Prince George's Community College

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Largo, Maryland 20774

Using Online Databases
Module 4

Searching Expanded Academic ASAP Plus

Expanded Academic Index ASAP Plus is a subscription database that covers all academic disciplines, and provides coverage from thousands of journals, magazine, and newswires with selected full text articles. To access InfoTrac, start at Library Media Center homepage and click on the Online Databases link or go to the Online Databases page from the Library's Web site.

On each page of Expanded Academic ASAP, you will find search options for Subject guide, Relevance search, Keyword search, and Advanced search.

Start with the subject approach if you are not sure of how to narrow your topic

• Search the Subject guide to browse a list of subjects, people, products, and organizations that contains word(s) entered.
• Select Subject guide to find articles on your topic. For example: What is the relationship between United States intelligence operations and counter terrorism? Enter terrorism in the search box and click Search.

  Narrow using subdivision by clicking on the link Narrow or clicking link to See also related subjects or View.

• Scroll down and click on the arrow to go to the next page. Locate the heading U.S. War on Terrorism, 2001- and click on the See link to War on Terrorism, 2001-.

  

• To narrow this subheading further, click on the link to Narrow by subdivision or See also related subjects.

• Go to the subdivision United States and click on the View to retrieve the articles. To return to the previous page click on the blue arrow.

  Now that you have an understanding of what subjects to use, you can do a Keyword search and an Advanced search.