Hi everyone. Today we are going to talk about the library's discovery system. That's what
this box is here. It used to say quick search up here and then we just updated it to a different
search system. This is EBSCO Discovery Service, and it looks pretty much the same,
but it does operate a little bit differently. And it will get you a lot better access to materials
we have access to at CSU Global. So, I'm just, you can just type in whatever kind of search you
want to do. I'll type in PTSD, run a search. I often will open from the advanced search screen,
but we can just run a search here too, and it'll search right from the page.
Then, once this opens up, what this is doing, discovery service search,
for CSU Global Campus. This is searching all of our databases at once so that you don't have to
go through and search each database individually. This is searching all of them at the same time.
And it works a little bit differently than the old system. One thing that's kind of interesting,
if you're going to search like this, this first item that comes up, this is the most
basic article they could find on this. This is a, if you're looking to start your research and you
really don't know that much about post-traumatic stress disorder, or you want some basic facts,
you can go here to the research starter. And what this will do, this brings up an article
that's just a great overview of this topic. It's not a journal article, it's just, it's from McGill
medical guide. And it just gives you a total overview of this. You may need to start there.
You might not, but it's kind of a nice thing. If I go back here to the result list, so, that's what,
that is what you'll see at the top of the page. Let me just look through and you can see it's
searching through all the different databases. There's, there's books there, there's videos,
there's articles. But let's say we wanted to be a little more specific about this. So,
let's say your instructor wants you just to find peer-reviewed or scholarly articles. Click there,
right over here on the left and then it'll go through and take out anything that isn't from
a peer-reviewed journal. Do you see, you have a hundred twenty one thousand hundred and fifty-five
there. And I'll be doing some different things here. Let's say we're, we just want articles
that are more current. So, these articles go all the way back to 1977. If you take this date slider
and pull it this way, or you could also just enter the year in that left box. I'm going to say just
the last few years of articles. How about 2016 to 2020? so, now it's updating that. Now, we're down
to, you can always tell how many you have. Thirty two thousand nine hundred and ten. At this point,
you could just go into these articles, and you would find them. This one is sending you
to Health Policy Reference Center. This one's sending you to Social Sciences Full Text. So,
it's searching through all of the databases at once, which is nice. And it'll give you full
access to everything that that comes up here. Pretty easy to use. Let me make this search
maybe a little more broad. PTSD or post-traumatic stress. Now, I have typed that in earlier so it's
kind of remembering what I did, but I'll just do this here. So, now, PTSD or post-traumatic stress,
either of those. And I want either of those have to be in the titles of the entries that come back.
So, what's going through those thirty two thousand nine hundred and ten then it takes it. Now we have
down to four thousand thirty one. So, that narrowed it down quite a bit. And we could
open up any of these. You see they're all leading you to different places, and if you see one that
you can go just into the article here to learn more about the article. And there's a citation
feature in here as well, and then if you want to, if you want to view that article, click whatever
link they give you, and it'll take you into that database to view the article. Let's go back to the
result list here. Sometimes you'll see this thing that says full text finder. So, it's going to look
for the article. It's going to give you some different options. So, with full text finder,
when I click there, I can see where it found it. It says well, looks like there's probably open
access on the publisher's website. It looks like it's also in the ScienceDirect database. And, and,
looks like they found an entry for it in PubMed Central. Let me click on ScienceDirect. It's one
of the databases we have a subscription to. So, there's the disc, there's the article right there,
so this, what this does EBSCO Discovery Service. It just takes you, it links you to all the
different databases that we have for articles, and it'll give you some open access ones,
to like that directory of open access journals. Now, let's say we want to get more specific.
We've got just scholarly journals, we've got just 2016 to 2020. Let's go over here and say
what about content provider. This is kind of a, an interesting limit you could put on. Since it's
searching through all of the databases, maybe that's, you know, now you're ready to get more
specific. I'm going to click here, show more. This is all the databases they found results in. And,
just looking through here, let's say, well I just, I just want to see what's in Academic Search
Premier. If you click that, and update, then it'll go through that search and just run that in that
one database. Where it was running everything so far in all the databases, now it's just,
it's taking that search and just down to one database. You can see Academic Search Premier,
Academic Search Premier. You've got the full-text right there, and we've still got 2016 to 2020 on.
They're still peer-reviewed. So that's the basics of how this works. There will be other videos that
show you more specific aspects of this. But, this is how it works. If you have any issues, please
get in touch with me. I'd love to answer your questions about this, and any feedback, good, bad,
or whatever, please send my way, and I'll get back in touch with you. Thank you so much for watching.