Academic Search Complete
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- Brief description Multidisciplinary full text database
- Resource type Full-text journals
- EBSCOhost Accessibility Navigation Guide
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Access
On and Off-campus access is via your University of Cumbria login details - a pop-up box will ask you to enter your username and password.
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All EBSCO databases are moving to a new interface on the 5th August.
If you have Saved searches and records, these will be automatically transferred.
Custom folders and Alerts will not transfer. The new interface will give you an option to download a report of your old folders (In projects) but this is a large unwieldy file. There a few things you can do in the current site to avoid this:
- Delete any custom folders you no longer need.
- If you have saved searches in a custom folder, you can select it and "Move to" the Saved searched folder.
- Back up saved items in RefWorks.
- Search Alerts will need to be retrieved and saved as a search to be recreated in the new interface.
- Journal alerts will need to be set up in the new interface, so keep a list.
Full Details
A full text database of over 5,500 journals in most subject areas including animal science, anthropology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic and multicultural studies, food science and technology, general science, geography, geology, law, materials science, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, pharmaceutical sciences, physics, psychology, religion and theology, veterinary science, women's studies, zoology, and many other fields In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals.
Date Range
Varies according to the journal – some go back as far as 1887.
Size
Over 5,500 journals including more than 4,600 peer reviewed titles, plus over 10,000 publications including monographs, reports and conference proceedings.
Features
Basic search to find a phrase or keyword. Advanced search to combine searches using Boolean operators. Subject search using the index of subject headings. Guide to Subject searching.
Search Tips
Searches can be refined to just full text articles, or by date, by publication, by publication type, or to articles which contain images.
Other information
Some journals have an embargo, so there may be a delay before recent issues are made available.