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EBSCO DATABASES

BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON EbscoHost:
EBSCOhost databases locate mainly journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, NOT books!

 Approximately one half of the journals included in EBSCO databases are full-text, while the rest of the collection includes abstracts (which is a little paragraph about the article).

 "EBSCO" is kind of like a brand name--it's the vendor that creates a lot of our databases.  Sometime's it's nice to know the "brand name" of a database because most databases published by the same vendor WILL WORK IN THE SAME WAY...so once you know how to use one Ebsco database, you probably know how to use all Ebsco databases. 

Here are just a few of the Ebsco databases we have at the COCC Barber Library:

Academic Search Premier
This database is designed mainly for academic institutions that need access to more "scholarly" information.  It covers a variety of subjects, including business, social sciences, humanities, science and education. Most probably this is the main database you'll be using for your college papers.

Health Source Consumer Edition
This database covers nutrition, exercise, medical self-care, drugs and alcohol and other health care topics. It provides access to health periodicals as well as health pamphlets and health reference books.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
This database provides  medical and nursing articles from professional magazines.

Business Source Premier
Covers business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and other business topics.

ERIC
Provides citation and abstract information from over 750 educational journals and related documents from the Educational Resource Information Center and educational symposium report literature dating back to 1967

MasterFILE Premier
Provides access to periodicals on a broad range of topics including general interests, business, health, etc. In other words, this is your access to "popular" type of periodical publications.

Newspaper Source
Provides selected full text articles from 143 U.S. and international newspapers.

REMOTE ACCESS TO EBSCO DATABASES: When accessing COCC databases from off-campus locations you will be asked to enter your last name and your COCC student id number.  Your ID number (assuming you are a COCC student) is your 82... number.

COCC ACCESS TO EBSCO DATABASES: Go to the Library homepage and head for the pull down menu that looks like this: 

Use this pull down menu to select a subject category for databases. Each subject category lists a bunch of different databases.

Or, choose the all databases option--to take a look at ALL of our many, many databases!  
 
KEYWORD SEARCHING IN EBSCOHOST: Any of the Ebsco databases will automatically start you off at the advanced keyword searching screen.  Type your keywords into the search form provided. 

Ebsco databases use the AND, OR, and NOT commands.  Use ( ) to encompass your sets of synonyms. Use * for truncation. Here are some additional search techniques particularly useful for EbscoHost databases:

  I can use the wildcard ? to stand for the a in woman or the e in women.
wom?n and learning                            
 

I add in another concept/keyword to narrow and focus my search:

wom?n and learning and college*         
 

A different topic: the idea here is to locate articles comparing girls' and boys' learning.

girls and boys and learning
 

I want  to omit those articles that focus on teaching as opposed to learning so I use the not command:

girls and boys and learning not teach*