Online Resource of the Month
August 2005 - October 2005
Each month or periodically, your SDPL features one of our online premium resources, paid for by SDPL, and available at the locations indicated. This feature covers a special scholarly and academic database, for that "back to school" time for students, teachers, and faculty.
 Academic Search Elite
Available at all SDPL locations and online from any location with a valid SDPL library card. The individual databases are listed on the Catalog & Databases page under various categories.
What is Academic Search Elite?
Academic Search™ Elite contains the full text for over 1,800 journals. The database includes PDF (portable document format) images for the great majority of journals included; many of these PDF documents are searchable or scanned-in-color.
This scholarly collection provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and more.
What types of content are included in Academic Search Elite?
- 3,237 Abstracted and Indexed Journals
- 1,835 Full Text Journals
- 1,280 Peer-Reviewed, Full Text Journals
Academic Search Elite is part of our EBSCOhost databases. EBSCOhost is an online system of databases, with superior content combined with a user-friendly, customizable system and unique features for searching and retrieving information. In addition, EBSCOhost allows patrons to print, e-mail or download multiple articles.
How Do I Search Academic Search Elite?
When you enter the Academic Search Elite database you automatically will be taken to the Basic Search screen.
Type your search term(s) in the text box labeled Find: and Select the Search icon.
When doing a search, you can limit that search to full-text only, to a specific journal title, or to peer-reviewed journals, by using the Limit your results feature located below the search boxes.
How Do I Work with Results?
The image on the left shows a "sample" set of search results for author "Ernest Hemingway."
The result list shows what information has been retrieved from the database search. Search results can be citations, document summaries, or full text (either in HTML or PDF format). At the top left corner of the result list you will find the number of matching results.
Each result is numbered, and the available formats for the article are displayed. Select the linked page numbers (or forward/backward arrows) to move through the Result List. To view a summary or an abstract of the article from the search results, select on the highlighted title. To view a different format, select any of the icons listed below the title.
Printing, E-mailing, and Saving Records
Collect results from different searches by saving them to a folder. (You can also print, e-mail, or save individual results from an open article or citation.)
Select from the various delivery options the category you wish to use: Print, E-mail, Save to Disk.
a. Print - Select PRINT, once the citation or article is displayed, and select the PRINT icon on your web browser toolbar to print the information.
b. E-Mail - Select E-mail, type your (or any) e-mail address, and Select Send.
c. Save to Disk - Select Save to Disk, then select Save. When the articles are displayed, choose File and then Save As from the web browser toolbar above. Select the (A:) drive and insert a disk, or as appropriate on your computer. Note: You can't "save" files on library computers to any drive except the A: drive. Name the file and save as either a text file or HTML file. For example, results.txt or results.htm. Select the SAVE icon when finished.
Multi-Language Interfaces for Academic Search Elite
EBSCO has available non-English interfaces for Academic Search Elite. You can view the database pages in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, and Russian. When on the database pages, just use the drop-down menu on the right-hand side of the screen to change your language.
Bonus: Citation Help
Select the Help icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen, and you will find Styles of Citation. Here are listed examples of four of the most widely used styles for citing sources used to support research. You will find examples of styles of the Modern Language Association (MLA), American Psychological Association (APA), Chicago, and Turabian.
Online Tutorials and Help Files
We've added a number of links to online tutorials and help documents on the Library's Training page (right column, under "User Guides"). Below are the key files you may find helpful in learning more about searching and using EBSCOhost databases such as Academic Search Elite; these links will open in a second window:
If you need the Macromedia FLASH plug-in for the tutorials, go here. You can right-click the WORD documents, select "Save Target As.." and have a local copy of the documents.
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In-depth coverage of journals and scholarly materials in all fields of research and studies, particularly academic research and publications.
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