1. USE OF INDEXES IN EBSCO DATABASES
Content:
Business Source Elite
ERIC
Academic Search Premier
PsycArticles

2. Why using the INDEXES
They guide you to use the database vocabulary, where each document is label
The authors provide some of the terms, as keywords, the rest are done by information specialists with a thesaurus
My vocabulary is not the same as the vocabulary used in the databases
Do you think you have retrieve relevant information?, verify it by searching the index terms

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

4. For this exercise
Select EBSCO: Academic Search Premier, ERIC, Business Source Elite, & PsycArticles.

5. You can search all databases at once, but for indexes search, you have to do it one by one. Let’s start with Business Source Elite.
Please select Business Source Elite and type American Airlines in “Browse for” and select Company Entity in “Browse an Index”

6. Select the term and change to “AND” if you selected more than one term, now click “Add” and Search.

7. Type Higher Education. Change to “and” click “Add” and “Search”
In the Program of Education, ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) is the most widely used database. Please select ERIC from More-Indexes. Let’s search ASSESSMENT and HIGHER EDUCATION
Type the term ASSESSMENT and select “identifiers” from the drop box and “Browse”
Type Higher Education. Change to “and” click “Add” and “Search”

8. From results, select “Full Text” and Peer Reviewed”

9. Academic Search Premier (ASP) database is multidisciplinary
Academic Search Premier (ASP) database is multidisciplinary. Please select ASP in all your EBSCO searches.
Select Academic Search Premier from “More-Index”. Type VIRUS DISEASES in “Browse for”. Select Headings from “Browse an Index”. Click “Add”. Mark the box for VIRUS DISEASES and VIRUS DISEASES-PREVENTION and SEARCH

10. From results, select Full Text and Peer Reviewed.

11. PsycArticles is also multidisciplinary
PsycArticles is also multidisciplinary. Let’s search MOTIVATION from the “Indexes”
Search
Type MOTIVATION and select “Subject (All)”. Click “Browse”. From results select MOTIVATION and click “Add”

12. From results select “Full Text”

13. Thank you for taking the time to learn!
M.L.S Catalina Lopez
(619) ext. 6 or 2017
For more information, see the following EBSCO Tutorial:
Indexes