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TutorialGuide no. 33

ADVANCE SEARCH IN ERIC AND LIMITING YOUR

RESULTS

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WHY USING LIMITERS?• To narrow your search results by:

1. Full Text2. Peer Reviewed3. Date Published4. Educational Level5. Intended Audience6. Journal Name7. ERIC number8. Journal or Document9. Publication Type10.Language

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Search ERIC data base with limiters options

Select EBSCO (Education) ERIC

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To access, go to http://www.usuniversity.edu/student_services_library.php

• 1. From home page, look for the bar across the page, click on STUDENT SERVICES or look for Library, under STUDENT SERVICES.

• 2. Select US University Online full text databases

• 3. Scroll down to EBSCO EDUCATION (ERIC)

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http://www.usuniversity.edu/student_services_library.php

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Or look for Library, under STUDENT SERVICES at the bottom of HOME

page

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Select US University Online full text databases

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Select Education

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4. At the bottom of the page you will find the EBSCO EDUCATION (ERIC)

link.

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5. For ID & Password, go to your personal 5. For ID & Password, go to your personal US University e-mail or contact the US University e-mail or contact the

LibrarianLibrarian

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Select the INDEXES, see tutorial 32 to learn how to

search

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If we search for “The American Education System”, we start Browsing for EDUCATION and in Browse an Index select

Descriptor field. Click in as many terms as you need. Now ADD to search using the AND option.

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Automatically all terms selected will appear in the searching box, and click the Search

button for results

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Let’s limit the results, there are too many. Click in the Full Text & Peer Reviewed box

and in the Update Results.

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Add to the search United States with the TI Title field option (instead of using America) and click the search button. It pops up the Smart /text Searching tool, click in the Search

button

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The results were limited considerably for The American Education System

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Example 2

Cross Cultural Education

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Let’s search directly in the Advanced Search selecting Ti Title in the Field option and

limit results to Full Text only

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Continue limiting your results by selecting dates, Educational Level, and Intended Audience

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From the number of results, we need to expand the search

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Select to search AB Abstract in the field option

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Let’s select SU Descriptors in the field option and Search the Smart Text

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Go to your results, are they satisfactory?

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To copy paste the link of the 19 results, click in Alert/Save/Share and click in the Permalink

http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&bquery=(XX+%22su%22%5b100%5d+OR+XX+%22cross%22%5b50%5d+OR+XX+%22cultural%22%5b36%5d)+and+

(SU+EDUCATION)&cli0=FT&clv0=Y&cli1=RV&clv1=Y&cli2=DT1&clv2=200801-201008&cli3=DE3&clv3=Higher+Education&cli4=AG2&clv4=Teachers&type=1&site=ehost-live

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Your results can be saved in your EBSCO HOST folder, e mail it and print. To save in EBSCO server,

go to Searching Medline Register EbscoHost Alerts

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Now you have to continue your own journey

• Second stop, please go to Searching Eric Thesaurus & Index and Academic Search Premier Visual Search

• Third Stop, and Plagiarism

• Fourth stop, Create Alerts and Files in EBSCO and Information Cycle

• Fifth Stop, OPEN SOURCES http://www.usuniversity.edu/student_services_library_information.php

• and Collections• http://www.usuniversity.edu/student_services_library_collecti

ons.php

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Thank you for taking the time to learn!

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For more information• Please contact

• M.L.S Catalina Lopez• clopez@usuniversity.edu• (619) 477 6310 ext 2017