This document provides an overview of advanced search features available in EBSCO and InfoTrac databases. It describes features such as saving articles and searches to personal accounts, setting up RSS feeds and email alerts, using subject headings and thesauri, and searching within specific fields. Boolean operators, wildcards, truncation, proximity searching and nesting are explained as methods for power searching across multiple databases within EBSCO and InfoTrac simultaneously. Examples of advanced search techniques are also provided.

1. Using Advanced Features in EBSCO and InfoTrac Databases November Library LibLearn

2. EBSCO: Advanced Features MyEBSCOhost personal account: save articles, images, searches. Houses personal folders. Search history RSS feed: search and journal alerts Custom and shared folders: create individual folders. Have ability to share folder with team. Cited references: identify researchers in field (can also be done in Google Scholar, Google Books and Arts and Humanities Citation Index) Thesaurus: MeSH, CINAHL Headings, Business Subject, people, places, image search vgonzalez@framingham.edu

3. EBSCO: My Account vgonzalez@framingham.edu

4. InfoTrac: Advanced Features Gale User personal account: create individual folders within your personal account Mark items (searches and articles); bookmark persistent link Search history and search lists: view past search queries and rerun searches Search and journal email alerts and RSS feeds PowerPack Collections Listen to articles and convert to MP3 file Subjects and subdivisions: topic search vgonzalez@framingham.edu

5. InfoTrac: Gale User Account vgonzalez@framingham.edu

6. Power Searching Both EBSCO and InfoTrac (One Search) allow researchers to search all databases. Boolean operators: use AND, OR, NOT Wildcard - ?: replaces letter, wildcard - # replaces alternative spelling Truncation - *: finds all forms of word Proximity : use N5 or W8 (you can use any number) to find words within the number of words of within another Nesting : use parenthesis for more complex Boolean searches Quotation marks : use double quotation marks to search for exact phase. vgonzalez@framingham.edu

7. PowerSearching Examples Boolean: education AND technology; college OR university; Saturn NOT planet Wildcards: ne?t=neat, nest, next; colo#r=color, colour Truncation: comput*=computer or computing; midsummer * dream=midsummer night’s dream Proximity: tax N5 reform=could find tax reform as well as reform of income tax; tax W8 reform=would find tax reform Nesting: (dog OR cat) AND (show OR parade) Quotation marks: “core library values” vgonzalez@framingham.edu