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Using Education Abstracts

Description

Education Abstracts covers more than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Subjects include administration, teaching methods and curriculum, literacy, government funding, and more. It covers from June 1983 to the present and is updated monthly.

Searching (Default fields or what?)

When searching for articles in Education Abstracts, you will find a screen with three search boxes. After each search box is a drop-down menu that says Default fields. This means that the terms you type into the search boxes will be used to find articles that contain these terms in either the article description (also known as an abstract) and subjects assigned to it by an indexer and the article citation (the title and author of the article and the newspaper, magazine, or journal issue it originally appeared within).

You can change the fields if you would like in order to search for your terms only in specific fields: such as author, title of the article, journal name, subject the article is about and more. You may also search for keywords in All text which will search for your keywords in the entire contents of articles, when it is available.

Refine Your Search
-Scroll down below the search boxes to find ways of limiting and expanding your search results. The most common and easiest limiters are for full text and peer-reviewed articles only. You can use these limits by simply clicking in the box beside each limit.
-You may limit your search to articles published within a specific date range by changing the dates beside the published date limit.
-You may limit your search to only certain document types, such as an interview, review article, or speech.
-Options for expanding your search are available at the very bottom of the screen. These include: also search for related words which will expand your results to include the synonyms and plurals of your term(s) and search within full text articles which will search for your keyword(s) within the entire full text of articles, as well as the abstract and citation information. Otherwise, the database will default to only search the abstract and citation information for your search terms.
-You can always click on the Refine Search tab, even after you have retrieved a list of results. It is probably best to run a broad search and then refine, if you find that you have retrieved too many items.

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Indexes
Clicking on Indexes at the top of the search screen allows you to search/browse through the various indexes give structure to the database, including the index of official Subjects assigned to specific articles. This feature can be helpful in discovering what terms are used to describe an article in the database, especially when you are having difficulty finding articles that are about what you want. You may also browse the indexes of Journal Names, Authors, and many more.

Adding Articles to a Folder

To add articles to a folder, click on the folder image to the right of each item in the results list or the Add to Folder icon when viewing an individual record. After you add the item to your folder. The folder will change to read Added . When you are ready to see all the results in your folder, just click on the folder icon at the top right of the results.

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Printing

Click the Print button at the top of the screen to open the Print Manager.

Click the Print button to print. This database will automatically print both the citation and abstract. You may deselect either by clicking in the checked boxes beside Additional citation details and abstract (for the citation) and Full Text (when available) (for the Full Text).
To print from PDF Full Text. Click on the printer icon in the top left corner of the Adobe box.

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Emailing

Click on the E-mail icon at the top of the screen to open the E-mail Manager Screen

Type your e-mail address and a subject heading in the text boxes provided.
Click in the boxes next to the formats and/or information you want e-mailed. Choose Full text (when available) [This will send you the article in the text of an email message], Additional citation details and abstract [This will send you the citation of the article], PDF as separate attachment (when available) [This will send you the Page Image in PDF file as an attachment which is viewable with Adobe Acrobat Reader].
You may also send yourself a link to an article or to your last search performed in Education Abstracts. You can do this by clicking on the Links tab and then choosing from either option.
Click the Send button

Search History
Click on the Search History/Alerts tab to see a list of the searches you have performed while in the database. This can be helpful, if you have a result and then lose it. You can also save searches and create alerts using an EBSCO account. This feature is described below.

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My EBSCOhost
The Pace University Library subscribes to the Education Abstracts database and many others from a company named EBSCO. As part of their interface, they have many options that allow you to save your research results in their databases and be notified of new items appearing in the database. These options require you to create and account with a username and password. Click on Sign In to my EBSCOhost in the top left corner of the database and then click on I'm a new user. Fill out the form and be sure to remember the username and password that you choose.
-Save Searches/Alerts (Save your search results by clicking on Search History and then Save Searches/ Alert. After you click on this you can name the search and then click Save. If you save it as an Alert by choosing this button before you click save, then you will receive an email when new articles that meet your search criteria are added to the database.)
**You may login to your EBSCO account from any of the EBSCO databases we subscribe to, however your results will show differently depending upon which database you are in. So if you save a search in Education Abstracts, but then login to your EBSCO account from Medline and open the saved search, your results will be based on the articles available through Medline not Education Abstracts.
-Journal Alerts (Click here from the publication search results screen to be sent an email each time a new issue of a specific publication is entered into the database.)

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SavingClick on the Save icon at the top of your results screen to open the Save Manager.

Choose the Full text (when available) option if you only want the full text article. Choosing Additional citation details and abstract will only send the publication information and possibly a summary of the article. (You may also save links to articles or search strings by choosing the Links tab.)
Click the Save button, which will format the article for saving.
Use your browser's save options. Click on File from the browser's menu.
Click on Save As…
The system will automatically save the results to the a:\ drive. You must specify a filename ending in .txt to save as text format.
Click Save.

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Created by Pace University Library
Instructional Services Team (HL)
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