How do I sign up for ProQuest?
1. Click on the profile icon and select the Sign into My Research link (located in the upper, right-hand corner of any page in the ProQuest platform) to create an account or sign into an existing account. 3. To create an account, just fill in the required fields: email address, password, and confirm password.
How do I access EBSCOhost for free?
To Access EBSCOhost:
- Go to library’s home page at www.esc.edu/library.
- Click Article Databases.
- Scroll down the alphabetical list and click on EBSCOhost.
- Enter your college login and password.
- That will take you to a page that lists and describes all the EBSCO databases.
Is ProQuest a database?
ProQuest databases provides a single source for scholarly journals, newspapers, reports, working papers, and datasets along with millions of pages of digitized historical primary sources and more than 450,000 ebooks.
Who owns ebsco?
EBSCO Industries
What ebsco stands for?
“EBSCO” is an acronym for Elton B. Stephens Company. EBSCO Publishing merged with EBSCO Information Services on July 1, 2013, with the merged business operating as EBSCO Information Services.
Is ebsco safe?
EBSCO only contains articles from credible and venerable sources, many of which are not available elsewhere. This means that when you run a search on EBSCO, you can rest assured that the information you find is more accurate, current, and reliable than what you would find via a Web search.
Is ScienceDirect a database?
ScienceDirect is a full-text database offering journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and 11,000 books. ScienceDirect uses natural language searching similar to a Google search.
How do you know if a source is scholarly?
The article is most likely scholarly if:
- The source is longer than 10 pages.
- Has a works cited or bibliography.
- It does not attempt to persuade or bias the reader.
- It attempts to persuade or bias the reader, but treats the topic objectively, the information is well-supported, and it includes a works cited or bibliography.
Is ebsco free?
Free Databases. EBSCO provides free research databases covering a variety of subjects for students, researchers and librarians. A complimentary research database for teachers, Teacher Reference Center (TRC) provides indexing and abstracts for more than 230 peer-reviewed journals.
Is ProQuest a search engine?
Search across all ProQuest platform databases with the Basic Search. You can search All source types or choose to limit your search by a source type such as Scholarly Journals, Videos & Audio, Dissertations & Theses, Books and others that are available through the More menu.