Finding Articles in EBSCOhost
Go to the BCC Library home page: http://bellevuecollege.edu/
Click on the Library link.
Find the EBSCOhost link under Periodicals/Databases and click on it.
If you are off-campus, a box will come up asking for your last name and your student number.
Scroll down the list of databases to MAS Ultra-School Edition and open it.
Check the boxes beside
· BCC Holdings
· Full Text
Type your search term into the box. If you have typed the word or words correctly, you should retrieve several records. Open a record by clicking on the title link.
Each record includes –
Citation information:
- Title of the article
- Author(s)
- Title of periodical
- Date the article was published
- Volume number of the periodical (based on year)
- Issue number of the periodical (based on the week, month or season)
- Page on which the article begins in the printed periodical
Database information about the article:
- Abstract or summary of the article
- Length of article in number of pages
- Information about graphs and pictures in the article
- Subject terms, place names, personal names
- Lexile (Reading level) (Present only in the MAS database)
- Full text word count
If the BCC Library subscribes to the periodical, the record will tell you how many years are owned by the library.
If the Full Text of the article is in the database, it will be available either in HTML format or PDF format. You may e-mail or print either format.
To focus the articles you retrieve on a particular aspect of the search term, add the word AND in the search box, along with another term.
Examples:
Deforestation AND climate
Deforestation AND global warming
Deforestation AND landslides
Brain drain AND Africa
Brain drain AND developing countries
AIDS AND statistics
AIDS AND orphans
To retrieve more articles to select from, expand your search by adding OR between words.
Notice how the number of records you retrieve gets larger.
Always put you “OR statement” inside parentheses, so that the last word in the series remains attached to your primary search term.
Examples:
Deforestation AND (climate OR weather OR drought)
Brain drain AND (Eastern Europe OR Russia OR Soviet Union)
AIDS AND (statistics OR figures OR numbers) AND Africa
AIDS AND (orphans OR families)
The records are automatically sorted by date, so the most recent one is listed first.
It is a good idea to write down the search statements that work best for you.
Please ask the reference librarians for help if you need it.
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