EBSCOHost Databases - Sunway Campus Library

EBSCOHOST DATABASES
A Quick Guide
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
THEATRE & DANCE
Academic Search Complete
9,100 full-text journals with content dating back
to 1887.
eBook Collection
View the full text of books.
MAS Ultra
Provided full text for more than 550 popular
magazines and current events publications. For
school level.
Primary Search
Provides full text for more than 70 popular
elementary school magazines and an image
collection of over 450,000 items.
International Bibliography
of Theatre & Dance
Contains more than 450 full
text journal titles on ballet,
cinema, drama, film, mime,
opera and theatre.
LIBRARY & INFORMATION
SCIENCE
Library, Information Science &
Technology Abstracts
Abstracts on bibliometrics,
cataloguing, information
management, librarianship and
online information retrieval.
PSYCHOLOGY
PsyARTICLES
Contains more than 164,000
articles from 80 journals with
information dating as far back as
1894.
EDUCATION
ART & DESIGN
Art Museum Gallery
Offers access to 165,000 high quality art images and related multimedia
BUSINESS
Business Source Complete
Full text content includes more than 3,800
journals, 1,000 books, 9,000 case studies, one
million company profiles, 2,000 industry reports
and many more.
Regional Business News
100 full text journals, newspapers and
newswires for the US and Canada.
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Computer Source
Full text of 300 publications.
ERIC
Contains more than 1.4 million
records and links to over 337,000
full text documents from ERIC
back to 1966.
ENVIRONMENT
GreenFILE
Contains more than 612,000
indexing and abstracting records
and Open Access full text for
more than 9,000 records.
COMMUNICATION & MEDIA STUDIES
Communication Source
Provides full text for more than 800 titles with content pertaining
to communication, linguistics, rhetoric & discourse, speechlanguage pathology, media studies and related fields
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How to access EBSCOhost Databases
1. Access the Library Homepage at http://library.sunway.edu.my
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2. Under E-Resources, click on E-Databases.
3. On the E-Databases page, click on alphabet E to go to “E” page for a list of databases.
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4. On the E “page”, click on EBSCOhost.
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5. Type in your Library User ID and Pin.
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User ID : For students the User ID is the student ID on the student card.
For staff the User ID is the serial card number on the verso of the staff card.
Pin
: By default is 1234. These can be changed later from “My Account”.
6. Click on Login.
7. A list of EBSCOhost databases is displayed.
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If you wish to access a particular database, e.g.: Business Source Complete, click on the name listed.
However, if you wish to access more than one database to search, e.g.: Academic Search Complete and
Business Source Complete, you need to: a) check the boxes next to the databases, and
b) click on the button Continue.
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Searching EBSCOhost database: Academic Search Complete
From the EBSCOhost databases page, click on the name Academic Search Complete.
Using Basic Search in Academic Search Complete.
1. Type in search term, e.g.: “natural disaster”.
2. You may also Limit your results by checking the relevant boxes, e.g.:
Full Text – Check this box if you want records which carry full-text documents.
Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals – Check this box if you are looking for scholarly articles that
Have been reviewed.
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3. Click on Search.
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4. A list of records found is displayed.
5. Refine your search results by checking the relevant boxes of these options e.g. Full Text.
6. Click on Show More to see more options for refining your search results. Select options and click on
Update.
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7. To select an item, click on the title.
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8. To read the full-text, click on pdf.
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9. The detailed record of that title is shown. From the detailed Record, you can:
a) Click on PDF Full Text to read the entire article OR
b) You can select any of the options available such as Print, Email, Save and etc under Tools.
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c) Click on Cite and you will see how the chose article reference can be cited in various styles,
e.g. Harvard, APA, MLA etc.
Using Advanced Search in Academic Search Complete.
Advanced Search provides more than one search box to facilitate combined field searches, such as author
and title search, title and subject search.
1. From the EBSCOhost databases page, click on the name Academic Search Complete.
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2. On the screen that follows, click on Advanced Search.
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3. Enter the search term(s) in the boxes. Example: combined author + title search.
4. Type search term e.g.: natural disaster, and select Title.
5. Type search term e.g.: Gasper, and select Author.
6. Click on Search.
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7. A list of record found is displayed.
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8. To select an item, click on the title.
9. To read the full-text, click on pdf.
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[This document is adapted and extracted from the EBSCOhost Site]
Library Guide no.21, Document no. LG/021. Issue 13, 28 March 2016