Module 1 Screenshot Walkthrough

1. Go to Ancilla’s homepage: www.ancilla.edu. Go to Academics at top right and find Library.

2. If you’re off campus, this screen appears. Type in your library barcode number from the front of your student ID (it starts with 29302) and use the password you set up. Haven't done that yet? Go here to get instructions on how to set up a password for off-campus access.

3. If on campus or after you’ve logged in off campus, this screen appears. Find EBSCOhost and click.

4. A list of databases appears. Some, like Academic Search Premier, are multidisciplinary and cover more than one subject. Some, like Business Source Premier, are specific to a topic and others, like eBook Collection, are specific to a format (eBooks, newspapers, etc.). Click on the boxes to select the ones that will work best for your search—remember that Academic Search Premier has a lot of full text and covers a lot of topics so you can use it for any search--or click on Select/deselect all to search them all at once! ’m going to do a search on global warming so I’m going to choose Academic Search Premier, eBook Collection, and GreenFile. Click the Continue button when finished.

5. Type keyword search global warming into search box and click Search button or press Enter key.

6. Your results are summed up to the left, and the articles are listed below. Congratulations—you have completed a simple keyword search in EBSCOhost!

Further Practice

Want some practice? Try this case scenario:

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: to do a search for articles on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This is your chance to practice doing a real search using what you’ve learned. Think carefully about your database choices and your search term, and remember what format you’re looking for (articles, not books).

To ponder: What did you come up with? Were your results relevant and on-target, or did you get something weird and completely off-topic? If so, where do you think you went wrong?