an introduction to the wonderful world of ebsco. online periodical database thousands of up-to-date...

An introduction to the wonderful world of EBSCO

EBSCO for All

What Is EBSCO?Online periodical

databaseThousands of up-to-date

articles and essays from around the world, available at the click of a mouse.

Why Not Just Use the Internet?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.

Why Should I Care?

Over 7,900 periodicals, including 6,800 scholarly journals and popular magazines such as People and Sports Illustrated

Simply the widest range of accredited resources available, at the click of a mouse

Okay… How do we get started?

A link to EBSCO can be found at the Foster High School Library Website

That brings you here…if you are home

Enter the username and password providedDon’t have the password?

Feel free to stop by the library or email Ms. Dee

Pick an EBSCO service…

Here you can choose the interface you’ll use.

I recommend EBSCOHost Web.

Decisions, decisions…You can either choose a specific database, or search

through all of them at once.Selecting all of the databases at once will get you the

most results, but it can be overwhelming.The main database is the first one Academic Search

Complete

Select the box according to what you want to service then click continue

Whoa! What do I do with this?

At first glance, it looks confusingDon’t worry, though: EBSCO makes it simple!Let’s do a sample search on video gamesType in your search term, then click on “Search.”

Here are the results!(But what does it all mean?)

Our search yielded 8,909 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.

You can limit your results here:

• “Scholarly Journals” limits your results to the really academic stuff.

• Source types specifies whether you want magazines, newspapers, etc.

• “Filter by Publication Date” lets you use a slider to limit the date range of your results

• “Geography” lets you limit to publications from the U.S.

On the left hand side…

Also on the left hand side:EBSCO automatically

searches through your results, and looks for terms that come up often.

Clicking one of the Subject Terms will give answers that relate to these sub-topics.

Subject: Thesaurus Term menu lets you look for search for items with similar meanings

That’s it!If you have

questions, don’t hesitate to ask!

Now that you have your results, view the Prezi that shows you what to do once you find an article you want.