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    As a BPS member, enjoy the benefits of free access to our customised online library of journals, books and other publications via the EBSCO Discovery Service.

    EBSCO Discovery Service

    The key feature of the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) platform is that it provides access to a wide range of trusted research content within a single search experience. 

    As well as offering access to our primary full-text journal databases – including the BPS journals, 32 selected Wiley journals, and 300+ titles in EBSCO's Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection – EDS also searches a wealth of additional sources, including:

    • Leading psychology journal publishers and university presses, including Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, Springer, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press
    • Professional societies
    • Open-access databases
    • Subject and institutional repositories
    • Academic catalogues, including APA PsycArticles, MEDLINE, ERIC, JSTOR and more
    • Other online resources – e-books, biographies, conference proceedings, images, magazines, newspapers, videos, and much more

    You should use the EBSCO Discovery Service when you want to:

    • Conduct an advanced search across the Discovery Service knowledge base
    • Access EBSCO's Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
    • Access EBSCO's vast array of publishers' metadata and open–access material

    Whether you are studying for a qualification, undertaking research or looking to translate theory into practice, peer-reviewed journals provide current, authoritative research in which you can be confident. 

    How do I access the EBSCO Discovery Service?

    Please note: to access EBSCO Discovery Service, you must:

    • Be a member (Professional Affiliate, Student, Associate, Graduate, Full, Chartered)
    • Have registered a member portal account with us
    • Be logged in to the BPS website

    If you cannot see the link above to access the service, please sign in to the BPS website (you may need to refresh the page afterwards).

    Upon accessing the EBSCO Discovery Service platform, you can search and explore anonymously or set up a personal account (MyEBSCO) to bookmark search results and save them in project folders for easy retrieval.  

    Search results are ranked according to relevancy and, where available, deliver immediate access to full-text content directly from the results list.

    How do I access MyEBSCO personal account?

    Signing into your personal account is important as it will enable you to save your preferences, organise your research into folders, retrieve your search history, and much more.

    To create a new MyEBSCO account:

    1. Click MyEBSCO in the top right corner of the page
    2. Select Create an account.

    To reset your MyEBSCO account password:

    1. Click MyEBSCO in the top right corner of the page, then Sign in
    2. On the Sign In screen, click Forgot your password?
    3. In the Email or Username field:
      - If you created a username: Enter the username and click Reset
      - If you used your email address as your username: Enter your email address and click Reset
    4. You will receive an email containing a verification code. Enter the verification code in the field provided and click Reset
    5. Create a new strong password and click Continue
    6. Click the Sign In link to sign into your MyEBSCO folder account

    To allow the creation of a MyEBSCO account and the personalisation features in EBSCO, you will need to grant consent to EBSCO for the use of some of your personal information. 

    You can choose the 'skip for now' button to continue to use the service anonymously.

    However, using the service anonymously means that it will be unable to recognise you next time you access it, that you will not have a MyEBSCO account and that you will be unable to save searches and articles for a later date. 

    You can review EBSCO's privacy policy here. 

    How do I save journals and articles to MyFolder?

    If you haven't already, you'll need to set up a personal MyEBSCO account. 

    Sign in by clicking the 'Sign in to MyEBSCO' button.

    When you return to EBSCO Discovery Service, you will be able to access previous saved searches, bookmark new search results and organise content into folders for future retrieval.

    EBSCO overview tutorial

    This short video demonstrates the features of the EBSCO Discovery Service interface, including how to search for information of interest to you.