• You don't need a password to search EBSCOhost from anywhere on campus. But if you are connecting from home, you will need a user id and password. Please visit the Request Passwords For Off-Campus Access to Library Databases page for easy instructions.

• You don't need a password to search the Encyclopedia of Religion from anywhere on campus. But if you are connecting from home, you will need a user id and password. Please visit the Request Passwords For Off-Campus Access to Library Databases page for easy instructions.

Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. If an article is "full text," it means that you can view the article immediately. It does not cover every religion journal published, but it covers the core journals and will be sufficient to find a few articles on most topics. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, we recommend that you always search this database.

Catholic Periodical and Literature Index includes over 370,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.

Next choose the On Campus or Off Campus link (don't forget, you'll need a user id and password if you are working from off campus). Once you enter EBSCOhost, the default database will be Academic Search Premier, so if you also wish to include Catholic Periodical and Literature Index and in your search, you have to click the Catholic Periodical and Literature Index checkbox as well. Then click Continue.

You then will see a search screen. Click the blue Advanced Search tab at the top of the page, and you will see a screen that looks like the one below. Let's say that you were doing research on Christian ethics and theology. Here is one way to construct this search:

Note how the connectors OR and AND are being used.

OR: retrieves synonyms or variations of a word.

AND: coordinates the different aspects of your search.

It is a good idea to experiment with different searches, but keep your search as simple as possible.

The end result of your search will be a list of articles that looks like this:

The red arrows show you two possible full-text choices and one non-full-text choice:

HTML Full Text contains the words from the article, but it has been reformatted from the original.

PDF Full Text is a scanned version of the original article, so it will look like a photocopy.

When there is no full text available through EBSCOhost, it says: Check to see if NU Library owns this journal/magazine/newspaper. You can determine if the journal is available by checking the Periodicals Directory (http://www.niagara.edu/library/perdir.html). This will tell you if the journal you need is in the Library or if the full text is available online. If the journal you need is not listed in the Periodicals Directory, you can request your article through the Library's Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Service (www.niagara.edu/library/illstu.html).

Here is how you cite an article obtained through Academic Search Premier using APA style:

Hill, J. A. (2005).  Teaching for Transformation: Insights from Fiji, India,
  South Africa, and Jamaica.  Teaching Theology & Religion, 8, 218-231.
  Retrieved November 2, 2005, from Academic Search Premier.