The library database EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier is a tool for locating magazine and journal articles on a wide variety of topics.
On the library's "Find Articles" page, you'll find EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier listed under "Most Popular."
On the EBSCOhost main search screen, put a check mark in the "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" box if your articles must come from scholarly journals. Keywords for the search go in the box labeled "Find."
For this example, I want to find articles about elderly drivers involved in car accidents. I'll use these two "key" terms, linking them with "and". So, in the "Find" box, I type: elderly drivers and car accidents. Then hit the enter key or click the Search button to run the search.
Only seven results! I need more than that...Under "Narrow results by Subject," EBSCOhost suggests terms to help me. I searched for "car accidents," but here I see the term "traffic accidents."
In my original search, elderly drivers and car accidents, I'll change the word "car" to "traffic" to see if that improves my results, then run the search again.
Now I have 36 results. Much better! Let's take a look at them... I might want some of these articles, but what if I'm not sure? Clicking on the title can tell you more about the article.
On the detailed page about the article, I can find more keywords for my search, if I need more ideas. These are listed under "Subject Terms" and "Keywords." The abstract is a short summary of the article, to help me decide if I want it or not.
I'll go back to the Result List. Now, how do I get copies of the articles I like? If a link for "PDF Full Text" or "HTML Full Text" or "Linked Full Text" appears after the title, then these articles have the Full Text instantly available. Just follow those links to view the article.
PDF full text is like a photocopy of the original printed page. You can save it, print it, or e-mail it to yourself (using the e-mail link provided by EBSCOhost).
For any article that does not have a "full text" link following it, click the "Search for Full Text" button. Note: If you use a screen reader, this button link will say, "Search for full text. A new window will open."
"Search for Full Text" opens a new window where it searches for my article. In this case, the article I'm looking for is available full-text, but in a different library database. The screen tells me, "Full text available via Science Direct Freedom Collection." Click on the database name or use the GO button to get it. Note: if you use a screen reader that reads only links, follow the link that is a database name, or the GO link immediately after it.
Another window will open. In this case, I jumped straight to the text of the article. But watch for links to the PDF version! Sometimes, viewing the article may require one more click. For more details, try the OLLIE tutorial "Using Search for Full Text."
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