it will be indicated in the result listing as either PDF or HTML full text. You can scroll through the results by holding the pointer over the column and slowly moving it up or down.

RELEVANCY SQUARES AND KEY: Note the small, white relevancy indicator squares in the article results. These indicate an article’s relevancy to your search and correspond to the Relevancy Key

found in the upper right hand corner of the result list. Articles most relevant to your search will appear with three squares, while articles that are less relevant will have one or two squares.

You can preview an article by clicking on the result list item. Article information will appear in the Summary window on the right side of the screen. To view the full citation or access the full text of an

article, click on the More link at the bottom of the summary window.

When you select “More,” the full citation is displayed. To return to the result list, click on the arrow found on the left side of the screen.

Using the results sorting options, you are able to Group Results by subject or publication, Sort Results by date or relevance, Filter Results by Date, or change the Display Style between Columns

and Blocks styles.

Articles can be collected and saved to a folder for viewing at a later time by clicking and dragging a result list item over to the Collect Articles window. Your collected articles will appear as green boxes in the

window. When you are finished collecting articles, click on the Add to Folder link in the Collect Articles window. To save your articles beyond this session, be sure to Sign In to your personalized My EBSCOhost

folder.

VIEWING RESULTS IN BLOCKS STYLE: From the Display Style sorting option, select Blocks. Results will be displayed in the Blocks style in alternating blue and green colored rows. The first block

on the left will indicate the subject, with the related results following.

Blocks style also contains two additional features – the control arrows and the results map. The control arrows allow users to navigate around the results, including changing the size of the blocks to

show more or fewer results. The results map in the lower right of the screen also allows users to navigate around the results list by dragging the red square around the map.

HELP: Click on the Help link to view the complete online Help system.