An introduction to the wonderful world of EBSCO

Online periodical database Thousands of up-to-date articles and essays from around the world, available at the click of a mouse.

EBSCO pulls its articles directly from accredited, reliable journals, magazines and newspapers You know your research is accurate, not from some guy with an active imagination and too much time on his hands.

Over 7,900 periodicals, including 6,800 scholarly journals and popular magazines such as People and Sports Illustrated Simply the widest range of accredited resources available, at the click of a mouse

A link to EBSCO can be found at the Foster High School Library WebsiteFoster High School Library Website

Enter the username and password provided Don’t have the password? Feel free to stop by the library or Ms. Dee Ms. Dee

Here you can choose the interface you’ll use. I recommend EBSCOHost Web.

You can either choose a specific database, or search through all of them at once. Selecting all of the databases at once will get you the most results, but it can be overwhelming. The main database is the first one Academic Search Complete Select the box according to what you want to service then click continue

At first glance, it looks confusing Don’t worry, though: EBSCO makes it simple! Let’s do a sample search on video games Type in your search term, then click on “Search.”

Our search yielded 8,909 results, which is far too many to read through. It’s a good thing then, that EBSCO gives us lots of ways of narrowing our results. Let’s look at how we can do that.

You can limit your results here: “Scholarly Journals” limits your results to the really academic stuff. Source types specifies whether you want magazines, newspapers, etc. “Filter by Publication Date” lets you use a slider to limit the date range of your results “Geography” lets you limit to publications from the U.S.

EBSCO automatically searches through your results, and looks for terms that come up often. Clicking one of the Subject Terms will give answers that relate to these sub-topics. Subject: Thesaurus Term menu lets you look for search for items with similar meanings

If you have questions, don’t hesitate to ask!ask Now that you have your results, view the Prezi that shows you what to do once you find an article you want.view the Prezi