How to search Academic Search Complete database.

1. Searching for Articles in Academic Search Complete
From the “Articles and Indexes” page select “General and
Interdisciplinary Resources”

2. Click on Academic Search Complete to be sent to its main interface.

3. This is the Main search screen for
Academic Search Complete
Then hit search to
see your results!
Enter the terms related to your
search in these boxes.
Use quotes to find exact phrases.

4. The first result, with citation and
subject information. Click on the
title to learn more about the article.
This shows if the article
is available in full text.
This one is!

5. This page tells
more about the
article selected
This is the
article’s
abstract: It
summarizes
the article’s
contents.

6. Expanding the Search
Notice we only found
17 articles.
To find more articles, think of other ways
to phrase search terms.

7. For example, one could use
“college students” instead of
“university students”
Let’s see how this changes the results…

8. This search returned 110 results!
That should give us plenty of articles!
Move on to the Next
Empower Screen