How To Search
Expanded Academic ASAP

Expanded Academic ASAP (Infotrac) contains over 3 million articles published from 1980 forward on various topics. You can read, print, save, or email the texts of many articles at your computer!

Getting Started

Simply click "Expanded Academic ASAP" on the Libraries’ databases list.

Basic Searching

Click "Keyword Search" in the blue column on the left side of the screen to start most searches:

 > Connect words with AND to find articles that contain both words.
Example: football and baseball finds articles that contain both football and baseball.

> Connect words with OR to find articles that contain either word.
Example: football or baseball finds articles that contain either football or baseball.

> Connect words with NOT to find articles that contain one word but not another.
Example: sports not football finds articles that contain sports but not football.

> Enclose phrases in quotation marks:
Example: "Baseball Hall of Fame" finds this exact phrase.

> Use an asterick on the root of a keyword to find various endings.
Example: swim* finds swim, swimmer, swimmers, swimming

> Limit your search to : --articles with online texts
--scholarly or professional articles from refereed publications
--a certain date range

Viewing Texts

Articles with online texts have the blue message Text under the articles’ titles. Other articles will only have Citations or Abstracts. Users may find printed texts for these citations or abstracts by searching in the Libraries’ Catalog. (See below)

Improving Searches

If you are not finding the right kind of information, you may wish to try one of the other search modes by selecting from the menu on the left sidebar:

> Subject guide: permits you to browse a list of subjects. Use the subject guide to find the right keywords to use in your search.

> Relevancy search: use + in front of words that you wish to find
use – in front of words that you do not wish to find

> Advanced search: limits the search to specific types of information such as author, article title, or journal name.

What if the articles do not have online texts?

Look in Libraries’ Catalog to see if the Libraries own the journal containing the article:

> Minimize EAI (or print out the citations)
> Enter the Libraries Catalog (http://library.ua.edu/).
> Select "Basic Search"
> Type in the name of the journal or magazine (not the title of the article).
> Highlight "Journal Title" in the "Find Results in" menu.
> Click "Search"
> The journal will appear if the library owns it. (If the Libraries do not own it, you will see the red message "Your search resulted in no hits!")
> Scroll down and see if the Library Has the appropriate month and year of the journal or magazine (Please note: if multiple headings for the journal appear, click on each heading to see if the library owns the appropriate month and year.)
> Write down the Location and Call Number for the journal or magazine.

Printing and Emailing

Printing: Click the Print icon on the left side of the article. Click "OK"

Emailing: Click Email or Retrieval on the left side of the article. Type in your email address. Click "Submit Email Request"

Help

> Ask a librarian at the Information Desk in one of the campus libraries.
> Call the Libraries at (205) 348-6047