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)  Go to this location – the AOMS Reference webpage

…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... Click on the EBSCO icon again to enter the databases OR

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

Lists of databases available Check the squares next to the databases you want to search... Then press ENTER

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 ing the article at the top and the bottom!

Just put in an address and a subject and press SUBMIT to the article!

Let’s do a subject search with EBSCO...  Open Netscape (or another web browser)  Go to this location – the AOMS Reference webpage