Learn how to perform an advanced search on EBSCOhost Research Platform databases, e.g. APA PsycArticles.
EBSCO Tutorials (2019) Creating an advanced search - tutorial. Available at: https://youtu.be/DjKNxqiuwpY (Accessed: 10 November 2020).
To find good quality journal articles related to:
Download the EBSCO mobile app for easier access.
EBSCO Tutorials (2023) The EBSCO mobile app - Tutorial. Available at: https://youtu.be/LFIOQRqodLo?si=_GcLZv7kQ1WU7DNr (Accessed: 15 December 2023).
Typing a sentence into a search engine or database will not search resources effectively.
Consider the key words and/ or phrases that describe what you want to search (e.g. nursing students).
Enter these in the search boxes provided.
You can use various search techniques to add in extra terms, combine multiple topics, narrow results down and get more useful results. These include:
Use the available filters, e.g. to the left of your results list, to refine your search by date range, language or content type, among others.
APA PsycArticles is set to offer full text results by default. Abstracts or references for many more articles are available by deselecting the "Also search within the full text of the articles" option.
Some of these articles may be accessible in full via the listed 'Check Primo OneSearch for availability' links.
For others, a free copy may be available on the internet provided under an open access arrangement. Use Google Scholar or Open Access Button to check. Type in one author's surname and add the title of the article in quotation marks (to look for the words in the same order). If the article is freely available, you will see a PDF or HTML notation beside the citation.
You may also be able to get the article, free of charge, by requesting an Interlibrary Loan (ILL).
Go to Databases A-Z and select 'APA PsycArticles'.
Select the 'Access via your institution' option then enter your student, or staff, email address and password when prompted.
An alternative to keyword searching is to use the in-built APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms - a menu option above the search boxes.
These results can then be combined with other search terms, and/ or further filtered, as above.
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