EBSCOHost:
Information at a Glance
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Resource Type
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Group of online Indexes combined on one search engine. |
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Subject Area
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All subject areas.
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Availability
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Trent
- Access available to any valid Trent user, using their Novell Password
in the Library, or at home through the PROXY SERVER. CD-ROM also
available (1991-1994) at the Bata Library.
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How to Access
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Click
here to connect to all EBSCOHost databases.
For off campus access, learn how to
use the proxy server
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Description
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Databases include:
- Academic Search Elite
- Academic Search Elite offers full text for more than 2,000 journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. This multi-disciplinary database covers virtually every area of academic study
- America: History & Life
- America: History & Life is the definitive index of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present, this database is the most important bibliographic reference tool for students and scholars of U.S. and Canadian history. Strong English-language journal coverage is balanced by an international perspective on topics and events, including abstracts in English of articles published in more than 40 languages.
- Bibliography of Native North Americans
- Bibliography of Native North Americans (BNNA) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. BNNA contains more than 100,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
- Business Source Complete
- This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing
the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part
of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and
abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as
far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited
references provided for more than 1,200 journals.
- Canadian Reference Centre
- Canadian Reference Centre combines Canadian magazines, newspapers, newswires and reference books to create the largest collection of regional full text content available to Canadian libraries. This database includes leading Canadian periodicals and international (U.S. and U.K) periodicals in full text; full text reference books; full text biographies and an Image Collection.
- Historical Abstracts
- Historical Abstracts is an exceptional resource that covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more - essential for libraries supporting upper-division and graduate research. This authoritative database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955.
- MLA International Bibliography
- MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations. Produced by the Modern Language Association, the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series and 1,000 book publishers. The indexed materials coverage is international and includes almost 60 titles from J-STOR’s language and literature collection as well as links to full text.
- MLA Directory of Periodicals
- Detailed information on over 7,100 journals, with 4,400 currently indexed in the International Bibliography. The detailed entries include editorial contact information, as well as frequency, circulation, subscription prices and submission guidelines.
- Regional Business News
- This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.
- CINAHL
- CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 2,857 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982. We currently subscribe to CINAHL from Ovid but we plan to move to EBSCO in the future.
- Pre-CINAHL
- A companion database to CINAHL, Pre-CINAHL is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing.
- Political Science Complete
- Political Science Complete provides full text for more than 500 journals. In addition to the full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for over 2,900 titles. As well, there are more than 340 full text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full text conference papers.
- Public Affairs Index
- Public Affairs Index is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of global contemporary public policy issues ranging from public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, to international conflict and natural disasters. It draws on a diverse array of scholarly publications, conference papers, government documents and current reference works to provide up-to-date information on the broad range of topics of concern to the world today.
- Public Administration Abstracts
- Public Administration Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 93,600 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline, such as: Journal of Public Economics, Public Administration, Public Administration Review, etc. EBSCO has digitized the full archive of this index, bringing coverage back to 1974.
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Select the citations you wish to download to RefWorks:
- Choose several from your results list by clicking "Add to Folder", then select "Folder View".
- OR, select only one citation by going to the complete record (click on the title).
Choose "Export" from the options on the right-hand side of the screen.
Select "Direct Export to RefWorks" from the next screen. RefWorks will open; once you have logged into your account the items will be downloaded.
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Mobile Access |
See the Mobile Access information for EBSCOHost. |
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Notes
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This database works with to locate full-text availability.
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Coverage
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Varies with database.
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Update Frequency |
Ongoing. |
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Stable URL
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A stable url (or persistent link) is a link that connects a user to a particular item in a database or on the web.
To find a link back to a particular citation, click on "Permalink" on the right-hand side of the screen and copy the link provided. (Remember to include the proxy prefix below if you want to provide off-campus access.)
Some EBSCOHost citations use the doi system to create a stable link.
To link to a particular article, look for the line that says:
To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/####.###.
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://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbbm.2007.04.008
Since this database also contains links to you can use the "Save Citation" data to create a link to the article.
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