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EBSCO: Advanced Search

EBSCO Advanced Search Video 2 minutes, 39 seconds

Databases Included in EBSCO

Academic Search Premiere includes full text for nearly 2,750 peer-reviewed journals in the sciences, humanities, psychology, religion, and theology.

Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials Plus includes Atla's largest collection of full-text religion and theology journals, along with an index to book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion. Includes Scripture Search by book, chapter, and verse.

Business Source Premier covers business and management topics, including accounting, banking, economics, finance, international trade, marketing, management information systems, and operations management.

Christian Periodical Index covers over 140 titles back to 1976 of evangelical magazines.

eBook Collection includes Denver Seminary's eBook collection purchased through EBSCO.

Old Testament Abstracts includes indexes and abstracts for journal articles, monographs, multiauthor works, and software related to Old Testament studies.

New Testament Abstracts contains more than 44,000 article abstracts, 1,200 review abstracts, 16,500 book abstracts, and 50 software abstracts on the New Testament and its historical setting.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection has full text articles on emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Social Sciences Full Text (W. H. Wilson) covers the latest concepts, theories, and methods from applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.

Creating an Advanced Search

The Advanced Search lets you combine terms using AND, OR, or NOT and choose from a list of fields for each term.

Limit results by:
1.  Full Text
2.  Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) and Year Published
3.  Publication Type
4.  Language
5.  Click Search to see results.

View Results. Icons and captions identify articles versus book reviews; some articles are available in both PDF and HTML format.

After opening the Full Text you can
1.  Create your personal EBSCO account and save it to a folder.
2.  Download it to your device or print it.
3.  Save it to Google Drive, print it, email it, save it to your personal folder, open citations for it, export it to Zotero or another citation software, or open and copy the permalink for the article.
CAUTION: The link in the URL field is not a permalink. To save a link, click on the permalink.

When you do not choose Full Text and you find an article you need for your research click Request this item through interlibrary loan. It will open the ILL form which you can complete and submit. Further information is on the ILL Research Guide.