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Using Subscription Services

Palomar College Library

April 2019

Luke Tesluk

A database for homework and research

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Background on subscription databases

What is a Subscription Database?

Journals, magazines, reports, documents, newspapers, books, images, collections, and more. Provided via libraries and people who are active members of these libraries
Libraries purchase them for patrons

Why use Subscription Databases for research?

Benefits include: peer reviewed by people with experience in the field
Anyone can post an article on a website as opposed to peer reviewed journal
Internet search engines may not provide you with quality articles on your research topic. They don’t search for results in the same way.

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Accessing the Database

We access subscription databases via the Palomar Library Page. Click on the word database on the left.

Step 1

Go to the Palomar College Library homepage

Click on DATABASES

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Choosing a database

Step 2

Step 3

You will be taken to a list of database

Scroll down the list of databases. It is important to select one that is relevant to your research topic.

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Logging in to access a database

You will need to log in with your student ID Number and password in order to access the database

Step 4

You will need to login with your library card number and student ID to access the articles in the database

Student ID #

Email password

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Enter search terms

Step 5

Enter your topic into the search bar. For example, “The Great Depression”

The database will provide a list of subtopics that are relevant to your research topic.

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Finding articles for research

You can search EBESCO’s collection for relevant articles on your research topic. For example lets say you were assigned to write a paper on The Great Depression.

Allows for filtering of results

Can define Publication date

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Understanding a Resource

Subscription services provide background information on each resource. Including the journal that published the article. For example this article was published in the Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society.

Helpful for future research subjects related to topic

Allows a search for relevant articles in the Palomar Library

Full PDF version of article

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Selecting an article

Go through the search results and select one of the articles

Step 6

Scroll down the possible relevant articles and select one

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View article via Full PDF Text

Select PDF Full Text to see entire article

Quickly skip to different sections of the article

Note:

All Tools are always accessible

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Another helpful resource

Use the link to Credo to find other related articles on your subject

Looking back on the list of relevant articles from earlier

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Works Cited:

Palomar College Library(2019) Palomar College

https://www2.palomar.edu/pages/library/

EBESCO Host. Electronic Journals Service

http://ejournals.ebsco.com.ezproxy.palomar.edu/Home.asp

Black, Brian. "Great Depression." In Encyclopedia of American Studies, edited by Simon Bronner. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018. https://login.ezproxy.palomar.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/jhueas/great_depression/0?institutionId=5324