Academic Search Premier

The Academic Search Premier (Ebsco) periodical database is available to TCC students through the Internet. Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,500 magazines and journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles, covering a wide range of academic disciplines. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred titles.

From the Library's home page, login to Athens (directions available at the TCC Portal), and then click on the Academic Search Premier link. At the EbscoHost search page, click again on the Academic Search Premier link.

In the search box, type one or more important words that describe your topic and either leave the search field as it is (the search engine will search in all fields), or open the drop down menu to choose a specific field, such as “Abstract.”   A good tactic is to type your primary subject in the first box, e.g, “Asian Americans” and type your secondary subject(s) in the next boxes, e.g., “education.”

Before you click the search button, take a look at the box labeled: Refine Search. You may wish to limit the results of your search to "full text" articles (complete articles stored on-line).  Depending upon the parameters of your assignment you may also want to limit the results to "scholarly (peer reviewed)" journals.

Here is a standard Academic Search Premier citation, including the title of the article, the author, the title of the magazine or journal in which the article appears, the date, volume and issue and page numbers, and the approximate length of the article.  An article identification number is in parentheses.

If, immediately below the citation, you see the words HTML Full Text or PDF Full Text, the full article is stored on-line within the database.  Click on the link to read the article. You will see icons for emailing or printing the article at the top of the page.

If the article is labeled Linked Full Text, clicking may bring you to a “login” type screen.  If this happens, use the back button in the database to return to your list of results and then click on the same link a second time—this should bring you to a page containing the article.  Because linked full text is outside the database, you will not have an email icon, but you should be able to save the file and then email it to yourself as an attachment.

Articles that are NOT stored on-line (you will not see the words full-text) may be available in print or in one of TCC's other databases. To find out if a magazine or journal is available in another database or in the Library’s print collection, go to the TCC Periodical List.

 _{Last updated February 13, 2008}