EBSCOhost Advanced Search Guided Style Tutorial support.ebsco.com

Welcome to EBSCO’s Advanced Search, Guided Style tutorial, where you will learn about the key Advanced Search screen features, from limiters and expanders, the ability to save searches, set up Search and Journal Alerts, search Publications and browse Indexes, to how to manage search results in your personalized My EBSCOhost folder.

CONDUCT SEARCH: Guided Style searching allows you to simultaneously search for different terms in varying article citation fields. Begin by entering a search term in the first Find field, and then select which field(s) to search, from the drop-down list, such as Subject Terms.

Guide your search using a second term, such as a publication name, and select the SO Journal Name field. You may enter a third search term and choose the All Text field to have EBSCOhost look within the full text of all articles for your term. Note: You can conduct command line searches using the appropriate field tags, e.g., SO for Journal Name, in front of the search term in the Find field.

SET LIMITERS: Under the Refine Search tab, the Advanced Search Screen offers additional search limiters over the Basic Search Screen, for increased result refinement. For example, you can limit results to Full Text articles featured as a Cover Story. Click Search to view the Result List.

RESULT LIST: You can sort the Result List by Date, Source, Author, or Relevance using the drop-down list at the top. You can also view results sorted by any subject shown along the left of the list. Results can be saved in the temporary session folder by clicking on the Add folder icon. To place a link to the search in your personal folder, click on Add this search to folder.

My EBSCOhost PERSONALIZED FOLDER: To save results beyond the current session, log in to My EBSCOhost, where saved items will remain until you delete them. If you do not already have a personalized folder account, click on the I’m a new user link to create one, and no extra charge. From within My EBSCOhost you can Print, E-mail, or Save to Disk all stored results.

SEARCH HISTORY/ALERTS TAB: Under the Search History/Alerts tab, you can rerun a previously conducted search by marking the box in front of it and clicking Add. Or, you can Print your Search History, Retrieve Searches or Alerts, Save Searches or Alerts, or Clear your Search History via the corresponding hyperlinks.

SAVE SEARCHES by clicking on the Save Searches/Alerts link as soon a you have conducted a search you would like to save in your personalized folder. This function always applies to the most recently conducted search.

Fill in the fields and choose the radio button in front of the Permanent or Temporary Saved Search option, and then click on the Save button. Your search criteria will remain in your personalized My EBSCOhost folder until you delete it.

SEARCH ALERTS can be created for the most recently conducted Advanced Search, by clicking on the Save Searches/Alerts link and filling in the resulting form. Choose the radio button in front of the Alert option.

Fill in the Alert form and choose how often you want it to run, the period from which you want articles included, how long you want the alert to run, and to what e-mail address you want the results sent. Click Save to complete the Alert setup process. Your alert will be saved in My EBSCOhost until you delete it.

PUBLICATIONS can be searched directly using the Publications authority file button along the top toolbar. Click on it to see an alphabetized list of every publication represented in the database.

JOURNAL ALERTS can be set up using the same Publications authority file button. Click on it to see the alphabetized list of publications available, choose the one you want to set up as any alert, and click on its name link.

Click on the Journal Alert link in the upper right corner of the resulting publication detail page.

Complete the form by indicating how long you want to alert to run, and where you want the results sent. You can customize the Subject line to ensure that when the alert arrives, you will recognize it. You can also customize the alert e-mail From address to accommodate e-mail virus protection, which might otherwise block messages bearing the default From address shown here.

INDEXES: You can browse a list of indexes for a specific database INDEXES: You can browse a list of indexes for a specific database. Click on the Indexes button along the top toolbar, select a field within which you want your search to take place, such as Journal Name, and then enter a corresponding search term, such as Time. Click Browse.

EBSCOhost returns a list of all publications beginning with the word Time, which are represented in the current database.

To search within a publication from the list, check the box in front of it and click the Add button. The publication name and its field code are now in the Find field.

Click the Search button to view the Result List of all available articles from the selected publication.

HELP: Click on the Help link to view the complete online Help system, and visit our Support Site to browse our Knowledge Base of FAQs, download Help Sheets, User Guides, and Flash tutorials, or see what’s new in our Top Stories. This concludes the Advanced Search, Guided Style tutorial.