MAGNOLIA is a statewide association funded by the Mississippi Legislature that provides online research databases for schools and libraries in Mississippi. It includes Academic Search Premier, an extensive scholarly database from EBSCO with full text for over 4,600 journal titles. Academic Search Premier is a good source for research because it contains articles, reports and books across many subject areas, with cited references and PDF backfiles for some journals back to 1975. The document provides instructions for accessing Academic Search Premier through the Gulfport school library website and searching for articles on a topic. It explains how to find the full text of articles, and print, email or save citations in MLA format for research papers.

1. with focus on
Academic Search Premier
Shana Campbell
shana.campbell@gulfportschools.org

2. What is MAGNOLIA?
MAGNOLIA is a statewide
association funded by the
Mississippi Legislature which
provides online research
databases for publicly funded K-
12 schools, public libraries,
community college libraries and
university libraries in Mississippi.
http://magnolia.msstate.edu/about/about.asp
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3. What databases are available?
•Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
•Literary reference Center (EBSCO)
•Newspaper Search (EBSCO)
•Primary Search (EBSCO)
•Topic Search (EBSCO)
•OCLC WorldCat
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4. As the world's largest scholarly,
multidiscipline full text database
designed specifically for academic
institutions. It offers critical
information from many sources
found in no other database
Why Academic Search Premier?
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5.  Academic Search
Premier contains
indexing and abstracts for
over 8,450 journals, with
full text for more than
4,600 of those titles. PDF
backfiles to 1975 or
further are available for
well over one hundred
journals, and searchable
cited references are
provided for more than
1,000 titles.
 Academic Search
Premier contains
unmatched full-text
coverage in biology,
chemistry, engineering,
physics, psychology,
religion & theology, etc.
Comprised of journal
articles, magazines,
newspapers, books and
reports.
Why Academic Search Premier?
http://pioneer.utah.gov/research/databases/aspremier.html
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6. How to access
Academic Search Premier?
Go to www.gulfportschools.org
From the drop down box choose Gulfport High
School
Once you have accessed the Gulfport High School
page find RESOURCES and click on LIBRARY
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How to access
Academic Search Premier?
From the library page you will want to choose
HELPFUL RESOURCES from here find the
MAGNOLIA link and click on it.
Under K12 Students choose ○High (9-12)
From here you will locate the search box for
ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER

8. In the search box I will type in FIRESTORM
After reading the abstract I have decided that I will
choose
Physical Modeling of Firestorms
From here I can read the full pdf, print, email, or
save this article in a folder for further research.
How to research using
Academic Search Premier?
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If I decide to print or email I will be given the option
to decide my citation format for this assignment I
will choose MLA
At this time you can also copy and paste this
citation into your works cited page directly
(this will save a lot of time in the future).
How to research using
Academic Search Premier?

10. Thanks for your
attention and I hope
your research has been
made easier.
Any questions?
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