Academic Search Premier
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This brief tutorial is meant to acquaint users with the general characteristics of Academic Search Premier (ASP) and its most commonly used features. By the end of the tutorial, you should know:
- Where to find ASP (and other databases)
- What kind of information is available in ASP
- How to use basic search techniques
- How to locate both scholarly and popular sources
- How Article Linker works
So what's in Academic Search Premier (ASP), anyway? ASP is a general interest database - meaning it has material covering a wide variety of subjects and topics - and it is primarily made up of citations to articles, with some book citations also. Links to complete articles appear below many of the citations. ASP includes citations to:
- Articles from popular or general-interest periodicals (magazines and newspapers)
- Articles from academic ("scholarly") journals
- Parts of books and whole books
Many articles and books in ASP may appear "scholarly" in terms of their topics or research. However, it is usually the "peer review" editorial process for journal articles that constitutes the most common definition of what is or isn't "scholarly." We will be going over how to recognize - and limit to - scholarly articles in ASP.
ASP is a general-interest article database, and is useful for research on many topics. Most of the techniques you learn here are meant to be relevant to searching in other EBSCO databases, and in many other vendors' databases as well. If you're ready to begin the tutorial, just click one of the links below:
