Using Expanded Academic Index Database

Expanded Academic Index contains citations, abstracts, and many full text articles in the areas of astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications, and the general sciences.

ACCESS:  (If you are off campus, access the database from this page.)

• Go to the Easley Library home page

• Highlight and click on "Expanded Academic Index"

• Click on the "start searching" button for Expanded Academic Index ASAP to search this index.

SEARCH:

• From the side bar on the left-hand side highlight the type of search you wish to conduct:

1. Subject guide search (topic search).  Limit this to one or two words.  If any additional words needed, use the Advanced search option.
    

2. Relevance search (retrieves articles matching words that occur in the articles with the best matches displayed first).
    

3. Keyword search (retrieves articles matching words that occur in the articles themselves displayed from newest to oldest).
    

4. Advanced search (retrieves articles using more than one index or logic operators and, or, not)  An advanced search lets you search by key word, title, date, journal name, text word, subject, author, abstract, refereed, content, record number.

           Example:
                   

R1 anorexia OR bulimia (105 hits)
R2 R1 AND adolescents (7 hits)

• Click on the entry box.
   

• Enter one or more words.

Example: Tara Lipinski

Example: literacy

Example: speech pathology AND children (retrieves items containing all terms)

Example: anorexia OR bulimia (retrieves items containing either term)

Example: basketball NOT college (retrieves items containing the first term, but excludes items containing the second term)

• Click on the "Search" button

LIMIT THE CURRENT SEARCH: 

• Imposes specific controls on the search and helps you to focus your search to relevant results.
   

1. Full text: limits to only articles with full-text.  Click on this box to impose or remove this limitation.
    

2. Referred (this refers to scholarly articles that are peer-reviewed articles; those which have met high standards judged by peers in a field)
    

3. Date range (limits articles to those published at times you specify.)   Do not use hypens when indicating dates.
   
   Examples:    19960816, August 16, 1996 retrieves articles that appear on August 16, 1996. 

   before 12/26/98, <12/26/98 retrieves articles written before            December 12, 1998.
   since 2/1/99, >2/1/99 retrieves articles written after 2/1/99.
   le 1/31/90 retrieves articles on or before 1/31/90

4. Journals (limits to articles from a specific journal)
    

HISTORY/DISPLAY:

• A display list of retrieved citations will appear

• Select View to see citations.

• Use the down arrow at the bottom of the screen to scroll down the page

• Click on any of the underlined words to view your selection

View text means that the full text of the article is available for viewing

View text with graphics means that references, text and graphics are available for viewing

View abstract means that an abstract is available, but full text is not

View extended citation means that just the bibliographic citation is available

• Select Modify to add additional search terms to your query.
   

• Use the down and up arrows on the right-side of the screen to scroll down or up the page

• Click on "first page" button, "previous page" button, "next page" button, or "last page" button to navigate through the displayed citation list
   

• Select "start over" in the left-hand column to clear the search history.

MARK:

• After viewing a selected article from the displayed list, click on the "Back" or "Forward" arrow at the top of the page  to return to the last citation viewed or to proceed to the next citation in the list.  To list

• Click on the box to the left of each citation you wish to mark for printing.  This will set aside selected citations for later action or viewing.

• Continue through the citation list until you have marked all citations you wish to print.  Only citations will print using this method.  To print full-text articles, you must print them individually.

• Select the "View Marked List" in the left-hand column when you want to view your selections.

PRINT:

• On the left click on "print."

• Click on the "print" button from the tool bar.

• Click on "ok".

• You can email a full-text article to yourself by placing your email address in the appropriate box.  Type the subject of the article or leave it blank to default the choice to title.

SEARCH STRATEGY:

• Place " " around a phrase.  Example: "child abuse".
   

• Place a + before words that articles retrieved must match.  Example: +religion (Will retrieve articles that contain religion.)
   

• Place a - before words that articles retrieved must not contain.  Example: -"pesticide control" (Will retrieve articles that do not contain the words pesticide control.
   

• * placed after a word will retrieve alternate word endings.  Example: exhort* (Retrieves exhort, exhorts, exhortations, etc.
   

• ? retrieves words with exactly one character.  Example: psych????y (Retrieves psychology or psychiatry but not psychotherapy.
   

• ! retrieves one or no characters and is best for singular or plurals.  Example: hurricane! (Retrieves hurricane or hurricanes)