Help, Guides and Instructions: EBSCO

On the Library Homepage, access the Electronic Resources here:

Once in the A to Z listing, click on “E” for a listing of the EBSCO electronic resources.

To use Advanced Search

• Click the Advanced Search link below the Find field. 

• Enter your search terms in the first search box 

• Select a Boolean operator (AND, OR, NOT) to combine.

• Choose the search field from the optional Select a Field drop-down list (for example, search in only the "Abstract" field of the citation).

• If you need additional rows, click the Plus button . Up to 12 rows can be displayed. To delete a row, click the Minus button .

Select from the available Search Options:

• Search modes - Use specific search modes, such as "Find all my search terms," or "SmartText Searching," or use search options that expand your search such as "Apply related words."
• Limit your results - such as Full Text or Publication type.
• Special Limiters - Apply limiters specific to a database. If you select a special limiter, it is applied only to the database under which it appears

Using truncation and proximity searches

1. Using the truncation symbol (*) to get Burma or Burmese
2. Using the proximity operation to get the words closer together in the content : the Near proximity operation in EBSCO is an “N” with a numeral:
1. Burma N5 military
2. “N” will find terms within a certain amount of words of one another regardless of the order in which they appear 

Other Limiters:

1. Limit to "Scholarly" (peer reviewed) materials
2. Limit by  Publication Date
3. Limit search by Abstract or author- supplied abstract

4. The Within Operator (“W”) finds terms within a certain amount of words of one another in the order in which you used them