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HOW
D A T A B A S E S
EBSCOhost
(14 database subsets)
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ATLA Religion Database: (1949 onwards)
Provides citations for 1,600+ journals on Biblical studies,
world religions, church history, and religion in social issues.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete: (1978 onwards)
Provides citations and abstracts for 460+ journals on
communication and mass media.
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EconLit: (1969 onwards)
Provides citations and abstracts on accounting, economics,
finance, and government regulations.
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ERIC: Contains abstracts from 1,000+ education-related
journals and 2,200+ educational digests.
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Historical Abstracts: (1955 onwards)
Provides historical coverage of the world (excluding the US
and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Currently 1,700+
journals published throughout the world are covered.
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Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts:
(1960 onwards)
Provides citations for books, research reports, proceedings and
600+ periodicals about librarianship, info management, etc.
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MEDLINE:
Provides citations for 4,800+ current biomedical journals
about medicine, nursing, health care system, etc.
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Military & Government Collection:
Offers current news pertaining to military and government.
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The Music Index Online: (1973 onwards) Contains
surveyed data from 850+ international music periodicals.
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature:
A music bibliography featuring 540,000+ records on
traditional music, popular music, and classical music.
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RISM Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600
A comprehensive annotated index to music manuscripts
containing 580,000+ records.
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The Serials Directory:
Provides bibliographic info and pricing for 212,000+ serials.
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SPORTDiscus: (1800 onwards) Offers abstracts of journal
articles and dissertations on sport, fitness science, etc.
Hong Kong Baptist University Library
ACCESS
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Click EBSCOhost under “Electronic Resources - Featured
Databases” on the Library’s homepage.
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Click the checkbox(es) of database subset(s) that you want
to search.
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Click C OVERAGE
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Provides full text for 4,500+ scholarly, multi-disciplinary
journals. 3,700+ of them are peer-reviewed publications.
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MAIN SCREEN COMPONENTS
The default screen is BASIC SEARCH ; you can go to other
screens by clicking the following icons.
Search for images
(Only appears in Academic
Search Premier)
Retrieve articles
from specified
journal(s)
N A R R O W
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S E A R C H
R E S U LT S
To Narrow Search Results Using Specific Criteria.
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Choose one of the options under “Narrow Results by”:
• Source Type: Excludes all results that do not appear
in the specified type of source (academic journal,
magazine, newspaper, etc.)
Basic search
BASIC
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Advanced search
SEARCH
• Subject: Thesaurus Term: Show only those results that
have been assigned the selected thesaurus term.
Re-select databases
(KEYWORD)
• Geography: Show only those results that have been
assigned the selected geographic term.
To Retrieve Journal Articles Using Keywords.
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After selecting a criterion to narrow your results, you will
get a new list of articles. The new list can be narrowed
further using the same method.
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Input keywords into the search box.
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To limit your search to full text articles, to a particular
journal title, by date range, or by other criteria, use the
options under “Limit your results”.
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Click to start searching.
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ADVANCED SEARCH (KEYWORD)
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SEARCH
To Retrieve Journal Articles Using Keywords.
Operator Search Example
--AND
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Input a search term in a search box.
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Use the pull-down menu displaying “Select a Field
(optional)” to select which field each search term should
appear.
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Use the pull down menus displaying “and” to select the
needed operator (and, or, not) between each term.
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To limit your search to full text articles, to a particular
journal title, by date range, or by other criteria, use the
options under “Limit your results”.
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Click health care
TIPS
Search Results
Phrase search
E X P O R T
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cat OR kitten Articles contain either or both terms
NOT
cat NOT dog Articles contain “cat” but not “dog”
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wom?n
Use one ? to represent one character
Example:woman, women
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child*
Get all words that start with “child”
Example:child, children, childhood
Nn
adult N3
learning
Articles contain “adult” within 3
words of “learning” in any order
Example:adult learning,
adult distance learning,
learning adult,
learning habits of adult
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adult W3
learning
Same as above, but order is specified
Example:adult learning,
adult distance learning
SEARCH
icon will change to w
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To read the abstract of an article, click its title.
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To read an article’s full text if available, click:
Full text in HTML file (plain text)
Full text in PDF file
Linked Full Text Full text from other sources
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After selecting all needed articles/citations, click in the top right corner.
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Click the checkbox(es) of the needed record(s) in the folder
list.
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To print selected citation(s) or HTML full-text article(s),
click .
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To email selected citation(s) or full-text article(s), click .
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To save selected citation(s) or HTML full-text article(s) to
your computer, click .
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To directly export citations to bibliographic management
software such as RefWorks, click .
HTML Full Text Full text in HTML file (with images)
PDF Full Text
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RESULTS
to start searching.
HTML Full Text
O n t h e l i s t o f S E A R C H R E S U LT S , c l i c k o n
Add to folder of all needed articles or citations. The
cat AND dog Articles contain both terms
OR
R E C O R D S
If an article does not have any of the above full text links,
please click to check if the HKBU
Library has access to the article from another source.
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For further assistance, please visit the Reference Desk or call
3411-7363 (Main Library), 3411-2714 (CML) or 3411-3170 (SMCL).
The HKBU Library’s homepage is <http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/lib>.
REF/LL99/09-09/1000
Last updated: Sep 2009