General Information

• Published by EBSCOhost

Strengths

• Emphasizes scholarly literature, especially peer-reviewed journals.
• Contains accurate, high-quality articles.
• Updated daily.
• Users can find the most current information.

• Not all of the articles are available in full-text, so users may have to obtain some articles through ILL or travel to another library.

Uses

• Research – Graduate students and university faculty conducting research in these fields can access thorough and current information regarding their areas of interest.
• Practice – Practitioners in the medical field of psychiatry or in social sciences such as psychology can keep abreast of the latest developments in their fields.
• Undergraduate class assignments – Professors often require students to cite peer-reviewed journals.
• Consumer Information -- In cases where a user inquires about an extremely recent development such as new treatment strategy, this database could prove useful.

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Types Of Searches

Basic Search

Instructions :

• Choose search terms (The article title, article subject headings, author, and abstract fields will be searched.)
• Set limiters (i.e., options that restrict the search) and expanders (i.e., options that enlarge the scope of the search)
• Search!

Example Search:

• Type “alcoholism” in the Find box.
• Set limiters: Full Text, Peer Reviewed, Published Date: 1999 to 2004; Set expanders: Also search for related words.
• Search!

Instructions:

• Choose search terms and search fields.
• Select the appropriate Boolean operators (i.e., commands that combine words in a search).
• Set limiters and expanders (Note: The Advanced search contains a broader selection of limiters and expanders.)
• Search!

Example Search:

• Type “Smith” in the first Find box and choose the AU author field from the drop-down menu. Type “school bullying” in the second Find box and choose the TI Title field from the drop-down menu.
• Boolean operators are preset to “AND”
• Set limiters: Full Text, Peer Reviewed, Document Type: Articles; No expanders for this search.
• Search!

Searching Tips

• Use boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT)
• Use parenthesis in the search query

Example: (adolescents or teenagers) AND depression

The information in parenthesis will be searched first. In this example, all hits (i.e., retrieved records) will contain information about “adolescents and depression” or “teenagers and depression.” The same search without the parenthesis would also retrieve all of the entries that contain the term adolescents regardless of whether of not they also include the term depression.

Use wildcard (?) and truncation (*) symbols

Examples:

• Depress* retrieves entries with depression, depressed, or depressing
• Parox?tine retrieves entries with paroxetine