How do I access EBSCOhost from home and how do I search for articles and eBooks
Learn how to access EBSCOhost
Answer
EBSCO has journal, magazine, and newspaper articles and eBooks.
Kish students and staff should access library resources at the Library's website.
- Go to the section "Looking for library resources."
- Access EBSCO directly using the "list of online databases" which is an A-Z list of databases. You can choose individual EBSCO databases from the A-Z database list such as Academic Search Complete, Business Source Elite, GreenFILE, CINAHL, Health Source Nursing Academic, etc.
- If you go to the E section of the A-Z Database Guide, you can select to search all of the EBSCO databases at one time by linking to the "EBSCOhost Combined Search of All EBSCO Databases."
- If you are off campus or not authenticated, you will be prompted to log in with your Kish credentials on a Kish College Login Screen. Type your full Kish email address as your username, then enter your Kish password. If you get a generic password box where you can login using Google, scroll down within that box and click on "Access Through your Institution" and select Kishwaukee College.
You can enter search terms into EBSCOhost and some results will appear on the screen. The Refine Results section will appear on the left side of the screen. Here you can select only to view Scholarly Journals (peer-reviewed); full-text articles, and limit the results by publication dates.
If you see a source that interests you, click on its title and you’ll be taken to a more detailed record of the source. Notice on the left that you can download the full text of the article in pdf format, or view the table of contents if it’s an ebook. On the right side of the screen, a Tool Box will appear. In this toolbox, you can email articles and ebooks to yourself and the Cite feature works well if you need to cite the article in APA or MLA format.