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FAQs

Can I use EBSCO for free? ›

EBSCO provides free research databases covering a variety of subjects for students, researchers and librarians.

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.

EBSCOhost Introduction

Currently enrolled students have free access both on campus and off campus.

A list of Open Access CINAHL journals for you to publish your manuscript in. All articles published in Open Access journals have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download.

If you require a broader range of subjects or interdisciplinary resources, EBSCOhost might be the better option. However, if you have specialized research interests within specific fields or need access to news sources alongside academic content – ProQuest could be more suitable.

Open-Source: PostgreSQL is a free and open-source database system. ACID Compliance: Postgres supports ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability), ensuring data consistency and integrity. Extensible: PostgreSQL supports custom extensions and functions, making it highly customizable.

Google Scholar is a free full-text search engine like Google, but focuses on scholarly content like journals, books, and dissertations. You can also expand the search to include patents. The resources you find in Google Scholar may be paywalled, but the searching itself is free.

EBSCO (EBSCOhost) is not one database, but is a platform of different databases. To access EBSCO databases, click the link for the library's A-Z Database List from the library homepage. You can also search many of the EBSCO databases simultaneously.

The price of APA PsycInfo varies depending on whether you are an individual searching from your home or office or an institution providing access to the database to many people. You can get unlimited access by subscribing to a database package or get daily access from a nominal fee.

Is the Embase database free? ›

What is Embase? Online version of Index Medicus produced by the US National Library of Medicine (NLM). Freely available on the Internet.

There is no subscription for the PubMed database. PubMed is freely accessible, but it is a literature citation database rather than a full-text provider. It contains citation information (title, authors, journal, and publication date) and abstracts of articles published in biomedical and scientific journals.

EBSCO offers users the ability to establish free, personalized accounts, known as My EBSCOhost.

Go to the Request an Account page on EBSCO Connect. Click Find your Institution to locate the institution with which you are associated. Note: If you are unable to find your institution using this feature, check the box and enter the name of your institution manually. Select your role at your institution.

We are committed to quality open access research and providing the best scholarly content available.

EBSCOhost serves both new and experienced researchers with a variety of features to refine search results.