EBSCOhost App: Overview

Download the EBSCOhost mobile app to access EBSCO databases on your iPhone and Android devices. 

EBSCO databases provide full-text access to journals, such as Harvard Business Review. Examples include:

How to Download

  1. While in any EBSCO database, such as Business Source Complete, scroll down to the footer and select iPhone and Android apps
  2. Enter your Stanford email and the download instructions will be emailed to you
  3. After you have downloaded the app, go to Settings to select the database you would like to access. For example, select Business Source Complete for business journals or EconLit for economics journals.

The user authentication for the app will stay valid for nine months. After that, please follow the steps above to download the app again.

Mobile App Functionality

  • Search multiple databases
  • Limit results to full-text or peer-reviewed
  • Sort by relevance or date
  • Retrieve full-text results in HTML and/or PDF format
  • Save results for offline access later
  • Email results
  • Automatically save the 25 most recent searches
  • View Cover Flow display of results