A student’s guide to searching EBSCOhost E-Journal Services

Bill Mortimer – Academic Liaison Librarian for Sports and PEbill.mortimer@beds.ac.uk

Go to the Library Catalogue http://library.beds.ac.uk. Click on Digital Library

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Go to Databases for my subject and choose Sport and Exercise Science. Click Go!

On the list of Full Text Databases choose EBSCOhost Electronic Journal Service

Now select the top link from the database page on the catalogue. The EBSCO E-Journal databases is a collection of e-journals covering subjects taught at UoB

Use keywords in the search fields that are relevant to your assignment e.g. sports, “stress fractures”, spondylolysis, “pars interarticularis” Tip: Click “Linked Full Text” to insure full text results

Use quotation marks around phrases such as “stress fractures”. Click Search when you are happy with your combination of keywords

Decide which articles from your search results might be useful for your assignment. You may need to repeat the search a number of times with modified keywords

Click on the title of a relevant article

Read the Abstract to make sure the content and level of the article meets your needs. Click on the PDF to read the whole of the article

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The PDF can now be read on screen, printed out or saved to file. If you would like further guidance on searching databases contact your librarian, bill.mortimer@beds.ac.uk.