OARE Module 5B:
Searching for Scientific Research
Using Environmental Issues and
Policy Index (EBSCO)
Table of Contents
• About Environmental Issues and Policy
Index
• Using the Index
• Quick/Keyword Search
• Results/Records View Pages
• Open, Save and Print Search Results
• Refine Results/Search History
• Advanced Search
Environmental Issues and Policy Index
• Subjects include: agricultural biotechnology, air quality,
aquatic pollution, bacteriology, ecology, energy resources,
environmental biotechnology, environmental engineering,
environmental impact statements (U.S.), hazardous waste,
industrial hygiene, microbiology, pollution: land, air, water,
noise, solid waste, radioactive, risk assessment, safety
science, toxicology & toxic emissions, water pollution,
waste management and water resource issues
• Abstracts and citations from over 10,000 serials including
scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports,
monographs, books and government publications.
• Some of these journal titles and full-text articles are
available from OARE.
Opening OARE
From this webpage, login to
OARE and the Contents page.
Enter the Institution’s User Name and
Password in the appropriate boxes,
then click on the Sign in button.
Type in user name and password
exactly as provided by your institution.
Passwords are case-sensitive.
Click Login
To open Environmental Index, click on the
Search inside OARE full-text through
database and article searching list.
Environmental Issues and
Policy Index (EBSCO)
Once Browse databases list is
open, click on Environmental
Issues & Policy Index (EBSCO).
EBSCO Host notes that OARE is
the client. This means there will
be access to full-text articles.
The default page is the Basic Search
display. We will enter the pesticides AND
water quality in the search box and click
on Search.
Note the other options – Advanced Search
and Search History.
There are 1321 Results for this search.
To view the first article, we will click on
the OARE fulltext icon. Another
important option is the Add to folder.
After clicking on the OARE fulltext icon, there are
multiple links to the article and journal. If these
links do not grant access to the full-text article,
there are various steps to solve this problem (see
the next slide). See the next slide – (Module 3
Appendix) Access Problems and Solutions is an
overview of ‘problem solving’ options.
OARE Module 3 Appendix:
Access Problems and Solutions for
Full-text Articles
This module is an overview of numerous access
problems to OARE and/or the other R4L portals.
Included is information on how to access a journal if the
publisher does not immediately grant access –
something that periodically occurs when using the
Environmental Issues and Policy Index.
From the right column, now
opened is the Abstract for this
article. Note the option to Add
to folder. Now click on the
Detailed Record.
The + symbol icon adds
citations to the folder
without opening abstract.
Displayed is the Detailed Record.
Note the Subject Terms, Keywords
and Abstract listing. The right column
contains links to multiple tools including
Print, Email, Save and Export.
Note the Folder has items box.
Listed are the articles that have
been added to the folder.
Now displayed is the Folder with the
tagged articles with the Print, Email,
Save as File and Export options.
Displayed is the Print Manager option.
Displayed is the Email Manager option
The final display is the
Save Manager option
Re-open the results of the pesticides
AND water quality search. This can
be done by clicking on the Search
History link or using the web
browser’s back button several times.
In Refine Results, there are several
options to limit the results. Displayed
here are the Linked Full Text,
References Available, Publication
Dates and Source Types options.
The Publication Date bar has been moved
to limit the search to 2012 – 2015
publications. After clicking on the Update
icon, the search results # is 310.
Note the Limiters list info and the X symbol
that is used to clear the search results.
Note the Subject Thesaurus
Term list that also can be
used to refine a search.
This is the Search History page. Note that the initial
and refined searches are listed. For each search,
there are View Results, View Details or Edit
options. Other options are to complete a Search with
AND or Search with OR or Delete Searches.
Now opened is the Advanced Search
page which gives you numerous options
- to make your search more precise.
Note the options from the drop down
menu for the initial keyword entry. There
also are various Search modes and
Limit your results options.
The Sign In to My EBSCOhost page has been
opened. You will need this personal account to
use some of the Environmental Index options
including viewing previously saved searches.
Click on Create a new Account.
You can access this page by clicking on the Sign
In option that is on the top of the search page.
Exercises
Complete Module 5B exercises #1 - 3 in
the accompanying OARE exercises
document
Updated: July 2015