Academic Search Premier is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary database with access to full-text academic journals, magazines, reports, trade publications and other valuable resources. The database, available through the EBSCOhost search software, offers information in nearly every area of academic study. It contains indexing and abstracts for over 8,450 journals, with full text for more than 4,650 of those titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.
Search tips:
- The Basic and Advanced Search Screens let you create a Boolean search with operators such as AND, OR and NOT. These searches are not designed to yield significant results if you enter long phrases or questions in everyday English. Academic Search Premier doesn't work like Google, keep your searches short, include only important terms and avoid terms like in, of, with etc.
- The wildcard is represented by a question mark ? or a pound sign #. To use the ? wildcard, enter your search terms and replace each unknown character with a ?. EBSCOhost finds all citations of that word with the ? replaced by a letter.
For example, type ne?t to find all citations containing neat, nest or next. EBSCOhost does not find net because the wildcard replaces a single character.To use the # wildcard, enter your search terms, adding the # in places where an alternate spelling may contain an extra character. EBSCOhost finds all citations of the word that appear with or without the extra character. For example, type colo#r to find all citations containing color or colour.
Truncation is represented by an asterisk (*). To use truncation, enter the root of a search term and replace the ending with an *. EBSCOhost finds all forms of that word.
For example, type comput* to find the words computer or computing.Note: The Truncation symbol (*) may also be used between words to match any word.
For example, a midsummer * dream will return results that contain the exact phrase, a midsummer night's dream
- You can set up a personal account that can be used to save search results, presistent links to searches, saved searches, search alerts, journal alerts and web pages to your personal folder.
To set up a personal account select Sign In to My EBSCOhost at the top of the screen. Then select I'm a new user. The Create a New Account Screen appears with Personal Account entered in the Account Type field. Fill in the fields on the Create a New Account Screen. When you have completed the fields, click Submit. If all the information was accepted, a message appears that provides your user name and password. Click OK. You will be automatically logged in as a personal user. You should note the user name and password you created so you can log in at a future session.
Where is it:
Go to the UNLV Libraries' home page http://www.library.unlv.edu. Select the Journal Articles tab, click on the link at the bottom of the box labeled Academic Search Premier.