Navigating the EBSCO Foreign Journal Database

EBSCO is a group company specializing in the distribution of print journals, electronic journal publications, and electronic literature database publishing. It represents over 260,000 print journals, more than 50 full-text journal databases, over 50 abstract databases, and nearly 10,000 electronic journals (of which nearly 8,000 can be searched for abstracts or full text and can connect to the full text). Our library subscribes to the EBSCO foreign journal database, which includes ASP and BSP.

Comprehensive Subject Database (Academic Search Premier, abbreviated as ASP): includes 8025 journals related to business, economics, information technology, humanities, social sciences, communication, education, arts, literature, medicine, general science, etc., among which over 4500 are full-text journals (some dating back to 1975), with up to 3630 peer-reviewed full-text journals. Data is updated daily.

Business Resources Database (Business Source Premier, abbreviated as BSP): includes over 4600 journals in international business, economics, business management, finance, accounting, labor relations, banking, etc., including 388 core journals indexed in SCI and SSCI. Notable journals include Business Week, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and country reports from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). Full text is available from as early as 1990.

1.Accessing the Platform

Visit the library homepage (https://libx.czu.cn), find the “EBSCO Foreign Journal” database from the list of foreign electronic resources, click to enter the platform, and then select either the ASP or BSP database. (See the image below)

2.Select ASP or BSP Database

3.Search Methods

①Chinese Interface: The “EBSCO Database” is a foreign language database. After entering the ASP or BSP database, there is a “languages” icon in the upper right corner of the page. Drop down this icon to select “Simplified Chinese” to change the search terms to the corresponding Chinese to facilitate readers’ searches; however, the search terms entered during the search process cannot be in Chinese but must be in English. (See the image below)

②Enter “Basic Search (New Search) Search Interface

Step 1: After entering the “EBSCO Database”, select the database you want to search, such as ASP or BSP, and click to enter the search interface, the default search interface is “New Search”.

Step 2: In the search item, select the content to search, enter the relevant search terms, and click “search” to see the search results.

Step 3: After entering the search results page, open the search content. Click on the title to view the article’s title, author, author’s affiliation, abstract, document type, source, keywords, journal, and publication information, etc.

Step 4: Click the full text icon to open the full text for reading, and click the save icon to download the full text or save the viewed content.

③Enter the “Advanced Search” Search Interface

Click the “Advanced Search” link on the page to directly enter the cross-database advanced search interface.