EBSCO describes itself as ‘the leading discovery service provider for libraries worldwide with more than 8,000 discovery customers in over 100 countries. EBSCO Discovery Service™ provides each institution with a comprehensive, single search box for its entire collection, offering unparalleled relevance ranking quality and extensive customization.’ (EBSCO, 2015) This all sounds very impressive but how does it stand up in comparison to other databases and just how easy is it use? This review will set out to show the advantages and disadvantages of using EBSCO Host and what it has to offer.
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EBSCO Host acts as a platform for a varied collection of databases. This resource allows the user to browse across multiple databases with a
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A quick keyword search using the term ‘business’ brought up 8,952,111 results as you can see in the accompanying screenshot. The impressive date range stretches from the year 1644 to 2016. This is of course too much information to sort through but on the left hand side of the page, EBSCO offers a range of refining features to narrow your search term. However not all of the refining features work as they should. For example, the geography filter is not the most accurate, there is uncertainty if geography is categorised by topic, publisher or author. Furthermore when a geographical location is selected, the results are inaccurate, although this is mainly because the databases which EBSCO searches through do not always accurately define the article’s location. (EBSCO Host, 2016)
One of the advantages of this platform is its thesaurus and predictive search terms which allow you to search at ease. Other databases for example Passport are only capable of searching an exact phrase in an exact term. EBSCO Host manages to predict your search, or similar searches which helps those who may lack confidence. EBSCO states that its ‘neutral relevance ranking strategy uses numerous criteria, including term frequency, field weighting, exact title matching and content attribute boosting, to provide users with the most relevant results for each query’ (Kelley, 2013). I feel that this is something that EBSCO Host does successfully. Each search I
To make the search more effective and efficient, the advanced search was used in all three databases. Utilising the advance search setting options over the basic search setting allows the search to be made more specific (Aveyard, 2014, Moule & Goodman, 2009).
Metadata will include access management, preservation, administrative, descriptive, technical and structural data. Much of the metadata will have to be created. The original volumes had no table of contents, index, or other description of the records. Additionally, volumes were arranged chronologically with no attention paid to document type, source, or content. In addition to author, title, publisher, and date, descriptive metadata will be expanded include keywords regarding subjects, individuals, locations, or events referenced in the document, as well as any related documents. This will be a time consuming and costly effort, but it required to maximize the value of the online data to researchers, students, teachers, etc. An index for all volumes was completed after the fact in 1909 and that index will be incorporated into a referential database behind the web page front end, rather than in the metadata itself. A complete list of metadata elements are provided in Appendix
We are developing a system where the user can connect with different databases. We have single browser for all the databases we use. We can export the results to spreadsheet. Even the exception handling gets better.
Sources of business information can come in a variety of different forms which include: Newspapers, Websites, Books, Posters, Directories,
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I used these databases in order to find a higher valued scholarly article with academic merit. I used the same key terms from my previous article search in the online database at the library.
The Barrie Public library offers several different forms of digital media to the general public such as eBooks and audio books. Another form of digital media that can prove to be useful tool for many different people is a form called online databases. An online line database can be defined as a searchable collection of information. Each database can contain thousands of articles which can be searched for quickly and easily. These databases include materials such as journals, newspapers, magazines, repots, newsletters, and sometimes even books. Most library's carry some kind of online database and these databases can be easily accessed by the patrons of this library by simply visiting the library's website. However in the case of some
EBSCO is a resource that I have been utilizing also. I too am trying to find a nursing article that will fit this assignment. I have also selected the topic of show, don’t tell for this paper. I almost changed my topic, I agree that it will be hard to find a nursing article that actually uses show don’t tell. I figure that I will be explaining when we could use this rule in the article. Hopefully there will be times when the rule could be used in the article. I selected articles about nursing education. That is a topic that I would like to explore further. Good luck with the
This article is a peer reviewed article found using EBSCOHost.This research study takes 197 five year-olds with low socioeconomic status who are entering kindergarten and compares four different literacy techniques for invented spelling. This study uses the literacy continuum as a basis for its instruction. The group which had the most success and progressed the most were in a process-product mediation group meaning they are the students who were given the opportunity to spell a word first and then were corrected at one level above their application level on the continuum. This means the instructor corrected one aspect of their spelling rather than giving them the word 100% correctly spelled. For example, if they were trying to write the word
This article was found using a search on EBSCOhost through the College of William and Mary’s library database. Watson and Bellon-Harn clearly lay out specific steps to begin a journey of collaborative teaching between speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and classroom teachers. The intended audience of the article is primarily two groups—SLPs and kindergarten classroom teachers. It offers many detailed examples and suggestions as to how an SLP can contribute to the early readers learning experience. First, the article explains Response to Intervention (RTI). Then it transitions into the six steps SLPs and kindergarten teachers must follow to find success as a collaborative team. The article concludes with specific steps for planning lessons
Using the first few results in each search I didn’t really see much of a difference in accuracy between either Google or EBSCO. Both provided sources where fact checking and subject verification would have been completed. The
Databases generally are essential in retrieving relevant information about a subject matter. The process of storing and gathering information is increasing each day and with this, the use of databases is rising as well. There are several databases in the modern world and each one of them is associated with specific types of search processes and materials. The study intends to critically analyze the databases of EBSCOhost and ProQuest using PGCC Library resource in order to portray the differences between the two while investigating their different aspects.
While doing some of my research, I chose to use Computer Source as my database. The main subject of the database was trends in technology. It allowed me to search trends from any time which was particularly helpful for my topic. The type of search that can be completed using this database is Boolean searching. This type of searching style came in handy because the information I was searching for involved the cyber world, so it made it easier to differentiate which aspect of the cyber world I was researching. For example, differentiating between Cyber Terrorism and Terrorism or Cyber Warfare. Computer Source lets its users search by publication date rather than by scholarship level. Computer Source also showed similarities with Academic Search Complete in that they shared similar fields. But after conducting similar searches, Computer Source provided me with more relevant information. Overall, my search results were more refined and
The database used should be open and industry standard to allow easy integration with other applications and easy movement of data in the future. The database
When reviewing the EBSCO help tools it explains that even in a basic search there are still search options. Help tools similarly explain, options for selecting phrases, choosing AND/OR, and even turn on a smart text search, which leverages technology to conduct the best results. Without limiting the search a basic search of mobile banking turns up 11,081 items. This is a much smaller pool than what ProQuest brought up, however, EBSCO seems to be more business focused and also lists, newspapers, magazines, trade publications and videos.