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Academic Search Elite : Information at a Glance

Resource Type
Online index with citations, abstracts, and links to full-text where available.
Subject Area
Multidisciplinary - all subjects.
Availability
Trent - Access available to any valid Trent user, using their Novell Password in the Library, or at home through the PROXY SERVER.
How to Access

Click here to connect to Academic Search Elite.

For off campus access, learn how to use the proxy server
Description

Academic Search Elite provides full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all 3,484 journals in the collection.

This database offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies and more. Examples of titles offered in Academic Search Elite include: American Historical Review, American Journal of Political Science, American Libraries, American Sociologist, British Journal of Psychology, British Journal of Sociology, Central European History, Contemporary Literature, Early American Literature, Journal of Social Psychology, Library Journal, Social Forces, Sociological Review, Theological Studies, Women's Studies, etc.

In addition to journal coverage, Academic Search Elite provides full text information from a variety of source-types such as scholarly monographs. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1985. (from the website)

Academic Search Elite is a database from EBSCO publishers. See more information on the EBSCO site.

Click here to learn how to use RefWorks with this database.
Notes
This database works with to locate full-text availability of articles not already included in the database.
Coverage
1985 - Current
Update Frequency
Daily.
Stable URL

A stable url (or persistent link) is a link that connects a user to a particular item in a database or on the web. In Academic Search Elite, to link to a particular record in the database, look for the label:

Persistent link to this record:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=
......

To ensure off-campus access, include the proxy prefix:
http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=

Example: http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&AN=25750435&site=ehost-live

Since this database also contains links to you can use the "Save Citation" data to create a link to an article.

 
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