Using EBSCO Get to this wonderful online source

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

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

Databases for Students n n n n Middle Search Plus EBSCO Animals Funk & Wagnall’s New World Encyclopedia Newspaper Source Health Source Plus Business Source Elite Primary Search MAS Full Text Ultra

Databases for Teachers ERIC n Master. FILE Premier n Academic Search Elite n Professional Development Collection n Of course – anyone can use any of the available databases!!!

How do you get to EBSCO? ÖOpen Netscape (or another web browser) ÖGo to this location – the AOMS Reference webpage http: //www. teleport. com/~skelsey/reference. html

…and here you are Click on the EBSCO icon

This takes you to the OSLIS Secondary school resources page OSLIS – Oregon School Library Information System

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

At school, you will automatically enter EBSCO… If 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 u Password = middle u For EBSCO Elementary Host or Searchasaurus use - - - User ID = oslis u Password = elem u

Check the squares next to the databases you want to search. . . Then press ENTER Lists of databases available

Type in your search terms. . . Check the box by Full Text to limit your search to whole articles. . . Then press SEARCH

You should get a list of articles related to your search terms. Click on their blue titles see each article.

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!

Just put in an e-mail address and a subject and press SUBMIT to e-mail the article!

Let’s do a subject search with EBSCO. . . ÖOpen Netscape (or another web browser) ÖGo to this location – the AOMS Reference webpage http: //www. teleport. com/~skelsey/reference. html