GALILEO Tutorial

EBSCOhost Search Basics

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July 2008

EBSCOhost provides :

A collection of databases developed and provided by EBSCO and licensed to GALILEO for your use

Access to the full text of thousands of magazines, journals, books, and pamphlets in many different fields

Indexing and abstracting of thousands of other titles

Basic and advanced search tools that are both powerful and easy to use

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From the Library’s Web page,Click on the link to GALILEO.

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From the GALILEO page, click the“Databases A-Z” tab.

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Type “ebscohost” in the Find Databasessearch box and click the “Find Database” button.

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Select the database you want to search from the list.“EBSCOhost Search” lets you search 30 full-textdatabases at one time.

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Click on “more >>” to find out more about a particular database.

All EBSCOhost databases use the same search interface.

Type in your search termsand press the “Search” button.

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We will search for articleson teen suicide

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If you misspell your search term,EBSCOhost will help you correct it.

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Our search returned 613 articles.

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This is a PDF Full Text article. It is an image of the article as it was originallypublished.

We can print the article or save it to aflash drive.

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We can also e-mailthe article to ourselvesor to someone else.

PDF Full Text articles show thegraphics and photos as theyoriginally appeared in the article.

Use the “Result List” link to return tothe list of articles.

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HTML Full Text shows the article as aWeb page.

We can print, e-mail or save this articleto a flash drive.

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HTML Full Text articles seldominclude graphics or photos.

Use the “Result List” link to return tothe list of articles.

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EBSCOhost suggests other subjects that may help,if our search results are not satisfactory.

Or, we can modify our search and run it again.

“Choose Databases” lets us choose other EBSCOhost Databases to search instead of or in addition to our current choice.

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Central Georgia Tech’s collection of EBSCOhost databases has beencustomized to best meet the needs of our students and faculty. ThroughGALILEO, we have access to 45 databases covering a wide variety ofsubject areas.

Click “More Information” for a detaileddescription of the database.

Click “Title List” for a complete list of the titles included in thedatabase.

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For further information :

The Library staff are ready to help. Please ask.

See our presentation on using ProQuest as well.

Please e-mail library@centralgatech.edu and let us know how we can improve these tutorials to better serve your needs.

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