Searching within EBSCO databases. Urszula Nowicka Training Specialist EBSCO Information Service Phone: (+48)

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1 Searching within EBSCO databases Urszula Nowicka Training Specialist EBSCO Information Service Phone: (+48)

2 Agenda Theoretical part: 1. Content of the databases Practical part: 1. Basic and advanced search 2. Creating alerts 3. Personal account 4. Publications search 5. Using subject terms

3 The basic EBSCO package offered under the national license EBSCO offers online access to the basic package of 12 databases mostly in English

4 Full Text databases Academic Search Complete Master File Premier Health Source-Nursing/Academic Edition Health Source-Consumer Edition AHFS Consumer Medication Information Newspaper Source Bibliographic databases Medline ERIC GreenFILE Library, Information Science& Technology Abstracts (LISTA) Teacher Reference Center European Views of Americas ( )

5 + 3 databases bought aside from the national licence ebook Academic Collection PsycARTICLES Business Source Complete with Regional Business News

6 The World's Most Comprehensive, Scholarly Full-Text Database for Multidisciplinary Research

7 Subjects

8 Overview Full-Text Journals Full-Text Peer-Reviewed Journals Academic Search Complete more than 8,800 more than 7,700 Access to more than 13,600 indexed and abstracted journals and other valuable resources as periodicals, reports, books.

9 Examples of full-text publications

10 Topical Video Content Academic Search Complete offers access to video content from the Associated Press, the world s leading news agency. collection of more than 60,000 videos updated monthly footage from 1930 to the present covers a wide variety of topics

11 Full-text databases for medical sciences, nursing and health research Content: full text from for more than 435 journals current health-related pamphlets 110 full-text health reference books more than 18,800 Clinical Reference Systems reports

12 Subjects Pediatric nursing Critical care Mental health Nursing management Medical law AIDS & cancer Diabetes Drugs and alcohol Aging Fitness Nutrition and dietetics Children's and women s health

13 Examples of the publications

14 AHFS Consumer Medication Information Trusted source and recognized standard for information about medicines AHFS is published by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

15 Full Text for Leading National (U.S.), International and Regional Newspapers

16 Television and Radio News Transcripts

17 Limited access Faculty of Education, Psychology and Art

18 Your Source for the Superior Research Published in APA Journals The database contains more than 191,000 peer-reviewed articles from more than 110 journals published by the American Psychological Association and affiliated organizations

19 Content of the database Current full-text journal articles written by esteemed researchers from across psychology and the behavioral and social sciences Many journal issues going back to Volume 1, Issue 1 Updated weekly!

20 Examples of Journals

21 Limited access Faculty of Economics and Management

22 User Experience The World's Definitive Scholarly Full-Text Business Database. Indexing and abstracts and full text are available back as far as Subjects: marketing and management economy finances and accountancy business trade and many other areas

23 Content more than 3,800 full-text journals, including nearly 2,000 peer-reviewed more than 40,000 author profiles more than 820 books and monographs case studies more than 1.1 million company profiles country economic reports industry reports seminar videos from Harvard Business School more than 2,500 market research reports SWOT analyses Supplemental access to Regional Business News

24 Examples of Journals Wyszukiwanie w bazach EBSCO

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55 SYMBOL MEANING EXAMPLE Searching for all words, Internet addiction in maintaining the exact order children * Masking a fragment of the word. The search words have the same core Child* Econom*? Masking a single letter Wom?n Ne?t # Used with different spellings of the same word Organi?ation Colo#r

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69 Effective information search 1. Analysis of the search request 2. Identification the relevant keywords 3. Determining the appropriate synonyms for selected keywords 4. Determining the relationship between those synonyms 5. Selecting the databases that will be searched 6. Starting the search using the chosen strategy 7. The result evaluation

70 Thank you for your attention Urszula Nowicka Training Specialist EBSCO Information Service Phone: (+48)