Three things that undergrad students should know about EBSCO

Three short but sweet things that students would find useful about EBSCOhost:


1. EBSCO is a vendor and a portal to other databases. It is not in itself a database. I see a lot of students coming in refering to EBSCO as a database onto itself, and then get frustrated when they can't find what they want. Letting students know what is in the EBSCO suite seems to eliminate a lot of confusion.

2. You can change the preferences in EBSCO (under the preference link) to show a details from a search, rather than just brief bibliographic data. This eliminated the need to individually click on a resource to view the abstract, and speeds the searching process up greatly.

3. Citing .pdfs, for all practical purposes, are no different than having the physical journal in front of you. They do not count as "internet" sources.