Tutorial
Guide no. 33
ADVANCE SEARCH IN ERIC AND
LIMITING YOUR RESULTS
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WHY USING LIMITERS?
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To narrow your search results by:
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Full Text
Peer Reviewed
Date Published
Educational Level
Intended Audience
Journal Name
ERIC number
Journal or Document
Publication Type
Language
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Search ERIC data base with limiters options
Select EBSCO (Education)
ERIC
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To access, go to
http://www.usuniversity.edu/student_services_library.php
• 1. From home page, look for the bar
across the page, click on STUDENT
SERVICES or look for Library, under
STUDENT SERVICES.
• 2. Select US University Online full text
databases
• 3. Scroll down to EBSCO EDUCATION
(ERIC)
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http://www.usuniversity.edu/student_services_library.php
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Or look for Library, under STUDENT
SERVICES at the bottom of HOME page
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Select US University Online full text databases
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Select Education
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4. At the bottom of the page you will find the
EBSCO EDUCATION (ERIC) link.
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5. For ID & Password, go to your personal US
University e-mail or contact the Librarian
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Select the INDEXES, see tutorial 32 to
learn how to search
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If we search for “The American Education System”, we start Browsing for
EDUCATION and
in Browse an Index select Descriptor field. Click in as
many terms as you need. Now ADD to search using the AND option.
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Automatically all terms selected will appear in the
searching box, and click the Search button for results
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Let’s limit the results, there are too many. Click in the
Full Text & Peer Reviewed box and in the Update
Results.
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Add to the search United States with the TI Title field option (instead of
using America) and click the search button. It pops up the Smart /text
Searching tool, click in the Search button
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The results were limited considerably for The
American Education System
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Example 2
Cross Cultural Education
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Let’s search directly in the Advanced Search selecting
Ti Title in the Field option and limit results to Full
Text only
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Continue limiting your results by selecting dates, Educational
Level, and Intended Audience
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From the number of results, we need to
expand the search
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Select to search AB Abstract in the field
option
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Let’s select SU Descriptors in the field option
and Search the Smart Text
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Go to your results, are they satisfactory?
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To copy paste the link of the 19 results, click in Alert/Save/Share and click
in the Permalink
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&bquery=(XX+%22su%22%5b100%5d+OR+XX+%22cross%22%5b50%5d+OR+XX+%22cultural%22%5
b36%5d)+and+(SU+EDUCATION)&cli0=FT&clv0=Y&cli1=RV&clv1=Y&cli2=DT1&clv2=200801201008&cli3=DE3&clv3=Higher+Education&cli4=AG2&clv4=Teachers&type=1&site=ehost-live
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Your results can be saved in your EBSCO HOST folder, e mail it
and print. To save in EBSCO server, go to Searching Medline
Register EbscoHost Alerts
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Now you have to continue your own journey
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Second stop, please go to Searching Eric Thesaurus & Index and
Academic Search Premier Visual Search
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Third Stop, and Plagiarism
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Fourth stop, Create Alerts and Files in EBSCO and Information
Cycle
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Fifth Stop, OPEN SOURCES
http://www.usuniversity.edu/student_services_library_informatio
n.php
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and Collections
http://www.usuniversity.edu/student_services_library_collections.
php
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Thank you for taking the time to learn!
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For more information
• Please contact
• M.L.S Catalina Lopez
• clopez@usuniversity.edu
• (619) 477 6310 ext 2017
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