EBSCOhost is a group of periodical indexes, often including full-text articles, covering many scholarly journals and popular subjects. The databases include:

	Academic Search Premier 1984. Provides full text for more than 3,800 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences and ethnic studies.
	American Humanities Index. A collection of bibliographic references to over 1,000 literary, scholarly and creative journals published in the United States and Canada from 1975.
	Biomedical Reference Collection. Provides access to 100 full text journals covering such disciplines as clinical medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and the preclinical sciences.
	Business Source Premier. The world’s largest full text business database. Provides full text for 3,650 scholarly business journals, including full text for 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Provides full text for more than 300 scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Updated daily.
	CINAHL 1982. The Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. Indexing and abstracting for over 1,600 journals and publications from 1982, over 700,000 records.
	Communication & Mass Media Complete. Provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. Is the result of the merging of two databases -- CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association (NCA)), and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Pennsylvania State University).
	Clinical Pharmacology. Provides access up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.
	EBSCO Animals. Provides in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals.
	ERIC. ERIC, the U.S. Department of Education Educational Resource Information Center database, contains citations and abstracts from over 980 educational and education-related journals, as well as full text of more than 2,200 digests.
	Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia. Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries.
	Health Source: Consumer Edition. With Health Source: Consumer Edition you can search for information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition features searchable full text for nearly 160 journals including the British Medical Journal and The Lancet, as well as abstracts and indexing for over 170 general health, nutrition and professional health care publications.
	MAS Ultra: School Edition. Provides full text for over 460 general interest and current events magazines.
	MasterFILE Premier 1984 . Provides full text for nearly 1,860 periodicals covering nearly all subjects including general reference, business, health, and much more.
	MEDLINE. MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search abstracts from over 4,600 current biomedical journals.
	Military FullTEXT. Provides full text for over 320 military related periodicals and general interest magazines.
	Newspaper Source. Full text for 170 regional U.S. newspapers, (a mostly different list than available from LexisNexis); international newspapers, newswires, and newspaper columns, The Christian Science Monitor and The Los Angeles Times.
	Primary Search. Provides full text for over 50 children’s magazines and over 100 children’s pamphlets, designed for the elementary school student.
	Pre-CINAUL. Description: A companion database to CINAUL. Includes index of entries of new publications that have not yet been included in CINAUL.
	Professional Development Collection. Provides a highly specialized collection of nearly 440 full text journals, designed for professional educators.
	Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection. A comprehensive database with nearly 480 full text titles covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
	Regional Business News. Regional Business News is a full text newswire database that incorporates business wires from all over the world.
	Religion and Philosophy. Provides coverage of world religions, denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and history of philosophy. Offers 300 full text journals, including more than 250 peer-reviewed titles, making it an essential tool for researchers and students of theology and philosophical studies. Updated daily.
	Serials Directory. Provides up-to-date and accurate bibliographic information and pricing for over 178,500 U.S. and international periodicals.

Getting Started

From the library's webpage http://www.rcc.mass.edu/lib click on Databases, and after choosing the appropriate on-campus or off-campus access, click on EBSCOhost. (Remember, off-campus access requires a valid library barcode number)

Searching
Keyword Searching (default search)
This search will look for your keywords in author, title, source (journal or magazine) and subject, and display a list of articles.

Example: Asthma and children

Natural Language Search
To enter a search as a sentence or phrase, choose the Natural Language Search option at the top of the page.

Example: rising medical costs in the United States

Advanced Search
Click on Advanced Search tab at the top of the page to search using indexes of specific fields such as author, journal or title.

Limiting
Use the Limit functions below the search box to limit your search to find, for example, only Full Text or Peer Reviewed articles, only articles from particular Magazines or Journals, or only publications issued during specific Date ranges.

Truncation
To find all words with the same root, use the asterisk as a truncator.
Example: school* finds school, schools, schoolbook, etc.

Viewing Search Results
Use on-screen small blue triangle-arrows to move through the citation list. To view full text articles click on the blue underlined words Full Text.

Downloading, Printing or Emailing
One record at a time: Display full-text, if available, by clicking on blue underlined words Full Text.
Or
Several records at once: While viewing citations, mark the records you wish to retrieve by clicking in the box beside the citation.
Then
Click on blue Print/Email/Save button. On the next screen, check that the settings for options 1 through 4 are as desired, and then in option 5 choose Print, Save or Email. Finally, click submit.

• Printing: If you chose the print option, click on the Print button in the browser. Note: in the RCC Library, printing costs $.10 per page. Pick up copies at the Circulation desk.
• Downloading to disk: If you chose the save option, click File on the Browser bar, and go to Save as. Please be sure to save to your a: drive as files saved to the c: drive will be erased when the computer is shut off.
• Emailing: If you chose Email enter your email address and an optional subject. Records will automatically be sent in full-text if available.