Access: At the WSC Library Home Page (http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/), click on Quick Links to Databases.
Click on Academic Search Premier.  Note:  You will have to logon to the databases if you are off-campus.  Continue through the guide or Start Searching.

• Enter your search terms, or keywords, in the dialog box Next to the EBSCOHost logo. Click on Search.
• Under Search Options, select a Search Mode by clicking the radio button or box next to Boolean/Phrase,  Find all my search terms, Find any of my search terms, SmartText Searching Hint, Apply related words, or Also search within the full text of the articles.
• Limit your results to Full Text, or Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals, or to a specific publication.

• Other Search Methods: At the top of the Ebscohost screen, you should see a toolbar with buttons:
• Click on the Keyword button (default) to use "words, phrases or even complete sentences" for your search.
• Click on the Publications button to find a magazine name in the database.
• Click the Subject Terms button to browse a list of subjects in an A-Z index.
• Click on Cited References to look for materials cited in specific articles or by specific authors.  The tool is more effective when used from a retrieved citation (see below). This gives you the option of seeing how many times an article is cited by others.
• Click on More and select Images to access the Ebsco Image Collections Database, or select Indexes to search and browse lists of subjects, authors, journals, etc.

• Click on Advanced Search (located just below the dialog box on  the Basic search screen).
• Type in your search term. To select a field (author, article title, subject, abstract, journal name, etc.) to be searched, or leave on "Select A Field (optional) to search the default fields (author, article title, subjects, abstract, journal title).
• You may use the commands AND, OR, NOT to connect search terms in various fields.
• Scroll down on the page to limit your search by Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals, Published Date, Publication (Journal Name), Publication Type (for example:
• Periodical, Newspaper, Primary Source Document), Document Type (note: Use this to search for articles rather than book reviews.), Number of Pages, etc. Click Search.

Results from Academic Search Premier are first displayed in a list format including:  Article Title,  Author,  Source (Newspaper, Journal, or Magazine name), Date, Volume #, Issue, and page/column numbers.  To the left of the list are choices to subdivide all results by Academic Journals, Magazines, Newspapers, Books/Monographs.

• Full Text article availability: In the list, look for  or .  Click on the highlighted article title or one of the Full Text choices to access the complete article.
• If the article is not available in this database, click the Check Availability link to search the Ely Library's Full Text Periodical Directory.
• Click on located below the full text links to mark records for printing or downloading later. NOTE: PDF full text will not print out from a Folder list.
• You can narrow your search by clicking one of the subjects listed on the left side of screen. (Not recommended)

From the RESULT LIST:
To retrieve articles one by one, click on the article title or on one of the following icons  .  To retrieve a list of citations or the full text of articles (but not PDF Full Text), click to Add the citations that you want, then click on the Folder View link under on the right side of the page to retrieve your list. Select one of the following icons:

   This will bring you to the Print Manager. Select the options you want to print and click on the print button .

• You can find out how many pages to expect before you print by clicking on "Estimate Number of Pages"located just below the Print button. Remember that PDF Full Text will not print from this screen.
• You can also select a Citation Format (APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, etc.) to include in the printout.
• Click Print and hit enter. When your print job is complete, click on  to return to your search.
• NOTE:  To Print PDF Full Text: Click on the . Link. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. Click on the Adobe Printer icon toward the left of the Article window. 

• Under "Include when sending," chose from the following:
• PDF as separate attachment (when available)
• Standard Fields (Detailed citation and abstract, Brief Citation, etc.)
• Citation Format (APA, MLA, etc.)
• Click on Send. You will get an acknowledgement and can then click on Continue to return to the your search. Your e-mail message will arrive from ephost@epnet.com with the subject heading you provided.

• Under Articles, chose Additional citation details and abstract; HTML Full Text (when available); or HTML link(s) to article(s). Note: You must be looking at a PDF Full Text document in order to save a file in PDF format.
• Click Save.
• Choose file from your browser, then save as.
• Be sure to save as a plain text file (.txt) or an HTML file (.html). Name your file.
• Click  to return to  your search.

• Direct Export to EndNote, ProCite, or Reference Manager
• Generic bibliographic management software
• Citations in BibTeX format
• Citations in MARC21 format
• Direct Export to RefWorks
• Click 

  


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