Enter your search terms or keywords in the dialog box labeled Find. Click on Search.

Use an asterisk * to search for derivations of words: injur* finds injuries, injury, injured.

• Limiting to Linked Full-Text will restrict results to documents availabe in full-text from EBSCOhost databases. (NOTE: this limit is not recommended as it will dramatically reduce your results)
• Limiting to Year Published allows you to enter ranges of years for the publication dates of documents.
• Limiting to English Abstract Available will display documents with abstracts in English, but not necessarily documents published in English.
• Limiting by Language will find documents published in a particular language (Advanced Search only).
• Limiting by Country will find documents published in a particular country (Advanced Search only).
• Limiting by Publication Type will restrict results to types such as Journal Article, Videocassette, etc.
• Limiting by Database Subset will find documents from a particular subset such as "Handicapped/Disabled Sport and Recreation Documents", or international document subsets such as "Heracles" (France), "Atlantes" (Spain),  AAFLA, the Olympic Museum Library Database, and other databases.

• Apply related words will include results with words similar to your search terms.
• Also search within the full-text will search your keywords within the full-text of articles in the database.
• Boolean/Phrase will search your terms together as a phrase and separately joining then with AND.

• Click on Advanced Search (just below the Basic Search dialog box).
• You may Select a Field to search such as TI title, SO source, SU Subjects
• You may use the connectors AND, OR, NOT to connect search terms in various fields.

• Results will be listed chronologically, with the most recent publications listed first.
• Choose links from Narrow Results by Subject to focus your results on a particular topic.
• Limit your results by Linked Full Text or English Abstract Available or adjust the dates and click Update Results.
• Click linked titles for full citation records.
• Cite Icon : Provides citation formats for the record you are viewing in  AMA, APA, Chicago/Turabian, MLA, and Vancouver/ICMJE, and it allows you to export the citation to bibliographic management software - EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager, RefWorks, BibTeX, etc.

• Notes:This title is held locally indicates that the library subscribes to print copies of the journal. Check the Full Text Periodical Directory (http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/cgi-bin/ft_journals.cgi) to determine coverage dates for our print subscription.
• Full Text availability: From your results, click   , , or .
• For articles without a full-text link, choose Click Here to Check Availability in the WSC Full Text Periodical Directory and search for the periodical in which the article was published. The Directory will determine whether the library has access to the full-text.

• Create a list of citations by clicking for each citation.
• click on the  link to retrieve your list.
• Select one of the following:
• Print button : This will bring you to the Print Manager.
• Click on "Estimate Number of Pages" to see total number of pages to be printed.
• Click Print and hit enter.
• NOTE:  PDF Full Text can only be printed from the Adobe PDF version.

Click on the  Link. (Adobe Acrobat Reader must already be installed)
In the Adobe file, click on the Adobe Printer icon  to print.
• Email button :  This will bring you to the Email Manager.
• Enter your full e-mail address (e.g. bsmith1234@wsc.ma.edu) and a Subject.
• 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 you provided.
• Save button  :  This will bring you to the Save Manager. Save your document to a formatted disk in the A drive or to a USB flash/thumb drive
• 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.

• The Thesaurus allows you to focus your search by identifying and searching subject headings.
• To access the Thesaurus, from the top toolbar click the Thesaurus link.

• Enter a subject in the Browse for textbox search and click Browse
• This will bring you to the alphabetical listing of Thesaurus terms. Click any term to display details screen.

• The details screen shows Scope Notes (definition), Broader Terms and Narrower Terms for subjects.
• Check relevant terms and add to search by clicking Add.

• Add to search using "or" searches for either of the terms. (using "and" requires all terms in the results).
• The Thesaurus will plug terms into the top search box. Click Search to perform search for these terms.

URL:  http://www.lib.wsc.ma.edu/sp/sprtdsc.htm
Page maintained by Oliver Zeff, updated 8-5-08/bh