• All Results (central column)
Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, & Others
Academic Search Premier covers disciplines of physics, chemistry, engineering, computer
sciences, language & linguistics, arts, medical sciences, giving over 4,500 full text journals.
Business Source Premier covers all business disciplines like marketing, management, MIS,
POM, accounting, finance & economics, providing over 2,300 full text journals plus about
20,000 company, industry and market reports in full text.
The Choose Databases screen shows the databases available for you to search.
• Click Title List or More Information of a database to view its content coverage.
• To search a single database, click the database name. To search more than one database, check
the boxes next to the databases. Click Continue to go to the Keyword search screen.
Keyword Search for Articles
Tabs of Sign In to My EBSCOHost / Folder
Choose Databases tab
Tabs of Keyword search / Subject search
/ Publication search / Image search /
More searches
1. On the Keyword search screen, enter your keyword or phrase in the search box. Choose the
field to search within from the Select a Field drop-down list (e.g. Subject Terms).
2. Repeat step 1 to add another search term in the next search row, selecting a Boolean operator
(AND, OR, NOT) from the drop-down list to join with the first search term.
3. Click Add Row to add up to 12 search rows if needed. Click Remove Row to delete a row.
4. From the Search Options below, you may refine the search by selecting appropriate options
under Search modes, Limit your results, and Special limiters specific to each database.
5. Click the Search button. The Result List will display below the search boxes.
Result List
The Result List screen has three columns that you may view, narrow, or refine the results found.
• Narrow Results by (left column)
¾ Narrow the results by source type, subject, journal, etc. by clicking a term in the column.
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¾ Articles found will display in the centre of the Result List screen.
¾ You may sort results by the options available at the Sort by: drop-down list.
• Limit your results (right column)
¾ Select any of the limiters, or move the Date Range slider to filter the results by publication
date, and click Update Results.
¾ You may refine the search even more by clicking Search Options.
¾ The Related Information section will appear when there are additional sources to the
search, e.g. images. Place the mouse over an image to get the full size view of it.
Reading an Article
• At the Result List screen, to preview conveniently the abstract of an article, place the mouse
over the icon in the All Results column. Click Citation at the abstract screen if you want to
view the full citation of the article. You may also view the full citation by clicking the article
title in the All Results column.
• To go straight to view the available full text of the article, click HTML Full Text, PDF Full
Text, or Find this article in full text from ProQuest if any.
• To save an article to the folder to view, print, save, or email later within your search session,
click Add to Folder. You may also use Add to Folder while previewing the abstract.
• While viewing the full citation of the article, you may retrieve similar articles by clicking the
hyperlink under the Related Information on the right; and if full text is available, click
HTML Full Text or PDF Full Text at the top of the citation, or Find this article in full text
from ProQuest at the bottom.
• While reading an article, by clicking the suitable hyperlink or icon you may
¾ view the previous or next record, return to the Result List, refine the search;
¾ save to Folder , E-mail , print , or save the article;
¾ cite and view the different citation formats of the article, like MLA, APA, etc., or export
the citations in a variety of bibliographic manager formats.
• In PDF full text display, use Adobe Acrobat Reader’s capability to print or save the article.
Business Searching Interface for Company & Market Information
The Business Searching Interface of Business Source Premier allows you to find and locate
company and market information conveniently. To go to the Business Searching Interface,
• in the Choose Databases screen, click Enhanced Business Searching Interface under
Business Source Premier; or
• in other screens, click Choose Databases, choose Select another EBSCO service at the pop-
up screen, then Business Searching Interface in the following screen.
Apart from carrying out searches as usual, you may browse and find the following company and
market reports in the Business Searching Interface:
‹ Company Profiles (Datamonitor Report) ‹ Country Reports ‹ Market Research Reports
‹ Company SWOT Analyses ‹ Industry Profiles
1. To browse and find the reports, click the corresponding link under Publications on the right.
2. You may search a report by the title or keywords, or browse through the alphabetical list
using the Next | Previous and the A - Z links.
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3. Click the title of the report to see its overview. When viewing that of a company, you may
click the links under Related Information on the right, if any, to search for articles or other
reports related to the company; for other reports, you may click Search within this
publication, and enter keywords in the following search screen to find articles of it.
4. Click Datamonitor Report to view the full company report. For other reports, you may
browse the full reports by issue. You can e-mail or add the result to folder by clicking the
appropriate icon at the top of the screen. To print or save the full report, use the print/save
capability of the Adobe Acrobat Reader.
5. To exit Business Searching Interface for other databases, click Search Other Databases.
Image Search
There are over 180,000 images on people, natural science, places, history, and flags.
1. To search for images, click the tab Images, or select Images from the More drop-down list.
2. Enter your search term, e.g. Martin Luther King. Use Boolean operators to broaden the
search, e.g. Eleanor AND Roosevelt.
3. Select categories from the Search Options below to limit your search if needed.
4. Click the Search button. A Result List consisting of thumbnail images with brief
descriptions appears. Click the image to go to its full size view.
5. To print the image while viewing its full size, click . The Print Manager screen displays.
Select the desired option, then click Print. To save the image, click . The Save Manager
screen displays. Select the appropriate option, click Save, then use the browser’s Save As
capability to save in Webpage, HTML only format.
6. To revise the result, select the limiters displayed on the right and click Update Results.
Publication, Thesaurus, and Index Search
Publication
1. To view the available publications or to search for a publication of a database, choose the
database from the Publications drop-down list.
2. Browse the A - Z links to page through the publication list using Next | Previous; or enter
search terms in the box above the list and click Browse to search by title or subject.
3. Click the title to view the information of the publication and browse its articles by issue; at
the same screen you may click Search within this publication to put the publication in the
search box to make up a search query.
4. At the screen displaying the publication list, you may find articles of a publication by
checking the box next to it and click Add, then click Search next to the search box. Results
found can be refined by keyword, Narrow Results by or Limit your results options.
Thesaurus and Indexes
1. To view the Thesaurus or Index terms of a database, choose the database from the drop-down
list of Subjects, or from Indexes under More respectively.
2. Browse or search the Thesaurus or index terms in the manner similar to that of Publication.
Folder & My EBSCOhost Folder
The function Add to folder stores the added information in the folder that lasts only within your
search session for your viewing, printing, emailing, or saving many results at one time by
clicking Folder. To have the information remaining in the folder even after you leave your
search session, you need to create your My EBSCOhost folder which only you can access.
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1. To create or log in My EBSCOhost, click Sign In to My EBSCOhost. If you have not yet
created your My EBSCOhost, click I’m a new user and complete the form that follows; or
else enter your username and password and click Login.
2. Once you have signed in your My EBSCOhost, any search results that you collect in the
folder will be automatically saved at the end of the search session; and you may view the
contents of your My EBSCOhost folder by clicking the Folder link at the top of the screen,
and print, e-mail or save many results at one time.
3. Displayed on the left of the Folder screen are links to your saved items in groups of Articles,
Images, Journal Alerts, Saved Searches, etc. Click the appropriate link to see the items in the
group, and in turn click the hyperlink of an item to display its details.
4. To remove an item from the folder, check the box next to it, then click Delete Items.
Alert/Save/Share Your Search
On the Result List screen, you may click the link Alert/Save/Share at the top right corner to save
your search query as a hyperlink so that you may retrieve the results any time by clicking the link,
or share the link with those who are eligible to access the database.
• Create an alert to alert you of new articles related to your search query. You will be asked to
log in My EBSCOhost if you have not yet logged in.
• Add search to folder as a persistent link to retrieve the results by the link later.
• Create RSS feed by copying the Syndication Feed URL from the pop-up screen into your
newsreader.
• Copy the Permalink, i.e. permanent link, of your search query displayed in the box, and paste
the link into a web site, document or e-mail if needed.
• Click the Bookmark to store the link of the search query to your browser’s bookmarking, or
other social bookmarking sites, etc.
Quick Reference Table
AND Find articles where all the words appear. e.g. environment AND cancer
OR Find articles where at least one search term appears. e.g. gold OR silver
NOT Find articles that have the first word, but not the second.
e.g. surfing NOT internet
* Right-handed truncation character that finds all forms of a word.
e.g. econom* finds “economy”, “economics”, “economical”, etc.
? Replace any single character but cannot be used to begin a word.
e.g. wom?n finds “woman” and “women”.
N# Find articles where the words are within some number of words apart in any order.
e.g. housing N3 polic*
W# Find articles where the first word appears some number of words before the second.
e.g. u.s. W5 economic policy
“…” Find articles with the exact phrase enclosed by the double quotation.
e.g. “independent commission against corruption”
(…) Whatever is inside the parentheses is searched first, then those resulted are searched
with whatever is outside the parentheses.
e.g. federal reserve OR (u.s. AND economic policy)
finds articles dealing with either the Federal Reserve or article containing both
the words u.s. and “economic policy”
August 2008, PolyU CPCE Libraries
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