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EBSCO ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER (ASP) Management Program. Tutorial 31. Why EBSCO Academic Search Premier (ASP)? Well, if you learn about the number of FULL TEXT academic journals it has for your program, 1754 and all reachable, you will agree with me that it is a useful resource. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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EBSCO ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER (ASP)
Management Program
Tutorial 31
Knowledge is Empowerment
Why EBSCO Academic Search Premier (ASP)? Well, if you learn about the number of FULL TEXT
academic journals it has for your program, 1754 and all reachable,
you will agree with me that it is a useful resource.SUBJECT
JOURNALS
SUBJECTJOURNAL
S
Business 156 Sales & Marketing 40
General Business 20 Philosophy 138
Business History 20 Banking & Finance 57
Trade 25 Finance & Investment 34
Human Resources 36 Management 95
International Relationships 211 Business Law 213
Management Information Systems
60Production & Operation Management
12
TotalTotal 17541754
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Why Academic Journals?
Because they are where the scientific and technical community promote their results, share their finding and open themselves to criticism.Because they are peer reviewed , and the information has been validated by the academic community.If you were to be published, where else would you do it?
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Today, you have a great invitation!
You have been invited to jump onto the shoulders of the best minds our globe has produced.Let’s take you on this fantastic journey of knowledge.
Come aboard, please! Only remember that “Good things do not come easily and not fast, for sure”
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How are we taking you on this journey of knowledge?
We have designed something different…
Let me explain to you why it makes a difference!
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Custom Design
- US University has developed a series of Information Literacy Tutorials to enhance your knowledge and critical thinking about the different situations you will be exposed to during your program with us.
- Think about your immediate future, and learn now!
- We have tailored each tutorial to meet your specific information needs.
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This is your first stop!
Let’s search EBSCO data bases.
Multidisciplinary Academic Search Premier
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How to access? 1. Go to http://www.usuniversity.edu
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2. Click on Student Services
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3. Click on US University Online Full Text Databases
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4. Click on General Education
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4. Click on EBSCO Multidisciplinary (Academic Search Premier) Link.
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5. For ID & Password, go to US University e-mail, or e-mail the Librarian and ask for
them to be resent.
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6. In order to know the vocabulary used to identify the document, we need to search the
Subject Terms. Click on Subject Terms
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We have passed all the check points;now let’s decide what term to search
• Since our great minds need recognition and respect for their life’s work, and dedication. We will start with the term Plagiarism.
• Let’s honor them,• Let’s cite them
correctly• Let’s avoid plagiarism
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By a democratic decision, the words to be search are:
“plagiarism” and “writing essay.” Let’s search plagiarism first and click the Add
button.
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You may ask yourself, why start the search by clicking SUBJECT TERMS?
• The Subject Terms as well as the Index, both guide you in using the database vocabulary, with which the documents are labeled.
• The authors provide some of the terms, as keywords; the rest are done by information specialists with a thesaurus.
• My vocabulary is not the same as the vocabulary used in the databases.
• You know you have to retrieve relevant information; verify it by also searching the index terms (see our Tutorial Use of Indexes in EBSCO database
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You click the search button and find the results or see how the topic of plagiarism
is divided.
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When you select “plagiarism”, you obtain all the terms under it. Take a look. Are you
interested?
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Then, you select the terms by clicking their boxes, as many as you need, or click on the plagiarism box,
change “or” for “and” and click on Add button.
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All the terms you selected will be seen in the Search box. In this case only
“plagiarism”
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Now let’s search “Writing Essay” in the Browse box, and click on the Browse box.
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From the results you select as many as you need.
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Scroll down at the bottom of the page and click on Next to look for more options.
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On the second page at the button, we found College Students’ Writings;
click on it.
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Click the box or boxes that meet your interest. In addition, you need to change the option “Or”
by “And” and click on the Add button.
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The search terms will appear in the Searching box. Now, click on Search button.
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This is the result to our search!
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Your first stop was searching with Subject Terms
• Second stop, please go to Use of Indexes in EBSCO database and Academic Search Premier Visual Search
• Third Stop, EBSCO simple search using boolean operators and Plagiarism
• Fourth stop, Create Alerts and Files in EBSCO and Information Cycle
• Fifth Stop, OPEN SOURCES and Collections
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Thank you for taking the time to learn!