As you start typing, you will see, just like Google again, suggested searches appear below the search box. These may give you some ideas for different searches. This autocomplete feature offers suggested terms to complete a search query based on searches made by other EBSCO users. When there is no exact match for what is entered in the search box, suggestions are shown based on close matches to the most frequently searched terms.
To search for a phrase, put quotation marks around the phrase, e.g. "user experience" "healthy eating" "social media marketing" If you don't use quotation marks, then e.g., for user experience, you will get results that have user and experience appearing with five or fewer words of each other. So, chances are you'll end up with more and less relevant results.
Below the search box, there are three buttons. These are options you can use to fine tune your search. You don't have to use them, but might be worth trying if you get too many results.
These options are:
You cannot select any custom time period here.
Full Text is an important filter because if you don't use it, you'll see lots of results where there's just the detail page with title and abstract only. If you want to read the whole of an article that's one of your search results, tick the Full Text box to ensure that all results have the full text available.
If you are looking for scholarly/academic sources (and this may be specified in your coursework/assignment instructions), tick the Peer Reviewed box to make sure that all your results come from scholarly information sources.
By default, Full Text and Peer Reviewed are switched off (white). To switch them on, click the button. When they are active, the buttons turn light blue
