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

2. EBSCO Information Services
Tay Chiew Boon
Senior Training Manager, Southeast Asia
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3. 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

5. 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.

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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Demonstration ….

12. Mobile Access

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

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

19. 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

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

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

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

23. 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?

24. Tay Chiew Boon | Senior Training Manager, Southeast Asia
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