Academic Search Complete
What Is Academic Search Complete And When Is It
Useful?
Academic Search Complete is a database of
articles and article citations
from over 9,300 journals and magazines in virtually every academic
subject. Use Academic Search Complete to find articles when researching
topics in social sciences, physical sciences, technology, and
humanities.
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Strengths:
- Broad scope of topics
- High quality of the journals
included -many are peer-reviewed
- Sheer number of journals indexed
- Full text provided for most
documents (html, txt, and/or pdf format)
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Weakness :
- Too big? You may have to
sift through many records to find the ones most relevant to you.
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How Can I Find Articles
Using Academic Search Complete?
BASIC SEARCH: Looks for your search term in the
author, article title, subject, and abstract fields.
EXAMPLE: You
want to read some recent articles about charter schools, and you only
want to see records for which full text is provided.
- On the
Basic Search page
(see arrow), enter charter schools in the Find box.
- In the Refine Search section, check the
box marked Full Text.
- Limit the range of publication dates to your desired
time frame.
- Click the Search button.
SEARCH
TIP
: You can limit or expand your search with various options in
the Refine Search section, or by using Boolean terms (AND, OR,
and NOT)
in your query.
ADVANCED
SEARCH: Allows you to search within specified fields.
EXAMPLE: How do I find documents
produced by the former president George Bush, but not any by his son
George W. Bush?
- On the
Advanced
Search page, enter your
subject term in the Find box.
- Select the Author field.
- Select not as your Boolean
operator.
- Enter the term to exclude in the box
next to not and choose the Author field.
- Click the Search button.
SEARCH TIPS
- You can combine different terms using Boolean operators
(AND, OR, or
NOT), each term in whichever field you specify.
- If searching for an author, type in <last
name>, <first name>.
IMAGE SEARCH: Allows you to search for images in
various categories, such as photos
of people, maps, or flags. Enter your search term, then select the
category or categories or interest.
EXAMPLE: You want to look at a map
of Norway .
- ClickImages button
on the green bar to get to the
image search page.
- Enter Norway
in the Find box.
- Select Maps as the
category and click
the Search button.
CITED REFERENCES:
Academic Search Complete also lets you search for articles that have
been cited in other articles.
- Click on the Cited
References button
and enter an author, title, source, or year.
- Academic Search
Complete displays a list of
article records that meet your criteria and
that have been cited by other articles.
- With another click, you can see
a list of citing articles.
BROWSING:
This
is helpful when you want to see what types of things are included in
the database but you don't know exactly what to search for.
- You can browse
alphabetical
or numerical lists of indexed terms, including
author, ISBN or ISSN, journal name, and many others.
- To browse the
indexes, click on the Indexes button
on the green bar.
If you want more help,
click Database Help to get information about
Academic Search Complete, or "Help" to get information about
EBSCOhost
databases in general.
This page was revised by Jennifer Coffey in Spring 2006.
This page was revised by Julia Mitschke in Spring 2007.
INF 382S: Library Instruction and Information Literacy, taught by Dr. Loriene Roy
School of Information, The University of Texas at Austin
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