ICSM 10500: History of Secrets

ICSM 10500: History of Secrets

Article Quick Search

Search Several Databases Simultaneously for Scholarly Articles

Using the Ebrary Database

Search 70,000 ebooks in the ebrary database:
  • Open a book by clicking on the title name or book jacket.
  • Jump to relevant chapters and flip through pages.
  • Highlight, take notes, and create a personal bookshelf to save and organize your research.
  • Copy and paste text, print pages and chapters, or download pages and chapters.
  • Use Preferences in the InfoTools menu to choose a citation style.  Citation information will automatically be included when you copy, paste, print, or download.
  • Manage and share your research by dragging books, highlights, and notes into bookshelf folders, which can be emailed to others in your research group.

Research Tip - Download ebrary ebooks

See this Guide on Downloading ebrary Ebooks (created by the Princeton University Library).  

Download an entire ebook for 14 days. iPad, iPhone, iPod and on Android phones and tablets  require an additional reader app. ebrary recommends Bluefire Reader, which is available from the Apple app store.

Citing Your Sources in APA Style

Cite Tool in Article Quick Search

Here is a screen shot of a citation that has been formatted in APA using the "Cite-Tool" on Article Quick Search


The cite tool does a pretty good job of formatting the record into APA, but  as shown in the screen shot below it's not perfect.
Make Note of Errors
: The title of the article should be in sentence-case.


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Searching Tips

Research Tip - Set Up Alerts, Save Searches

Alerts can keep you up-to-date on your research topic - save your search online and set it up to run regularly.  When new articles that match your search are published, you will receive an email alert.  

EBSCO DATABASES: 
To save a search as an Alert that can be  automatically run, click the Alert link at the top of your search results.
  • The Save Alert Screen  appears. Enter a Name and Description for the Alert. 
  • To receive research alerts, you will need to set up individual accounts in the individual databases.
Creating an account will also allow you to organize your folders, share your folders with others, view others' folders, and access your saved research from anywhere.