Expanded Academic ASAP offers
balanced coverage of every academic concentration —
from advertising and microbiology to history and
women's studies.
Expanded Academic ASAP offers
more than 4,200 indexed and more than 2,500
full-text titles in a wide variety of disciplines
including: social science journals, humanities
journals, science and technology journals, national
news periodicals, general interest magazines,
newswires, The New York Times and many
others. More than 2,800 journals are refereed, and
more than 20 years of backfile coverage are
included.
All of the journals in Expanded Academic
ASAP are also included in
Academic OneFile, along with hundreds of
additional journal titles.
(Please note that Expanded Academic
ASAP may be searched
simultaneously with several InfoTrac databases by
using
Thomson Gale PowerSearch).
You may access Expanded Academic ASAP
from anywhere with a valid APSU ID.
How To Search Expanded Academic ASAP
SEARCH TYPES: There are 4 search types:
basic, subject guide, publication, and advanced.
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In an
advanced search, there are 3 search
boxes (you can add more rows) where you enter terms that relate to
your research topic.
There are pull-down menus where you select the
‘index’ to search. The default is Keyword, but there are many to
choose from, including author, subject, document title, person, word
count, etc.
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In a basic search, there is a single box
where you can enter terms that relate to your research topic. Search
for terms as keywords (in article titles, subjects, abstracts), as
subjects, or as full text (anywhere in article). Example: drunk
driving.
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In a
subject guide search, the term(s) you
enter in the search box are mapped against an online thesaurus and
relevant matches are displayed. If you type the words DUI or DWI or
drunk driving in a subject guide search, you will see that the
preferred term is driving while intoxicated.
Often you will
see subdivisions and related subjects to browse through.
Subdivisions target more specific aspects of a
subject; e.g., case studies, forecasts and trends, prevention,
public opinion, research, social policy, statistics. Related
subjects are classified into broader or narrower terms.
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In a
publication search, you look for
articles from a known publication; e.g., Time or Newsweek. You see
coverage dates and a listing of available issues to browse. You can
also limit a search by publication title(s).
Wildcards: An asterisk (*) stands for any number of
characters, including none, and is especially useful when you want to
find all words that share the same root. A single question mark ?stands
for exactly one character (wom?n to match women or woman) while multiple
question marks stand for an equivalent number of characters. An
exclamation point (!) stands for one or no characters and is especially
useful when you want to match the singular and plural of a word but not
other forms or, when used inside a word, to match certain variant
spellings. For example, colo!r matches both
color (American) and
colour (British).
SEARCH RESULTS: Results are organized into tab groups
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content areas that contain similar types of documents.
There are 4 tabs: Magazines & Journals, Reference, News (from
newspapers and newswires), and Multimedia. Not every tab may contain
items.
VIEW, MARK, PROCESS RESULTS: Your search
results display in reverse publication date order, although they can
be sorted by relevance instead.
The basic bibliographic information, full text
indicator (full-text, full-text with graphics , abstract, citation)
and document type (article, brief article, book review, author
abstract, case note, column, cover story, editorial, interview,
obituary) are listed.. Records display in MLA format. You can mark those articles you want to retain and then
print, e-mail, download
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