EBSCO

Ebsco
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This search system can be quite frustrating. The subject searching seems to work better for me than keywords. I put in a fairly general search and then use the terms in the left hand column to help me refine. The thing that I love about EBSCO’s set up is the ease of finding articles that you already know where they are. For example – a history teacher often sends kids down to find specific articles from specific issues of American History Illustrated magazine. If they have the date of the issue they can easily browse that issue’s contents until they find the article. (Although having the correct title is easier – I can dream…) The only downside is that the magazines that are available in full text tend not to be back cataloged. So if you are looking for an issue that came out before 1985 (or even later depending on the magazine) you are out of luck. But you do have other options that we will look at in the indexes section.