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Best Practices: Ebscohost: Do You Need To Find Key Articles On Your Research Topic?

The document provides 8 steps for using EBSCOhost databases to effectively find the most relevant 5 key articles on a research topic: 1) Use the advanced search screen and search fields like subject terms, 2) Employ Boolean operators, 3) Limit to full text availability, 4) Refine search results, 5) Re-sort the result list, 6) Limit results further, 7) Use the article preview hover feature, and 8) Save articles to the My EBSCOhost folder.

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Best Practices: Ebscohost: Do You Need To Find Key Articles On Your Research Topic?

The document provides 8 steps for using EBSCOhost databases to effectively find the most relevant 5 key articles on a research topic: 1) Use the advanced search screen and search fields like subject terms, 2) Employ Boolean operators, 3) Limit to full text availability, 4) Refine search results, 5) Re-sort the result list, 6) Limit results further, 7) Use the article preview hover feature, and 8) Save articles to the My EBSCOhost folder.

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Best Practices: EBSCOhost

I need to find 5 key articles on my topic

Do you need to find key articles on your research topic?


EBSCOhost features several useful tools to assist you in finding the most
relevant articles to your research topic.

Here are 8 steps you can follow to help ensure successful research when using
EBSCOhost databases.

Creating a Search

1. Select the
Advanced Search
Screen – Using
Advanced Search
screen allows you to
refine your search
by selecting a
search field from the
drop-down menu for
each term you
enter. Searchable
fields include
Subject Term,
Author, Title, and
Journal Name.
2. Use Boolean
operators – Select And, Or, or Not from the drop-down menus next to the
Find fields to combine your lines of search.
3. Limit Your Search – Be sure to check the Full Text limiter in the Limit your
results area, to make sure you only get articles that contain the full text
available from EBSCOhost. If you would like, you can also limit your result list
items to:
 Publication Type – including Periodicals, Newspapers, or Books.
 Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals – include only articles from
publications that have been reviewed and/or qualified by a selected
panel of acknowledged experts in the field of study covered by the
journal.
 Published Date From – search for articles within a specified date
range.

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The Result List
On the Result List, you can refine your results in several ways.

4. Refine Your Results


– Under Refine your
results in the left-hand
column of the Result
List, you can apply
more limiters to your
search. Click the
Show More link to
access all limiters,
expanders, and search
modes available to
you.

5. Re-sort the Result


List – Click the drop-
down Sort menu to re-
sort your result list by
Date, Source, Author, or Relevance.

6. Limit Your Results again – Still too many results appearing? Under the
column on the left, narrow your results by Source Type, Subject term,
Publication, or Geography.

Article Preview Hover


7. Preview Article Information
– The article preview hover
feature saves you time by
allowing you to preview
article detail information right
from your result list.

Simply hold your pointer over


the hover icon at the end of
an article’s title to read a
partial abstract, access full
text, add the article to the
folder, or access the full
article details.

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My EBSCOhost Folder
8. Save your
articles – The My
EBSCOhost
folder lets you
permanently store
articles, images,
and persistent
links in your own
personal folder.

My EBSCOhost
also allows you to
create custom
folders, which offer you the ability to organize your research and also share it
with other EBSCOhost users.

Creating your own My EBSCOhost folder is easy. Simply click the Sign In link
at the top of the screen. Click I’m a new user and fill in your information to
set up your own free personal folder.

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