hello my name is Dr Scott Lee I'm one of the
librarians here on campus and today I'm going
to be introducing you to EBSCO discovery service
or EDS.� EDS is the gateway for hundreds
of journals and thousands millions of articles
videos E. books and a wide array of other
sources EDS should be your primary tool for
research here at AVC as it provides the best
quality and collection of resources you have
available as in the AVC student before we
begin in order to use EBSCO discovery from
home you need to be logged in to AVC ID. once
you're logged in you'll see a link for it
EBSCO research database you can click that
and that will take you into EBSCO discovery
service.
now if you're already logged into AVC ID you
can actually begin your search from the library's
homepage here from the campus homepage click
campus life and then select library from the
drop down menu then from the library's homepage
this enables you to begin your search with
EDS from this search box.� Okay let's get
started.
let's say we're doing a search for information
technology now you type in your search terms
here in this box.
the first thing you have to consider is what
kind of search you want to do.
so you see your options here for keyword title
and author.
it's best to just leave it at keyword.
your other options full text and scholarly
peer reviewed journals it's best to always
select full text.
what full text means is that the entirety
of whatever it is you're looking for whatever
it� is that's found has to be in the database.
that way if it's not in the database would
actually have to go find it somewhere else
select full text so that it stays there for
tax your other option scholarly peer reviewed
journals this is something you may have heard
from some of your instructors that you have
to use a scholarly journal or peer reviewed
journal if you have that restriction select
that box too because that way you feel comfortable
that whatever you find is a scholarly peer
reviewed journal you don't have to think too
hard about if it is.
so I'm going to select those two options and
I'm going to select or click search
right now you're seeing the EBSCO discovery
results screen this screen has two columns.
on the right side are your results column
so this shows you all of the books articles
and other resources you found based on the
search terms you put in and based on the limiters
you already applied.
up here you can see that I have 5297195 results.
on the left side is what's called the refine
results column this is the column that allows
you to control what you see in the right column.
basically you apply limiters on the left side
the left column and then that alters what
you see you your results on the right column.
limiters are the same as filters so when you
apply a limiter you're applying a filter and
you're telling EDS please filter out things
that either do or don't match these criteria
that I'm placing now.
I'm not going to go through all of the available
options in limiters for EDS.� the fact is
there's a lot of them as you can see scrolling
down the left column.
I don't want this to turn into a one and a
half to two hour video.
you don't want this to turn into a one and
a half to two hour video.
so I'm not gonna go through all of them.
I'm just gonna look at a couple to give you
an idea of how limiters work.
once you have the basic process of it, it's
simply a matter of selecting the limiter that's
going to serve your interests best.
one of the limiters is pretty self explanatory
is publication date now first I want to point
out these 2 dates are not mistakes.
ten thirteen.
EDS has a lot of materials that are actually
quite old.
there's been a lot of effort to digitize old
very old materials and make them available
in database systems like EBSCO discovery.
the twenty twenty one date is also not a mistake
some materials that are technically published
in the year twenty twenty one are already
available to databases like EDS so these two
dates are not mistakes one of the most important
limiters you have is the subject limiter.
the subject limiter opens up a great deal
to you in terms of finding the resources and
materials you really truly need.
so I scroll down to the limit by subject.
%HESITATION if it's closed you have a little
button here this allows you to open and close
it.
what limit by subject does is when you look
over here say at number four and you have
where it says subject and it lists information
technology contracting out technological and
for %HESITATION innovations contracts business
planning those are all limiters or subject
limiters attached to that article.
what limit by subject does is it takes every
single limiter for every single article of
the five million two hundred ninety seven
thousand that it found.
it counts how many of them there are and then
the fifty most popular ones it then ranks
over here in the limit by subject.
now whenever you go to one of these limiters
again you can open or close it but then click
show more and that will give you the full
list and this allows you to go through and
see the fifty most popular %HESITATION subjects
based on your search.
this can be very useful if you're starting
with a broad topic and you're still trying
to narrow yourself down.
so in our search for information technology
let's say we were looking for specific to
education so if I select education there's
seventy five thousand six hundred and thirty
two articles specific to education and information
technology I can even go down here and also
select higher education because maybe I also
want more specific to higher education not
%HESITATION including K - 12.
I can select any or all of these subjects.
as many as you need.
again based on what your needs are. and then
I select update and that will give me a new
list in the right column based on the subject
limiters that I selected so I went from five
million down to a hundred twenty six thousand.
whenever you use a limiter that's what you
expect to see your overall number to drop.
another useful limiter is the geography limiter.
sometimes when you're doing research on a
topic you can be surprised how worldwide the
topic is.
geography allows you to place limits on how
far and wide your search goes.
so you're looking in information technology
and education higher education and quite likely
you may just want to limit yourself to the
United States so we can select the United
States and click update. and it'll eliminate
articles or journal articles specific to other
countries.
again you'll notice our number dropped down
from five thousand drop down to five thousand
two hundred thirty seven.
another really nice thing about every time
you place a limiter is that it actually changes
your limiters.
so we just placed a limiter for the United
States in geography.
we go back to geography.
we actually now see different types of limiters
including one for California.
so let's say you actually want to just limit
yourself to information technology in education
higher education in California.
now you can you're down to just seventy six
articles.
so you see the basic process of using EBSCO
discovery service.
use the left column to place limiters and
the right column then alters based on the
limiters you select.
so you look at what your options are on the
left column.
make choices and then that makes the right
column filled with the resources that are
actually going to help you.
something else that's important to know about
the left column.
if you go to the top and look at where it
says current search these are all the limiters
I've placed so far.
the thing is any limiter you put on you can
take off.
so for example I can remove the California
limiter by simply pressing the X next to the
word California.
so we'll expand our geography back out to
United States and I go back to five thousand
resources.
I can get rid of the United States limiter
and now I want to just look at the entire
world and we go back to hundred twenty six
thousand.
so any of these limiters I place I can remove.
any limiters you place you can remove.
you have total control over what happens over
here.
I can remove the scholarly peer reviewed journal
limiter.
I can remove the full text limiter.
I can add them back on.
always remember that you control the left
column so the right column will only have
the resources that are actually useful to
you.
so that's the basics of using EBSCO discovery
service.
I hope you found this little tutorial helpful
it was something we kind of threw together
rather quickly so doesn't necessarily have
as much depth or detail as our in class workshops
would have.
but given the current situation of our campus
and our state and our country we wanted to
make sure we were able to provide you with
something.
and finally please remember that the library
faculty of antelope valley college are still
here to help you.
at the end of this video you'll see an email
address you can use to contact us at any time.
like your other faculty were not going anywhere.
we're still in place to help you achieve your
educational goals.
thank you and stay safe
