Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is an EBSCOhost database that describes itself as a leading resource for scholarly research. The goal of this database is to support high-level research in the key areas of academic study by providing journals, periodicals, reports, books and more. Academic Search Complete contains thousands of full text peer-reviewed journals, articles, and book that cover a wide range of topics including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
- Overview:
- Search Options: The search options available for this database are to search by all text, author, title, subject terms, abstract or author-supplied abstract, author-supplied keywords, geographic terms, people, reviews & products, company entity, NAICS code or description, DUNS number, ticker symbol, journal name, ISSN, ISBN, and accession number.
- Information on Digitization: EBSCO does not provide much information on their digitization process, only that they provide access to thousands of full text journals.
- Facts:
- Date Range: The database cover material from 1887-present for abstracting and indexing and 1911-present for full text items.
- Publisher: EBSCO Information Services
- Publisher About Page: https://www.ebsco.com/about
- Object Type: PDF Full Text Files of academic journals and articles and HTML Full Text Files of academic journals and articles
- Location of Original Materials: The original materials are held by the respected publishers of the individual journals.
- Exportable Image?: Yes for individual use, but require the copyright holder’s express permission for other uses.
- Facsimile Image?:Yes
- Full Text Searchable?: Yes
- Titles List Links?: Yes
- History/Provenance:
- Original Catalogue?: Yes
- Digitized from Microfilm?: No
- Original Sources?: The original sources are owned by the respected publishers of each journal.
- Reviews:
- Council of Chief Librarians- Electronic Access and Resources Committee Review, March 2014: https://cclibrarians.org/sites/default/files/reviews/Documents/ear_rev_ebsco-upgrades_0314.pdf
- Access: Information about accessing EBSCOhost databases can be found at: https://www.ebsco.com/open-access
- Info from Publisher: https://www.ebsco.com/about
- Citing: https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases/academic-search-complete © 2020 EBSCO Information Services. All rights reserved.
