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Accessing Journals through EBSCO

This libguide will show students how to access the EBSCO journal database through the DLC portal

Detailed Record

If you opened the article correctly you should see the Detailed Record for this article. It looks like this:

The most important things for you are the subjects, source, type, author and abstract.

Definitions

Abstract

The abstract is like the back of the book blurb. It's the quick and dirty version of what the article is about.

Author

Simply who wrote the article. Sometimes it's one person, but sometimes it's a group effort.

Source

Where the article was originally published. At the moment we're only looking at peer reviewed articles so it will be a journal. When you do your essays it may come from any number of sources.

Subjects

These are the categories assigned by the archivist to help you search for the information quickly and easily. Sometimes you will be doing a cross-literature study (sometimes called a literature review or lit review) on a particular subject. For example Depictions of Racism in American Fiction. Instead of searching for the book title, you might want to search instead for the key subject Racism, maybe paired with American authors so you get all the articles on both those subjects. We'll talk more about this later.

Type

This is the type of document that the article is classified as. In this case it's a Literary Criticism. Other examples might be Film Criticism, Book Reviews, etc.

Full Text vs Abstract

The Detailed Record only contains the abstract which isn't much good to you for getting the quotes and information you will need for your essay.

On the left side of the screen you'll find you can switch between the Detailed Record and the Full Text

If you click on PDF Full Text it will take you to the electronic version of the article. Either the article will appear on the page or it will appear in your downloads. If you click the on the tool bar in Firefox (or the equivalent in the web browser you're using) you can grab the downloaded article and open it up. This will be the full text of the article that you're wanting to read. Once you're in the PDF you can save it with a proper name, highlight it, or print it. Note that downloaded files will not appear if you log out. You need to save them into your Samba (H:/) drive for later access.