NOTE: The URL at the top of the EBSCO page will expire after 30 minutes. Copy the Permalink into your document to have permanent access to an article.
- Database selection depends on your research question - nursing, medicine, psychology, sociology and/or education fields. Some topics are best in OneSearch or Combined Databases; others with the expertise of discipline-specific databases.
- Find more search terms from the titles and subject headings of good articles.
- Use review articles to get an overview, help in choosing your research topic, and the articles in its reference list.
- Keep a research log; examples below.
- If you need to be more thorough, from several key articles on your topic, look at their reference list, search for other articles by the key authors, and look at articles that have cited them (many of these are linked in Google Scholar).
Truncation: hospital* retrieves
hospitalized, hospitalization, hospital-associated, etc.
Synonyms (from titles, subject headings, and abstracts) to find more articles:
hospital* or “acute care” or inpatient
If too many irrelevant articles, turn Off the option to search Full Text of articles.
Select the Title Field to improve relevance:
Plusses, Minuses, Off-Campus Settings
+ Good way to find academic synonyms.
+ Great way to find newer articles that cite a relevant one.
+ Good for relationship between two concepts.
= Some free full text via federal research archives and preprints.
- May not have been published in peer–reviewed journals.
- Can’t limit by discipline.
Off-Campus Settings - to link to Edgewood's full text articles, RefWorks.
+ Can export citations into RefWorks. From Settings:
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