Transcript Using EBSCO
Using EBSCO Get to this wonderful online source from school or home . . . Through the AOMS Library Reference website What is EBSCO EBSCO is a collection of databases of newspaper, magazine, and encyclopedia articles and images for Students Professionals General Interest and Information Databases for Students Middle Search Plus EBSCO Animals Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia Newspaper Source Health Source Plus Business Source Elite Primary Search MAS Full Text Ultra Databases for Teachers ERIC MasterFILE Premier Academic Search Elite Professional Development Collection Of course – anyone can use any of the available databases!!! How do you get to EBSCO? Open Netscape (or another web browser) to this location – the AOMS Reference webpage Go http://www.teleport.com/~skelsey/reference.html …and here you are Click on the EBSCO icon This takes you to the OSLIS Secondary school resources page OSLIS – Oregon School Library Information System Here you can look at Tutorials about searching on the internet or doing bibliographic citations for webpages . . . OR Click on the EBSCO icon again to enter the databases At school, you will automatically enter EBSCO… If you are logging in from home, you will be prompted for a User ID and Password For Topic Search, EBSCO Middle School or EBSCO High School use - - - User ID = oslis Password = middle For EBSCO Elementary Host or Searchasaurus use - - - User ID = oslis Password = elem Check the squares next to the databases you want to search . . . Then press ENTER Lists of databases available Type in your search terms . . . Check the box by Full Text to limit your search to whole articles . . . Then press SEARCH You should get a list of articles related to your search terms. Click on their blue titles see each article. Here is the article titled “Danger on Foot” - if you scroll down, you will see the text of the article - there is a button for printing or e-mailing the article at the top and the bottom! Just put in an e-mail address and a subject and press SUBMIT to e-mail the article! Let’s do a subject search with EBSCO. . . Open Netscape (or another web browser) to this location – the AOMS Reference webpage Go http://www.teleport.com/~skelsey/reference.html