Using EBSCO

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Using EBSCO

• Get to this wonderful online source from school
  or home . . . Through the AOMS Library Reference
  website

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What is EBSCO

• EBSCO is a collection of databases of newspaper,
  magazine, and encyclopedia articles and images
  for
• Students
• Professionals
• General Interest and Information

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Databases for Students

• Middle Search Plus
• EBSCO Animals
• Funk Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
• Newspaper Source
• Health Source Plus
• Business Source Elite
• Primary Search
• MAS Full Text Ultra

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Databases for Teachers

• ERIC
• MasterFILE Premier
• Academic Search Elite
• Professional Development Collection

• Of course anyone can use any of the available
  databases!!!

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How do you get to EBSCO?

• Open Netscape
  (or another web browser)
• Go to this location the AOMS Reference webpage
  http//www.teleport.com/skelsey/reference.html

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and here you are
Click on the EBSCO icon
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This takes you to the OSLIS Secondary school
resources page
OSLIS Oregon School Library Information System
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Here you can look at Tutorials about searching on
the internet or doing bibliographic citations for
webpages . . .
OR
Click on the EBSCO icon again to enter the
databases
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At school, you will automatically enter
EBSCOIf you are logging in from home, you will
be prompted for a User ID and Password

• For Topic Search, EBSCO Middle School or
• EBSCO High School use - - -
• User ID oslis
• Password middle
• For EBSCO Elementary Host or Searchasaurus use -
  - -
• User ID oslis
• Password elem

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Check the squares next to the databases you want
to search . . . Then press ENTER
Lists of databases available
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Type in your search terms . . . Check the box by
Full Text to limit your search to whole articles
. . . Then press SEARCH
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You should get a list of articles related to your
search terms. Click on their blue titles see each
article.
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Here is the article titled Danger on Foot -
if you scroll down, you will see the text of
the article - there is a button for printing or
e-mailing the article at the top and the
bottom!
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Just put in an e-mail address and a subject and
press SUBMIT to e-mail the article!
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Lets do a subject search with EBSCO. . .

• Open Netscape
  (or another web browser)
• Go to this location the AOMS Reference webpage
  http//www.teleport.com/skelsey/reference.html