EBSCO databases Business Source Premier – INSPEC – PsychINFO/Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection – British Nursing Index – CINAHL – SportDISCUS – Medline – Social Science Abstracts

Business Source Premier – 7,400 fulltext business journals INSPEC – Abstracts and indexes scientific and technical journals, conference proceedings, books, dissertations, reports PsychINFO – Abstracts and indexes over 2,000 psychology journals, and conferences and books Psychology and Behavioural Sciences – over 550 fulltext psychology journals British Nursing Index – Indexes over 220 nursing and midwifery journals CINAHL – Indexes over 1,700 nursing and allied health journals SportDISCUS – Indexes sport journals, books and conference proceedings Medline – Indexes and abstracts over 4,600 biomedical journals Social Science Abstracts – Indexes and abstracts over 520 publications in the social sciences

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From Library and Online Learning page select Electronic Databases

Select Electronic Database A-Z to display list. Database descriptions describe subject covered by databases. Database help files available here

Chose Database(s) from the Drop-down lists. From the University, select either Intranet or Athens. Externally select Athens Through Athens: Log in using Athens username and password… …then from list of databases select EBSCOhost databases

If menu appears, select database(s) by ticking boxes, then click on Continue N.B. If service is fulltext,Title list displays journals available From list, click on database required

Advanced search screen will appear. If Basic search is required, select from tab at top of screen Help screens are available

Type in Key words, then select Search In Advanced Search, use drop-down menus to link word or phrases with Boolean Search Operators, and, or, not. In Basic Search, operators and, or, not, must be typed in to link words or phrases

Boolean Search Operators And links terms, e.g. football and violence will find records which contain both terms. Or will find records which contain one term or the other, e.g Child or adolescent will find records containing either term. Not excludes records which contain the term, e.g. CAD not CAM will find records containing the first term, but not if the second term is also present.

Proximity searching: Banks & banking n5 profits will display records where the first term appears within 5 words of the second, in any order Geriatric assessment w8 caregivers will display records where the first term appears within 8 words of the second, in the order in which terms are input.

In Advanced search, fields to be searched can be specified from drop-down lists

Searches can be limited according to the options given… …or expanded as indicated

Truncation character * can be used at end of word to locate different word endings, e.g. drug abuse counsel* will find drug abuse counselling and drug abuse counsellors. Wildcard character ? can be used to replace one letter e.g. w?ll locates wall, well and will.

Search results display in batches of 20 In fulltext databases, Linked full text, or PDF full text will display. N.B. Adobe Acrobat program is needed to read PDF files

Clicking on the title will display further information including an Abstract. …click on PDF fulltext link to display PDF article Fulltext databases display HTML articles under the record…

Select Print icon or Save icon to print or save full text of article. (if present) allows you to it, Add to folder will save it until end of session N.B. If printing, check number of pages. If in the University, Print Balance may need topping up. Print 5 or 6 pages, then the next 5 or 6 until end of article as lengthy articles jam the printer memory

Full text is only available from fulltext databases. If full text not available, click on Results to return to Results screen. Click on Folder to save useful references.

Click on next page number to display more results When results have been viewed, click on View folder to show saved results

Results may be printed, ed or saved to disk Searches can be stored in the folder for a future session by entering My EBSCOhost

Up to 50 records can be printed. It is inadvisable to clear marked records before printout checked. Number of pages can be estimated Default fields can be changed. Check Online help to print/ /save pdf files Enter address and subject, then send Up to 50 records can be saved to disk

Click Index or Thesaurus (if available) to check terms used. Business Premier Service also contains Company profiles

Accessing My EBSCOhost is only necessary if search results are to be saved for reuse another time To set up My EBSCOhost account, select New User. Then select Personal account and give details as requested. Username and Password can be any that you will remember.

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