Getting Ready to use Acadmic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier is a search engine that you can use to search a variety of different journals and magazines on various topics. This scholarly collection provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study, including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies.

Academic Search Premier features:

·         contains indexing for 8,175 publications

·         Full text for more than 4,700 titles

·         PDF back files to 1985 or further are available for well over one hundred journals

·          Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

·          Over 1.4 million company records from Dun & Bradstreet

·          Coverage of The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and The Christian Science Monitor

·          Over 1,000 journals with images       

·         This is an EBSCOHost database, and can be search individually or in combination with other EBSCOHost databases.

·         Coverage

·         Indexing: Varies by title, 1985-Present

·          Full Text: Varies by title, 1985-Present

·         Information Type:

 Citations? Yes

 Abstracts? Yes

·         Full Text? Yes

·         Frequency of Updates:

Daily

·         Help & More Information:

List of included journals and magazines

·         Related Databases:

·          News and Current Events  

Based on those features I believe Academic Search Premier is a good search website to find articles and databases on my topic.

I have already used the search engine in another class when I took cell biology one years ago.

I was searching for an article talking about the experiment I was doing. It was not easy. I should have taken IM 204 before enrolled into any science classes which required to handle a researh paper at the end of the semester that will made my life easy. I really do not remenber how I used the search premier database website. I remember asking to the librarian for help.

I did use another database to do my research for the same class ,it was ACS Chemistry Journals  because the paper I had written had some chemistry aspects that I had to develop. I remembered click on the "articles and databases" and typed couple keys words. Basically, it is easy to do it when you are searching for scientist research. In my case because I a scientist. All you have to do is, type the name of the experiment and from the abstract you can see if in the experiment researchers or professors (or who conduct the experiment) are using the same chemicals or similar ones and decide if you will use it or not.

I wonder if I will  find good information regarding my research topic like I did on chemistry matter subject. English is hard and communication more harder. It is easy to find for me something in science fields and understand it right away compared to searching on sociology or social humanity matter. I hope be lucky and using skills I have acquired here in that class.