1. Introduction to
EBSCOhost Mobile
EBSCOhost iPhone App
support.ebsco.com

2.  Please hold your questions until after each
of the two sections of the webinar. We’ll
announce when we’re taking questions.
 Feel free to use the text chat box to make
comments or communicate with others at
any time.
 All attendee microphones are muted during
the webinar.

3. In this webinar, we will show you how to take
advantage of EBSCOhost mobile.
 The mobile version of EBSCOhost on the
web is available at m.ebscohost.com.
 EBSCO indicates that the mobile version of
EBSCOhost is also available for a variety of
devices such as the iPhone, BlackBerry and
Android-based smartphones.
 In this webinar, we will take a look at the
mobile site and the iPhone app.

4. EBSCOhost
Mobile

5. To Login to Ebsco Mobile
UserID:njebsco
Password: mobile

6. The list of Statewide
EBSCO databases will
appear:
Academic Search Premier
Biography Collection Complete
Business Source Premier
ERIC
GreenFile
History Reference Center
Literary Reference Center
Science Reference Center
NoveList+
NoveList+K-8
Points of View Reference Center
Referencia Latina

7. Under the Search Options, it is
easy to limit or expand your
search results.
You can choose from one of the
available Search Modes and
depending upon the databases
you have chosen, you may see
the ability to limit a search by
Full Text articles, Scholarly
(Peer Reviewed) Journals, or a
particular publication that you
enter in the field provided.

8. Enter your search
term

9. Your result list is displayed. From
the result list, you have the
following options:
 To view an article’s detail
page, click or tap the article
title.
 If available, you can view the
full text of an article by
clicking the HTML Full Text
or PDF Full Text link.
 To further refine your results,
click the Search Options link
below the Find field, apply
additional limiters, and click
Search.

10. From an article detail page, you
can e-mail the article to
yourself, along with any
available full text by clicking or
tapping the E-mail icon near
the top of the page.
To view the full text, click the
HTML or PDF full text icon.

11. HTML view of article.

12. Questions about the
EBSCOhost mobile site?

13. EBSCOhost
for iPhone

14. The EBSCOhost iPhone
app is available through
the App Store. Just search
for “ebscohost.” It’s free.

15. The EBSCOhost iPhone
app has received positive
reviews from iPhone
users. Currently there is
not a version specifically
for iPad, although the
iPhone version can be
used on that platform.

16. This is the EBSCOhost
iPhone app welcome
screen. Note the
instructions on the screen
to configure the app when
using it for the first time.

17. After getting your key,
touch “Try EBSCOhost as
a guest” to log in. You will
be asked to login to the
service one time only and
your login will be saved for
future uses. You will use
the key that you were
emailed in this process.

18. The first screen you will
see after logging in will
show your recent searches
as well as saved search
and article links.

19. To start a new search, just
type your search terms in
the Search field. Here we
will search for articles on
New Jersey by typing in
“new jersey.”

20. Your results will be listed
on the next screen. Here
there are 105 articles
found. Note the PDF icon
for full text results.

21. Tapping one of the results
leads you to this screen,
which shows you an
abstract for the article. It
also has buttons you can
use to save the article,
read the PDF on your
phone and email the
article.

22. The full text PDF, shown
here, is fully scalable on
the iPhone.

23. Downloading a full text
article PDF to your iPhone
is quick and easy.

24. The Settings screen allows
you to fine tune your
results. Here I have
elected to search just for
articles available in Full
Text.

25. You can get to your most
recent searches by going
to the Recent screen. You
can then tap on the line to
bring up the results of that
search.

26. Questions about the
EBSCOhost iPhone app?

27. In this webinar, we have shown you how to
take advantage of EBSCOhost mobile.
 The mobile version of EBSCOhost on
the web is available at
m.ebscohost.com.
 The mobile version of EBSCOhost is
also available for a variety of devices
such as the iPhone, BlackBerry and
Android-based smartphones.
 You now know how to navigate the
mobile site and use the iPhone app.

28. Thanks!
David Lisa
dlisa@njstatelib.org
about.me/davidlisa
Scherelene Schatz
sschatz@njstatelib.org
about.me/schereleneschatz