How To Search
Academic Search Elite
Academic Search Elite (Ebscohost) is a computerized database that contains journal, magazine, and newspaper articles published from 1984 – present on a broad range of subjects. You can print, save, or email the full-texts of many articles at your computer!
Searching
> Connect keywords with AND, OR, NOT.
Humans and growth finds articles that contain both humans and growth.
Automobile or car finds articles that contain either automobile or car.
Sports not football finds articles that contain sports but not football.
> Put phrases in quotation marks.
Example: "Baseball Hall of Fame" finds articles that contain
this exact phrase.
> Truncation: Use an asterisk on the root of a word to find many
forms.
Example: Type swim* to find swim, swimmer, swimmers, swimming.
> To find more articles, check the boxes under Expand Your Search:
To find less but more relevant articles, check the boxes under Limit
Your Search:
> Check "Peer-Reviewed" to limit your search to scholarly
and professional journals.
Advanced Searching
> Click "Guided Search" tab
on the green bar near the top of the screen to limit your search to titles,
authors, abstracts, cover stories, or images (pictures).
>Click the "Subjects" button in the green
bar near the top of the screen to browse a list. Subject searching is recommended
if you are unsure of which keywords to use in a search.
Viewing Full-texts of the Articles
Viewing Articles Online: Articles with texts available on the computer will have one of these two messages:
> HTML Full Text—click here and then
scroll down
to view the article’s text.
> PDF Full Text—click here to view the article in a PDF format.
Viewing Articles in Print: Some articles are not available online. Look
in Libraries’ Catalog to see if the libraries own the journal containing
the article:
> Click on the citation of the article that you would like.
> Scroll down and click "check for journal holdings".
> The journal will appear if the library owns it
> Scroll down to determine if the Library Has the appropriate month
and year of the journal. (If multiple headings appear, click on the number of
each heading to see if the library has the appropriate month and year.)
> Write down the Location and Call Number for the journal or
magazine. Also, write down the citation—author, article title, journal title,
publication date, and page numbers--from Academic Search Elite.
> Retrieve the article from the appropriate library.
Printing, Saving, Emailing
> HTML Full Text:
Printing:
> Click the "Print" button at the top of the article.
> Click the "Print" button.
> Click "OK" on the pop-up window.
> To return to the list of articles: Click the "Back" icon at the
top left of the article (Not the "Back" button on the browser bar).
Click "ResultsList" to return to the list of articles.
Emailing:
>Click the "Email" button at the top of the article and then type
in your email address. Click "Send"
Saving:
>Click the "Save" button at the top of the article.
>Click "Save" on the right side of the screen.
>Select "File" then "Save as" from your browser's toolbar
above. Be sure to save as a plain text file (.txt) or an HTML file (.html).
> PDF Full Text: Click the printer or disk icon at the top left
of
the screen. Or, select the email feature at the top right of the screen.
Help
>Ask a librarian at the Information
Desk in one of the campus libraries.
>Call the Libraries at (205) 348-6047