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| Subject Content | All subjects. |
| Date Coverage | 1920-. |
| Type of Material Covered | Covers approximately 45,000 + non-fiction books for grade levels 1 to 12. |
| Full-text | Can limit to full text and also search within the full text of the articles. Provides many HTML full text chapters. |
| Refereed Journal Filter | No. |
| Remote Access | Available to Boise State University students, staff, and faculty after entering BroncoWeb userid and password |
| Help Pages | Within the database, click the HELP tab in the upper right corner. |
| Boolean | AND, OR, and NOT; for additional information on Boolean operators, see HELP pages. |
| Truncation Symbol | The wildcard is represented by a question mark ?. To use the wildcard, enter your search terms and replace each unknown character with a ? EBSCOhost finds all citations of that word with the ?replaced by a letter. For example, type ne?t to find all citations containing neat, nest or next. EBSCOhost does not find net because the wildcard replaces a single character. Truncation is represented by an asterisk (*). To use truncation, enter the root of a search term and replace the ending with an *. EBSCOhost finds all forms of that word. |
| Other Search Options | Also offers limits for articles with images by category: photos of people, natural science photos, photos of places, historical photos, maps, and flags. |
| Alerts | To store items added to the folder for a future session, Sign In to My EBSCOhost. One Step Alerts. Users can now create an Alert directly from the Result List, Search History, or the Publication list. Create instant RSS feed Alerts by clicking on the orange RSS Feed icons . |
| Special Notes | Can limit by Lexile reading levels. Also offers limits for articles with images. Offers a translation feature for Spanish, French, German and Portuguese. |
| List of Journals | |
| Related Indexes | Book Index with Reviews (All Subjects) Book Review Digest (All Subjects) / Books in Print. |
| Reference Assistance | Phone, email, chat, and in-person reference services are available; link to http://library.boisestate.edu/reference.shtm for further information. CJ 08/30/07 |
