The search results page looks like this
Each red box describes a different section of the page.
Box 1
The various limiters (here called filters) that you can use (some limiters might be more useful than others!): to limit and filter search results. Technically, limiters limit searches before you search and filters are used to reduce the number of results after you search, but everyone uses the terms interchangeably:
- All Filters - click this to open other filters (see below)
- Full-text - limit to results where the full-text of the ebook is present (which should be all the time, anyway)
- All time - limit results time period
- Source Types - limited to ebook.
Box 2
Click here to go to the Advanced Search
Box 3
The number of search results and box to tick to select all items on the page (see Select Items, below)
Box 4
Display options:
- Show - number of results displayed on a page (10 [default], 20, 30 or 50)
- Sort by:
- Relevance (what EBSCO thinks are the best results fitting your query)
- Newest results first
- Oldest results first
Box 5
Click here to either
- Save search
- Create an alert to be emailed when new results matching your search query appear
- Note: you need a My EBSCO account to save searches and create alerts
Box 6
Click to select item (see Select Items, below)
Box 7
A thumbnail of the cover of the ebook
Box 8
Indicates the result is an ebook
Box 9
Save item (requires a My EBSCO account)
Box 10
Tools menu
- Cite - create a reference list entry for the item
- Project - save the item EBSCO's equivalent of Zotero or Mendeley (requires a My EBSCO account)
- Share the item to:
- Google Drive
- One Drive
- Create a permanent link to the item
- Email the item
Box 11
The item detail. Click on the title to see the full item record
- Show more will expand the abstract (if there is one)
- Below the abstract are subject terms - you may need to click on "+... more" to see them all
Box 12
Access the full text of the ebook
All Filters
Clicking on All Filters in Box 1 above will open a box with many search filtering options
Search Mode: proximity: Searches for terms that are near each other. For example, the search user experience will return results where user and experience separated by five words or fewer, in any order.
Apply equivalent subjects: Let EBSCO include in your search subject terms that are related to your search terms.
Filters
- Full-Text - limit your results to only those for which the full-text of the ebook is available
- Download available - limit your results to only ebooks that can be downloaded
- Publication Date - limit your results to those published between certain dates
- All time
- Past 12 months
- Past 5 years
- Past 10 years
- Custom range
- Databases - choose different EBSCO database that the library has access to
- Source types - limit to specific type of information source
- Subject. - general subject terms, usually supplied by the authors of articles
- Publisher - limit to a specific publisher
- Category - limit to a specific ebook category
Select Items
3 and 6 above mention selecting items. When you select items, a variety of options appear
These are
- download (the arrow pointing downward) - download the
- save item(s)(as item 9 in the first image on this page)
- save item to project (the white plus in the black folder)
- share (the arrow pointing right)
- cite (the quotation marks)
There are a lot of search options which are very powerful, but might be a bit complicated. If you find the options, confusing, just stick to the basic search. Some options e.g., full text and source type seem a bit pointless - full text should be available for ebooks and the only source type is ebook.
