Research Starters in EBSCO Discovery Service Tutorial Research Starters in EBSCO Discovery Service support.ebsco.com

Research Starters is a feature of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) that quickly connects users to citable, authoritative summary articles on thousands of popular topics, including history, geography, and science. Designed to enhance the research experience, Research Starters include links to relevant articles, images, videos, and audio clips. The content is curated from a variety of high quality sources including Salem Press, Encyclopædia Britannica, and others. This feature is also known as “Topic Overview” in Explora™, the dedicated search interface for all of your EBSCO school or public library databases.

Simply click the More link for a topic overview. If a Research Starter is available, it will appear at the top of the search results list. Please note that the Research Starters feature does not alter your search results list in any way. Simply click the More link for a topic overview.

From here, you can read the full text of the article or listen to the article using the Text-to-Speech feature. In addition, you can click the icons under the Tools menu to print, email, save, or cite the article.

Many searches include “Other Topics” listed at the bottom of the Research Starter placard. These are other titles that are highly relevant to your search. Clicking the link takes you directly to that Research Starter record. For example, a search for Roosevelt will retrieve the Research Starter shown.

Depending on your search term, the overview article may contain Related Information box with links to associated Research Starters. Clicking one of these links will launch the related overview article in a new browser window. Some articles also contain lateral links embedded in the full text. Clicking on a lateral link will take you to the related Research Starters record. If at any time you wish to return to the Basic Search screen, click the New Search link in the top toolbar.