Academic Search Premier, one of the most used EBSCOhost databases, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,650 serials, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,200 journals in the collection.

This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database. 

Features

  •        Basic search: simple keyword search that looks for keywords in the database’s default fields (authors, subjects, all keywords, all title info (including source title) and all abstracts).
     

  •        Advanced search:  looks for keywords in a variety of fields, including, all text, author, and title.  Commonly used limiters for advanced searching includes limiting by full text articles only, scholarly journals, publication, and publication date.
     

  •        New! Visual search: allows you to search efficiently across broad subjects, and then returns a visual map of results, organized by topic.  Use the filters at the top of the map to limit or focus information by keyword, date, or publication name.  You must Java installed on your computer to take advantage of visual searching.
     

  •        Journal Alerting Service: Sign up for EBSCOhost journal alert service and EBSOhost will notify the user via email or RSS when new titles in specified publications become available.
     

  •        Search Alerting Service: This alert service automates the process of checking for new results from a specific search. Once a user has created a Search Alert, the process of running it at specific intervals and delivering the new results via email to the user is handled automatically. 

Try It Now!

1.  How can I explore different aspects of online information privacy even when I don’t
     know much  about the subject?

2.  Where can I find the text of George W. Bush’s 2003 state of the union address from?

3.  I'm looking for consumer reviews. How can these be found in Academic Search
     Premier?  (tip: search for publication title as well as subject)

Tutorials:

http://support.epnet.com/training/tutorials.php

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05/08/06