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EBSCO Animals Welcome to the EBSCO Animals Database Information Screen! Browse the topics listed below to find what you are looking for:
---------------------------------------------------------------------About the Database About the DatabaseAbout the Database EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals offers in-depth information on a variety of topics relating to animals. The database consists of indexing, abstracts, and full text records describing the nature and habitat of familiar animals. Within some of the full text, image links are available for the Windows client. Images are accessed by double-clicking any image graphic. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Searching Tips Searching TipsSearching Tips There are a number of helpful tips and hints you can use to improve your search results. For example, you can use Boolean operators to link search terms together; and/or limit the search to a specific animal. Boolean OperatorsSometimes a search can be overly general (results equal too many hits) or overly specific (results equal too few hits). To fine tune your search, you can use AND, OR, and NOT operators to link your search words together. These operators will help you narrow or broaden your search to better express the terms you are looking for and to retrieve the exact information you need quickly. USING THE "AND" OPERATOR: If you have a search term that is too general, you can append several terms together using "AND". By stringing key terms together, you can further define your search and reduce the number of results. Note: Unless you define a specific search field, the result list will contain references where all your search terms are located in either the citation, full display or full text.
USING THE "OR" OPERATOR: In order to broaden a search, you can link terms together by using the "OR" operator. By using "OR" to link your terms together you can find documents on many topics. Linked by this operator, your words are searched simultaneously and independently of each other.
USING THE "NOT" OPERATOR: In order to narrow a search, you can link words together by using the "NOT" operator. This operator will help you to filter out specific topics you do not wish included as part of your search.
Grouping Terms Together Using ParenthesesParentheses also may be used to control a search query. Without parentheses, a search is executed from left to right. Words that you enclose in parentheses are searched first. Why is this important? Parentheses allow you to control and define the way the search will be executed. The left phrase in parentheses is searched first; then based upon those results the second phrase in parentheses is searched. Generalized Search: dog or cat and lion or tiger Focused Search:(dog or cat) and (lion or tiger) In the first example, the search will retrieve everything on dog or cat and lion AS WELL AS everything on tigers whether or not the articles refer to dogs or cats. In the second example, we have used parentheses to control our query to only find articles about dogs or cats that reference lions or tigers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Searchable Fields Searchable FieldsSearchable Fields The default fields for unqualified searches consist of the following: all authors, all subjects, all keywords, all title info (including source title) and all abstracts. The following list will help you locate detailed information referenced in this database as a field. Searchable tag Description Example
AM Searches for the animal which is the AM Tiger
focus of the article
SU Searches the subject heading of the SU Felidae
article
AB Searches the abstract summaries for AB Predator
keywords
AN Locates the article with this uniquely AN 9500100253
assigned number
KI Retrieves only those articles that are KI Animalia
classified with a Kingdom of this type
PH Retrieves only those articles that are PH Chordata
classified with a Phylum of this type
CL Retrieves only those articles that are CL Mammalia
classified with a Class of this type
OD Retrieves only those articles that are OD Carnivora
classified with an Order of this type
FA Retrieves only those articles that are FA Felidae
classified with a Family of this type
GS Retrieves only those articles that are GS Panthera
classified with a Genus & Species of tigris
this type
---------------------------------------------------------------------Definition of Fields Definition of FieldsDefinition of Fields The following table explains the contents of each field in an EBSCO Animals record's detailed display. Field name Description
Animal The animal featured in the article
Kingdom One of the three main taxonomic divisions into
which natural organisms and objects are classified
Phylum A broad category of the animal or plant kingdom
into which organisms are divided
Class A major category in biological taxonomy ranking
above the order and below the phylum or division
Order A category of taxonomic classification ranking
above the family and below the class
Family A group of related plants or animals forming a
category ranking above a genus and below an order
Genus & Species A category of biological classification ranking
between the family and the species, comprising
structurally or phylogenetically related species
or an isolated species exhibiting unusual
differentiation
Geographical locale The area or natural environment the animal inhabits
Abstract A brief summary taken from the article
Subject The article's subject heading
AN Accession number
ISSN International Standard Serial Number
---------------------------------------------------------------------Copyright and Restrictions of Use Copyright and Restrictions of UseCopyright and Restrictions of Use The EBSCO Animals database is made up of indexing, abstracts, and full text. The copyright of the Encyclopedia of Animals is the property of EBSCO Publishing and text may not be copied without the express written permission of EBSCO Publishing except for the print or download capabilities of the retrieval software used to access it. This text is intended solely for the use of the individual user. Copyright 1996 by EBSCO Publishing. All rights reserved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------Where to Send Your Comments Where to Send Your CommentsWhere to Send Your Comments If you have some comments about either the database or the software, we would appreciate hearing from you! Please mail your comments to: EBSCO PublishingP O Box 682 Ipswich, MA 01938 Tel: 800-653-2726 Tel: 978-356-6500 Fax: 978-356-6565 Please submit any questions you have to: http://case.support.epnet.com.
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