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EBSCOHost: Beginning your search

How to use Academic Search Premier, an interdisciplinary database, along with retrieving journal content, finding eBooks, using EBSCOHost Mobile, and more

Beginning your search: Boolean operators

This is the intial advanced search box you'll see in all EBSCOHost databases.

If you leave Select a field (optional) in place, the search terms you enter in the search boxes will find articles that contain your terms in the article summary (also known as an abstract), subject terms, and citation.  You may change the pull-down menus next to the search boxes to search by AU Author, TI Title of the article, SU Subject Terms, So Journal Name, and more.

The area just above the three search boxes displays the database you are now searching - Academic Search Premier.  By clicking on Choose Databases you can select a different EBSCO database to search.  The terms you enter in the search boxes will be retained when you change databases. 

LIMITING YOUR RESULTS

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  • Click the boxes beside full text and scholarly/peer-reviewed to retrieve only Scholarly/peer-reviewed articles with full text available.
  • To find articles published within certain dates, use the pull-down menu to select a month and fill in the year box with the appropriate year.