Searching within EBSCO databases Urszula Nowicka Training Specialist EBSCO Information Service Phone: (+48)

Agenda Theoretical part: 1.Content of the databases Practical part: 1.Basic and advanced search 2.Creating alerts 3.Personal account 4.Publications search 5.Using subject terms

The basic EBSCO package offered under the national license EBSCO offers online access to the basic package of 12 databases mostly in English

Full Text databases Academic Search Complete Master File Premier Health Source-Nursing/Academic Edition Health Source-Consumer Edition AHFS Consumer Medication Information Newspaper Source Bibliographic databases Medline ERIC GreenFILE Library, Information Science& Technology Abstracts (LISTA) Teacher Reference Center European Views of Americas ( )

The World's Most Comprehensive, Scholarly Full-Text Database for Multidisciplinary Research

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Full-Text Journals Full-Text Peer-Reviewed Journals Academic Search Complete more than 8,800 more than 7,700 Access to more than 13,600 indexed and abstracted journals and other valuable resources as periodicals, reports, books. Overview

Examples of full-text publications

Topical Video Content Academic Search Complete offers access to video content from the Associated Press, the world’s leading news agency. collection of more than 60,000 videos updated monthly footage from 1930 to the present covers a wide variety of topics

Content: More than magazines and journals 450 reference books Primary source documents Collection more than 1.3 million photos, maps and flags A Digital Collection of Full-Text Magazines for Public Libraries

Subject areas:  business  health  education  general science  multicultural issues PDF backfiles available as far back as 1922

Examples of full-text publications

Content: Full-text databases for medical sciences, nursing and health research full text from for more than 435 journals current health-related pamphlets 110 full-text health reference books more than 18,800 Clinical Reference Systems reports

Pediatric nursing Critical care Mental health Nursing management Medical law AIDS & cancer Diabetes Drugs and alcohol Aging Fitness Nutrition and dietetics Children's and women’s health Subjects

Examples of the publications

AHFS Consumer Medication Information Trusted source and recognized standard for information about medicines AHFS is published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Full Text for Leading National (U.S.), International and Regional Newspapers

Television and Radio News Transcripts

Collection Overview Bibliographical databases education, social sciences librarianship medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, health care, biomedical research texts about America written by Europeans in the years education system, curricula, teacher training human impact on the environment

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SYMBOLMEANINGEXAMPLE “ Searching for all words, maintaining the exact order „Internet addiction in children” * Masking a fragment of the word. The search words have the same core Child* Econom* ? Masking a single letter Wom?n Ne?t Organi?ation # Used with different spellings of the same word Colo#r

1.Analysis of the search request 2.Identification the relevant keywords 3.Determining the appropriate synonyms for selected keywords 4.Determining the relationship between those synonyms 5.Selecting the databases that will be searched 6.Starting the search using the chosen strategy 7.The result evaluation Effective information search

Thank you for your attention Urszula Nowicka Training Specialist EBSCO Information Service Phone: (+48)