4. WHY use Articles?
• News
• Entertainment
• Opinion
• Reviews
• Research
• Analysis
5. WHY use Articles?
“For all types of audiences!”
• General public
• College students
• Scholars/scientists
• Practitioners within a discipline
• Customers
20. Kinds of Databases
General/Multidisciplinary
• ProQuest Central
• Academic Search
Elite (Ebsco)
Subject/Discipline
Specific
• Business Source
Premier
• PubMed
• SciFinder Scholar
• Literature Online (LION)
• America: History and
Life
21. Search for ARTICLES on your
Topic
ProQuest Central
Academic Search Elite
(Ebsco)
• Suite of databases
• Covers lots of subjects
• Includes many types of
periodicals
• Can limit to scholarly
journals
• Includes full-text articles
• General Research
• Good place to start
• Single database
• Multidisciplinary
• Includes many types of
periodicals
• Can limit to scholarly
journals
• Includes full-text articles
• General Research
• Good place to start
22. Using databases to find articles
• How to ACCESS databases at DU
• How to SEARCH in databases
• How to PRINT, SAVE, EMAIL articles
27. Why?
• You can access BOTH databases in the
same place, quickly
• You want to access the Advanced Search
screen for both databases
• This gives you the most robust way to
search
28. How to use...
• ProQuest Central • Academic Search
Elite
•GENERAL RESEARCH
•GOOD PLACE TO START
29. Think of it as different brands
ProQuest Ebsco
31. If you search ProQuest Central...
ABI Inform
ProQuest Health and
Medical
ProQuest Nursing
ProQuest Biology
ProQuest Education
ProQuest Newsstand
ProQuest Psychology
ProQuest Science
ProQuest Research Library
ProQuest Social Science
ProQuest Military Collection
ProQuest Religion
You are searching many thousands of different periodicals for articles
35. Academic Search Elite
• Only ONE database
• Smaller pool of resources
• Tend to get FEWER results than in ProQuest
• BUT... can get different results!!!
38. Citation in Ebsco
• Basic bibliographic information
• Use this info to help you cite the article
39. Abstract in Ebsco
• Brief SUMMARY of the article
• In Ebsco, you have to open up the article record
• An abstract may be it!
• Have to find the full-text elsewhere