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                     INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING EBSCO TO FIND MAGAZINE ARTICLES

These instructions assume you are working from a campus computer, unless otherwise stated, and that you are looking for a specific article in a periodical (such as Scientific American, Astronomy, or Sky&Telescope).

1.  Start with the WCC ORCA website:  http://www.whatcom.ctc.edu/

2.  Highlight "Current Students" and select "Library"

3.  Single mouse-click on "Online Resources"

4.  Single mouse-click on "Ebsco".  If you are working from off-campus, you will then see a log-on screen; for "USER NAME/LOG ON" use "whatcom", and for "PASSWORD" use "college".

5.  On the Ebsco page that opens, make sure that the "Academic Search Elite" box has a check mark, then single mouse-click on the "Continue" tab.

6.  On the page that opens next, with lots of fields to fill in, ignore all the fields and click on the tab near the top of the page called "Publications"

NOTE:  IF YOU ELECT TO USE PROQUEST INSTEAD OF EBSCO (FOR INSTANCE, TO LOCATE ARTICLES IN SKY & TELESCOPE), AGAIN CLICK ON "PUBLICATIONS".  IF WORKING FROM HOME YOU'LL NEED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION
USER NAME/LOG ON:  FB77GB7DSX (use caps)
PASSWORD:  welcome

7.  You should now be looking at a page containing a very long list of publications.   In the "Browse for" fill-in space near the top of the page, enter the name of the publication (for example, Scientific American), and single mouse-click on "Browse".

8.  Single mouse-click on (for example) "Scientific American"

9.  From the list of years that appears, single mouse-click on the year of your article, wait a few seconds, then select the issue/month and look through the contents to find your article. 

Depending on the mood of the publisher, you may or may not have access to pictures and illustrations contained in the hard copy of the article.  If you want to see figures, you may have to use hard copies available in the WCC, WWU, or public libraries.