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HOSTS • Ray Fernandes • Education Media Librarian • FERNANRF@gov.ns.ca • David Lubin • Regional Sales Manager – EBSCO • dlubin@ebscohost.com

AGENDA • Content of EBSCO Databases • Review searching different interfaces • Review “MY EBSCOHOST” • Folders, Alerts • Audiovisual Tutorials • Support Site • Questions and Answers

Advanced Placement Source Canadian Literary Centre Canadian Points of View Reference Centre Canadian Reference Centre Education Research Complete (& ERIC) History Reference Center Literary Reference Center MiddleSearch Plus Primary Search Science Reference Center Vente et Gestion CURRENT DATABASES AVAILABLE

Canadian Reference Centre

Canadian Reference CentreOffers Full-Text Canadian Magazines

French Language Full-Text Content via Canadian Reference Centre

International Magazines Available via Canadian Reference Centre Full text from leading periodicals from theUnited States and United Kingdom, including: Archaeology Architectural Record Astronomy Aviation Week& Space Technology Billboard Business Week Consumer Reports Discover Economist Forbes PC Magazine PC World People Popular Science Red Herring Rolling Stone Science News Scientific American Time U.S. News& World Report Fortune Good Housekeeping History Today Maclean’s Math Trek Men’s Health National Geographic National Wildlife New Scientist New Statesman Newsweek 1999 to present Active Full Text is Unique to EBSCOhost (and NOT available via Gale or ProQuest)

International Magazines Available via Canadian Reference Centre Full text from leading periodicals from theUnited States and United Kingdom, including: Archaeology Architectural Record Astronomy Aviation Week& Space Technology Billboard Business Week Consumer Reports Discover Economist Forbes PC Magazine PC World People Popular Science Red Herring Rolling Stone Science News Scientific American Time U.S. News& World Report Fortune Good Housekeeping History Today Maclean’s Math Trek Men’s Health National Geographic National Wildlife New Scientist New Statesman Newsweek 1990 to present Active Full Text is NOTavailable via ProQuest

International Magazines Available via Canadian Reference Centre Full text from leading periodicals from theUnited States and United Kingdom, including: Archaeology Architectural Record Astronomy Aviation Week& Space Technology Billboard Business Week Consumer Reports Discover Economist Forbes PC Magazine PC World People Popular Science Red Herring Rolling Stone Science News Scientific American Time U.S. News& World Report Fortune Good Housekeeping History Today Maclean’s Math Trek Men’s Health National Geographic National Wildlife New Scientist New Statesman Newsweek 1975 to present (Not yet halted in otherservices, but soon will be)

International Magazines Available via Canadian Reference Centre Full text from leading periodicals from theUnited States and United Kingdom, including: Archaeology Architectural Record Astronomy Aviation Week& Space Technology Billboard Business Week Consumer Reports Discover Economist Forbes PC Magazine PC World People Popular Science Red Herring Rolling Stone Science News Scientific American Time U.S. News& World Report Fortune Good Housekeeping History Today Maclean’s Math Trek Men’s Health National Geographic National Wildlife New Scientist New Statesman Newsweek 1990 to present Active Full Text isNOT available via Gale

International Magazines Available via Canadian Reference Centre Full text from leading periodicals from theUnited States and United Kingdom, including: Archaeology Architectural Record Astronomy Aviation Week& Space Technology Billboard Business Week Consumer Reports Discover Economist Forbes PC Magazine PC World People Popular Science Red Herring Rolling Stone Science News Scientific American Time U.S. News& World Report Fortune Good Housekeeping History Today Maclean’s Math Trek Men’s Health National Geographic National Wildlife New Scientist New Statesman Newsweek

EBSCO has expanded full-text backfiles for magazines such as: Back to 1922 Back to 1975 Back to 1975 Back to 1975 Back to 1931 Back to 1974 Back to 1975 Back to 1934 * Science News will be available in HTML back to 1975 (rather than in PDF)

Canadian Points of View Reference Centre • 150 topics, each with: • Overview (objective background/description) • Point (argument) • Counterpoint (opposing argument) • Critical Thinking Guides • Helps the student judgeFact vs. Opinion • Enhances the student’s abilityto read and think critically

Canadian Points of View Reference Centre • The database contains a balance of materials from all viewpoints • 400 main essays (all written by Canadian authors) • Leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle • Newspapers • Radio & TV news transcripts (including CBC Radio andCBC Television) • Primary source documents • Reference books

Science Reference Center Cover-to-Cover Source Types Full-Text Science Periodicals 181 Full-Text Science Reference Books 626 Full-Text Science Encyclopedias 23 Full-Text Science Essays 812 Full-Text Full-LengthBiographies of Scientists Science Animations 61 Science Images 18,025 Science Videos 519 3,219 * Figures as of June 7, 2010

Science Reference Center Examples of Major Periodicals in Full Text * Most of these magazines are exclusive to EBSCO

Science Reference Center Examples of Major Reference Works in Full Text • Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution • Encyclopedia of World Environmental History • Great Scientific Achievements • History of Science & Technology • Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography • Peterson Field Guide to Atmosphere • Peterson Field Guide to Geology • Peterson Field Guide to Rocks & Minerals • Peterson Field Guide to Stars & Planets • Reader’s Guide to the History of Science • Yearbooks in Science: 1900 to present

History Reference Center Content Types Cover-to-cover Historical Encyclopedias& Other History Reference Books Cover-to-cover History Magazines & Journals Historical Documents Historical Biographies Historical Photos & Maps Historical Film & Video Clips 1,618 150 56,996 79,418 37,487 2,338 * Figures as of June 7, 2010

History Reference Center Includes 1,618 full-text reference books, including: • Encyclopedia of World History (Houghton Mifflin) • Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History • Reader’s Companion to Women’s History • Oxford History of Modern Europe • 1,000 Things You Should Know About Modern History • Early French Explorers of North America

Literary Reference Center Contains…Hundreds of literary reference works from many different publishers • Beacham’s Research Guideto Biography and Criticism • Bloom Series • Columbia Companion to theTwentieth-Century American Short Story • Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope • Continuum Encyclopediaof American Literature • Complete Russian Folktale, The(5 volumes) • Continuum Encyclopediaof British Literature • Encyclopedia BritannicaGuide to Shakespeare • Encyclopedia of British Women Writers • Encyclopedia of Literature & Criticism (Routledge) • English Novel in History (3 volumes) • Handbook of African American Literature • Literary History of England (2 volumes) • MagillOnLiterature Plus • Masterworks of Asian Literature • New Princeton Encyclopediaof Poetry and Poetics • Oxford Illustrated Historyof English Literature • Routledge Anthology of Poets on Poets • Routledge Companion to Russian Literature • Understanding Literature Series • Who’s Who in Non-Classical Mythology

Comparison of Literary Resources Gale LRC EBSCO LRC Category Author Biographies Plot Summaries, Synopses,Work Overviews Literary Criticism Essays Full-Text Journals Full-Text Book Reviews Full-Text Poems, Short Stories & Plays Full-Text Classic Books 135,000** 11,000** 75,000** 414 513,000** 30,000** N/A 179,396* 34,381 88,457 450 681,473 75,517 8,231 * Includes 22,000 In-Depth Biographies that are unmatched in quality ** Information from Gale Literature Resource Center website, accessed July 28, 2010http://www.gale.cengage.com/LitSolutions/lit_resources/lrc/more.htm

Canadian Literary Centre Contains the leading Canadian literary periodicals with deep backfiles • Books in Canada (full text from 1971 to 2008) • Canadian Literature (abstracts from 1992 to present) • Essays on Canadian Writing (full text from 1974 to present) • Letters in Canada (full text from 1993 to present) • Quill & Quire (full text from 1996 to present) • Textual Studies in Canada (full text from 1991 to 2004) • University of Toronto Quarterly (full text from 1975 to present)

“The only source of electronic access to the current issues and past archives of the leading Canadian literary periodicals”

Canadian Literary Centre Contains leading Canadian literary reference books in full text • Annotated Bibliography of Canada’s Major Authors • Canadian Biography Series • Canadian Fiction Studies • Canadian Writers and Their Works: Fiction Series • Canadian Writers and Their Works: Poetry Series • ECW’s Biographical Guide to Canadian Novelists • ECW’s Biographical Guide to Canadian Poets • Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace: A Reader’s Guide • And many more

ADVANCED PLACEMENT SOURCE Content Includes: -More than 5,300 full-text academic journals and magazines Nearly 960,000 photos, maps and flags Subjects Include: The Arts & Music Biology Chemistry Computer Science Economics & Statistics

Vente Et Gestion Content Includes: Full-text coverage for French language business journals Subjects Include: Accounting and TaxAdministrationIndustry and ManufacturingLogisticsMarketingTechnology

Middle Search Plus Content Includes: Contains full text for a variety of popular middle school magazines Subjects Include: • More than 160 full-text periodicals • Thousands of relevant photos, maps and flags • Over 102,000 full-text biographies • Over 106,000 primary source documents

Primary Search Primary Search is the only magazine database which is truly appropriate for elementary students (based on Lexile reading levels) Reading Level Indicators are provided

Top Quality Children’s Magazines

253 Reference Books, including Encyclopedia of Animals,Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, and:

Lexiles Age-Appropriate Content Only

CONTACT INFORMATION • Ray Fernandes • Education Media Librarian • FERNANRF@gov.ns.ca • David Lubin • Regional Sales Manager – EBSCO • dlubin@ebscohost.com

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