1. EBSCO SEARCH USING FIELD OPTIONS BY TITLE, AUTHOR, JOURNAL AND USE OF TOOLS: APA REFERENCE CITATION AND PERMALINK DATABASES: Academic Search Premier Business Source Elite CINAHL PLUS with Full Text MEDLINE Full Text ERIC PsycArticles Regional Business Source Elite CONTENT: Search using the Field Options (Title, Author, Journal or Source) Use of Tools (APA and Permalink)

2. Knowledge is Empowerment First, let’s learn the steps to access USU databases: please go to our site http://www.usuniversity.edu and select Library (1). Click on Full Text Database Nursing or any College (2). Select Academic Search Premier EBSCO(3) and register (4). Ask the USU librarian for ID & Password. From your USU email to clopez@usuniversity.edu 1 2 3 4

3. Knowledge is Empowerment Second, After selecting “Choose databases” select the databases related to your information need by checking on each box. You can search EBSCO databases simultaneously, all in one search. Please click Choose databases Select the databases according to your subject: Nursing and Health Science: please select CINAHL, PSYCARTICLES, ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER and MEDLINE. History, art, literature & science: select ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER, it is multidisciplinary and one of the best database in EBSCO. Education: select ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER, ERIC (education database) and PSYCARTICLES Business: select ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER, BUSINESS SOURCE ELITE, PSYCARTICLES & REGIONAL BUSINESS NEWS Select All for: Business and healthcare, Education and healthcare administration,

4. Knowledge is Empowerment Important issues: If you are not able to access ESBCO from United States University Library site, perhaps you are under a network where the institution you are working for is also subscribed to EBSCO. For example: Sharp, Kaiser, Scripps Hospitals, etc. If EBSCO search screen is in a different language, please select English under “Language” located on the upper right.

5. Knowledge is Empowerment Search the topic sentence: Critical thinking skills for students in nursing. 193 full text articles. Let’s search in the TITLE Search Strategy: Critical thinking skills for students AND nursing

6. Knowledge is Empowerment Please compare this search strategy and results with the one in the next slide, you need to play with words. Search Strategy: Critical thinking skills for students AND nursing

7. Knowledge is Empowerment Search strategy: Critical thinking skills AND nursing students Both searches were done in “title” of the article. Limited to full text with 39 results.

8. Knowledge is Empowerment Search by Author: Leiyu, Shi. Full Text

9. Knowledge is Empowerment Now, let’s search for the Russian chemist, Dmitri Mendeleev, that developed the first useful periodic table of the chemical elements, is a good example. I want to search not only in the title, but in the abstract; therefore “TX All Text” was selected as the best option. Continue with full text articles from peer reviewed journals

10. Knowledge is Empowerment Search by Journal: American Journal of Public Health If you would like to receive in your e-mail the table of contents of your favorite journal or magazine, and have access to the full text, you need to register in EBSCO. Please go to the tutorial: Searching Medline Register EbscoHost Alerts. To view the article click in the PDF

11. Knowledge is Empowerment From your results, click in any title and take a look of EBSCO services under “Tools”. You can print it, e-mailed to you or any colleague, save it and even have APA citations (Cite). To view the article, click the PDF icon Copy & Paste the “Permalink” to go back to the article

12. Knowledge is Empowerment Example of APA citation. Please add at the end: Retrieved from CINAHL Plus with Full Text. For more information, please go to the following EBSCO tutorials: Advanced SearchAdvanced Search (subject terms + limit results + tools + Folders) http://support.epnet.com/training/flash_videos/adv_guided/adv_guided.html Basic SearchBasic Search (full text + peer reviewed + refine results + tools + sign is ) http://support.epnet.com/training/flash_videos/basic_search/basic_search.html APA Style http://support.ebsco.com/help/index.php?help_id=1827 How to Cite Images http://support.ebsco.com/help/index.php?help_id=1590

13. Knowledge is Empowerment THANK YOU For taking the time to learn. For more information Please contact M.L.S Catalina Lopez clopez@usuniversity.edu (619) 477 6310 ext. 6 or 2017