What is EBSCOHost?
EBSCOHost houses online research databases with abstracts and full-texts from magazines, academic journals, reference books, images and photographs, serving the information needs of students, working adults, professionals and researchers. The databases are updated on a daily basis.

What are some of the available databases in EBSCOHost?

Academic Search Premier contains full-texts, peer-reviewed titles and cited references from American Journal of Political Science, American Libraries, British Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Literature, International Journal of Psychology, and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, etc. in subject areas such as biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, religion, arts and sociology

Business Source Complete contains peer reviewed business-related journals in marketing, management, accounting, and finance.

CINAHL provides nursing and health journals, health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice etc. Some of the available journals are: the AANA Journal, California Hospitals, Gastroenterology Nursing, Maternal and Child Health Journal, Paediatric Nursing, Parents.

EBSCO Animals provides indexes, abstracts or full-texts on a variety of topics relating to animals.

Novelist contains fiction reviews, recommendations, author read-alikes, biographies, book discussion guides etc.

Searchasaurus is a database designed for children.

How and where can I access EBSCOHost?
EBSCOHost can be accessed via the multimedia stations in NLB libraries. You need to register for a free digital library account and make pre-payment for the account using cashcard before you proceed to use the multimedia service. The service is charged at $0.03 per minute (or $1.80 per hour).

EBSCOHost can also be accessed from your home PC via NLB website. You still need a digital library account before you can log into the eDatabases. Citrix plugin is required.