EBSCOhost MAS Ultra – School Edition
www.rbhsmediacenter.org Username: redbud Password: library
EBSCOhost databases are aggregate databases. That means EBSCO is “the middle man” in a business deal. EBSCO buys subscriptions to hundreds of other sources, indexes all those articles and sources for easy searching, and then sells the subscription package to schools, colleges, and public libraries.
Creating a citation for an EBSCO MAS Ultra School Edition source requires you to know what the source is, but you begin by creating a citation for a database.
Creating a Citation in MAS Ultra – School Edition
Work with two windows open – one to your article in EBSCO and one to your list for this project in NoodleTools.
1. In EBSCO: The MAS Ultra School Edition database has made it easier for you to identify what kind of source you are citing. They now have the appropriate icon to the left of each article.
Periodical = magazine News = newspaper Academic journal = journal
2. In NoodleTools, create a citation for a Database.
3. Click on the appropriate source. Most common: magazine and newspaper.
4. Remember that MAS Ultra is made up of several databases. The first five results could come from five different databases. The database is named at the end of each description in the source list and at the end of the citation information at the beginning of each article once you click on the title in the results list.
5. Your RBHS instructors do not require Accession Numbers, Database URL’s, or DOI’s
6. Fill in appropriate information about the author and source. Do not include page numbers unless you are citing the .pdf version with page numbers.
7. Click Submit.
Creating a Notecard in Mas Ultra – School Edition
Even if you won’t be making notecards right away, after you create your source card, keep your source open and create one notecard with a title and the URL (Permalink) for that source. Later, you will be able to access your source from that notecard in NoodleTools without opening EBSCO’s MAS Ultra.
1. On your NoodleTools Bibliography/Works Cited Page, click on NEW in the Notecards column for the citation you just generated.
2. In your NoodleTools Notecard, fill in the Title of your notecard (your teacher calls that a heading). You MUST fill in the Title to be able to generate even a partial notecard.
3. In your article, click on the Permalink icon in the right column and copy that long, long URL.
4. Paste that Permalink URL in the URL box of your NoodleTools notecard.