EBSCO Resources Workshop Navigating EBSCO Platforms + Resources Tay Chiew Boon Senior Training Manager, Southeast Asia

EBSCO Information Services Tay Chiew Boon Senior Training Manager, Southeast Asia Email: ctay@ebsco.com Contact no.: +65 9126 7263 Thanks for joining today’s session!

Training Agenda 60 minutes EBSCO Discovery Service 20 minutes EBSCOhost Research Databases * Academic Search Ultimate * Art & Architecture Complete * Computers & Applied Sciences Complete * Engineering Source * Etc. 10 minutes Science Reference Center

What is EBSCO Discovery Service ? EBSCO Discovery Service is a customizable discovery layer that provides libraries with the flexibility to bring together their collections into a single search platform.

Single Search Box Google is the single gateway to all things free EDS is the single gateway to all things vetted

EDS – 5 Key Steps Search Facet Result Folder Save/ Alert Think about how you structure your SEARCH - phrases, truncation, boolean Search Use the FACETS to focus your search and refine the results Facet Browse RESULTS to look for full text, custom links, request options Result Use the FOLDER to collect articles to send on - log in to store these virtually Folder Do you need to SAVE or set up an ALERT to a search or publication Save/ Alert

Boolean Operators AND is used between terms to narrow your search diabetes AND obesity will retrieve references containing both search terms OR is used between terms to broaden your search diet OR nutrition will retrieve references containing either search term NOT is used to omit a term from your search cancer NOT smoking will retrieve references containing the term cancer, but that do not contain the term smoking

Search Tips The truncation/word stemming device is the asterisk (*) dyslexi* will retrieve dyslexia, dyslexic, etc The single character wildcard is question mark (?) organi?ation will retrieve organisation or organization The multiple character wildcard is the hash (#) colo#r will retrieve color or colour Use quotation marks for “phrase searching” “global warming” will retrieve references that contain both terms next to each other, in this exact order

Search Features in EDS Command-Line, Boolean, Field Search History TI Keyword* AND (Keyword N5 Keyword) Command-Line, Boolean, Field Search History Alerts, Saved Searches Folders

Demonstration ….

Mobile Access

EBSCOhost Research Databases Academic Search Complete Art & Architecture Complete Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts Science Reference Center Engineering Source Agriculture Plus Computers & Applied Sciences Complete

Academic Search Complete Multi-disciplinary Nearly 13,600 indexed and abstracted journals More than 8,900 full-text journals Full text for more than 7,800 peer-reviewed journals PDF content dating back as far as 1887 Searchable cited references provided for more than 1,400 journals All updated daily DATABASE Full-Text Journals Full-Text Peer-Reviewed Journals Active Full-Text Peer-Reviewed Journals Academic Search Complete 8,968 7,807 5,954 Updated August 2017

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete Covers research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences displicnes Indexes nearly 2,200 academic journals, professional publications and additional reference sources DATABASE Full-Text Journals Computers & Applied Sciences Complete 997

Designed for engineering professionals and researches of all types, Engineering Source offers: Cover-to-cover indexing for over 3,000 publications, including journals, monographs, magazines, and trade publications Full-text coverage for over 1,700 journals

ACTIVE JOURNALS THAT OVERLAP WITH LEADING ENGINEERING DATABASES (These statistics illustrate the extent of STM coverage in each full-text database) Engineering Source Indexing & Abstracting Engineering Source Full Text Ei Compendex 1,615 678 GeoRef 585 246 Inspec 1,558 720

URL: http://search.ebscohost.com Platform overview… URL: http://search.ebscohost.com Consolidated UI Themes navigation Article related information (RIFs) Text-to-Speech

Science Reference Center Full-Text Science Periodicals 216 Full-Text Science Reference Books 807 Full-Text Science Encyclopedias 18 Full-Text Science Essays 811 Full-Text Full-Length Biographies of Scientists 2,900+ Science Animations 61 Science Images 275,000+ Science Videos 519 Figures as of June 2016

Examples of Major Periodicals in Full Text Most of these magazines are exclusive to EBSCO

Examples of Major Reference Works in Full Text Great Scientific Achievements Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography Yearbooks in Science: 1900 to present

URL: http://search.ebscohost.com Platform overview… URL: http://search.ebscohost.com Consolidated UI Themes navigation Article related information (RIFs) Text-to-Speech

Quiz What is the symbol used in a truncation search? How many citation styles can you obtain from the “Cite” feature? What is the feature used to track and save past searches?

Tay Chiew Boon | Senior Training Manager, Southeast Asia THANK YOU Tay Chiew Boon | Senior Training Manager, Southeast Asia ctay@ebsco.com support@ebsco.com Feedback: http://support.ebsco.com/trainingeval/ +65 9126 7263