EBSCOhost Advanced

Search Guided Style

Tutorial

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 Welcome to EBSCOs Advanced Search, Guided Style tutorial, where you will learn about the key
Advanced Search screen features, from limiters and expanders, the ability to save searches, set up
Search and Journal Alerts, search Publications and browse Indexes, to how to manage search results in
your personalized My EBSCOhost folder.
CONDUCT SEARCH: Guided Style searching allows you to simultaneously search for different terms in
varying article citation fields. Begin by entering a search term in the first Find field, and then select
which field(s) to search, from the drop-down list, such as Subject Terms.
 Guide your search using a second term, such as a publication name, and select the SO Journal
Name field. You may enter a third search term and choose the All Text field to have EBSCOhost look
within the full text of all articles for your term. Note: You can conduct command line searches using
the appropriate field tags, e.g., SO for Journal Name, in front of the search term in the Find field.
SET LIMITERS: Under the Refine Search tab, the Advanced Search Screen offers additional search
limiters over the Basic Search Screen, for increased result refinement. For example, you can limit
results to Full Text articles featured as a Cover Story. Click Search to view the Result List.
 RESULT LIST: You can sort the Result List by Date, Source, Author, or Relevance using the drop-down
list at the top. You can also view results sorted by any subject shown along the left of the list. Results can
be saved in the temporary session folder by clicking on the Add folder icon. To place a link to the search
in your personal folder, click on Add this search to folder.
My EBSCOhost PERSONALIZED FOLDER: To save results beyond the current session, log in to My
EBSCOhost, where saved items will remain until you delete them. If you do not already have a
personalized folder account, click on the Im a new user link to create one, and no extra charge. From
within My EBSCOhost you can Print, E-mail, or Save to Disk all stored results.
 SEARCH HISTORY/ALERTS TAB: Under the Search History/Alerts tab, you can rerun a previously
conducted search by marking the box in front of it and clicking Add. Or, you can Print your Search History,
Retrieve Searches or Alerts, Save Searches or Alerts, or Clear your Search History via the corresponding
hyperlinks.
SAVE SEARCHES by clicking on the Save Searches/Alerts link as soon a you have conducted a
search you would like to save in your personalized folder. This function always applies to the most
recently conducted search.
Fill in the fields and choose the radio button in front of the Permanent or Temporary Saved Search
option, and then click on the Save button. Your search criteria will remain in your personalized My
EBSCOhost folder until you delete it.
SEARCH ALERTS can be created for the most recently conducted Advanced Search, by clicking on
the Save Searches/Alerts link and filling in the resulting form. Choose the radio button in front of the
Alert option.
Fill in the Alert form and choose how often you want it to run, the period from which you want articles
included, how long you want the alert to run, and to what e-mail address you want the results sent.
Click Save to complete the Alert setup process. Your alert will be saved in My EBSCOhost until you
delete it.
PUBLICATIONS can be searched directly using the Publications authority file button along the top
toolbar. Click on it to see an alphabetized list of every publication represented in the database.
 JOURNAL ALERTS can be set up using the same Publications authority file button. Click on it to see
the alphabetized list of publications available, choose the one you want to set up as any alert, and click
on its name link.
Click on the Journal Alert link in the upper right corner of the resulting publication detail page.
Complete the form by indicating how long you want to alert to run, and where you want the results sent.
You can customize the Subject line to ensure that when the alert arrives, you will recognize it. You can
also customize the alert e-mail From address to accommodate e-mail virus protection, which might
otherwise block messages bearing the default From address shown here.
INDEXES: You can browse a list of indexes for a specific database. Click on the Indexes button along
the top toolbar, select a field within which you want your search to take place, such as Journal Name,
and then enter a corresponding search term, such as Time. Click Browse.
EBSCOhost returns a list of all publications beginning with the word Time, which are represented in the
current database.
To search within a publication from the list, check the box in front of it and click the Add button. The
publication name and its field code are now in the Find field.
Click the Search button to view the Result List of all available articles from the selected publication.
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This concludes the Advanced Search, Guided Style tutorial.