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Videos and Tutorials

   

New! Ebrary Academic Complete

Ebrary quickstart video. Ebrary Academic Complete is a growing e-book collection spanning all academic subject areas.

Ebrary Quickstart User Guide

Ebrary Searching Tips

Sign up for online training - Faculty, students, staff, or anyone interested in learning more about ebrary products are welcome to attend.

Library Services

 
Adding Articles Using Permalinks in Blackboard

Adding Films On Demand Videos in Blackboard    See also - PDF quick guide

Creating Films On Demand playlist and adding to BlackBoard

Course Reserve Procedures - How to make a request to place an item on reserve for your course.

EBSCO eBook Search

How to access eBooks from our online catalog.

How to find journal publication information in EBSCOhost and ProQuest databases - for example, publication type, peer reviewed, and more.

Interlibrary Loan Requests - Using ILL Express Request via EBSCOhost databases.

Renew your interlibrary loan materials

Placing and removing holds from the online library catalog - How to place and remove a hold using the online library catalog

Renewing Library Materials Online - How to renew your borrowed library materials online using the 'My Account' feature in our online catalog.

 

INSPIRE Testing and Education Reference Center

How to access free test preparation, career, and scholarship information from INSPIRE.net.

 

Business Searching Interface

Business Searching Interface (BSI)
How to conduct a basic search and browse in BSI: Research economic or country analyses, investigate market trends or potential, and find current competitive information or landscape analysis information. (4 min)

 

Nursing and Allied Health Sciences

CINAHL Search Basics

Evidence Based Practice Filter Search: CINAHL
How to combine EBP filter search with CINAHL heading. (2:51)

ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source

PubMed Clinical Queries Filters

Searching for Systematic Reviews - Cochrane Library Using evidence-based practice search filters in the Cochrane Library database (1:33)

Searching for Systematic Reviews: EBSCO CINAHL EBSCO CINAHL for Cochrane Library Citations. (1:39)

Searching for Systematic Reviews: EBSCO Medline Searching Medline for systematic reviews. (1:24)

 

Search Tips from EBSCOhost Databases

Introduction to EBSCOhost
Overview of the EBSCOhost searching interface including search modes, article and image preview, result list, and more. (7 min)

Basic Search
How to conduct a search from the Basic Search screen of EBSCOhost. (3 min)

My EBSCOhost personal folder
How to set up use your personal folder. Accounts are simple to set up, and can be created by any user accessing EBSCOhost. (4 min)

EBSCOhost Result List
Explore the features of the EBSCOhost result list, including refining your results with limiters and subject clusters. (6 min)

Reading an Article
How to use the features in the EBSCOhost Detailed Record of an article. (3 min)

Advanced Search with Guided Style
How to conduct an Advanced Search using the Guided Style Find fields as well as applying limiters and expanders. (3 min)

Advanced Search with Single Find Field
How to conduct a search from the Advanced Search screen of EBSCOhost using the Single Find field style as well as applying limiters and expanders. (3 min)

Creating a Journal Alert
How to create journal alerts and set up set up automatic e-mail notification in EBSCOhost. (3 min)

Creating a Search Alert
How to create search alerts and set up set up automatic e-mail notification in EBSCOhost. (2 min)

Page Composer
Ebscohost web page creation tool to organize and share your search results. (4 min)

Visual Search
How to use the Visual Search interface, Columns and Blocks result list styles, sorting options, and save articles to a personal folder. (5 min)

 

CINAHL (from EBSCOhost)

CINAHL Plus with Full Text Basic Searching
A basic searching tutorial, includes how to access Evidence-Based Care Sheets, Quick Lessons, and Continuing Education Modules. (4 min)

CINAHL Plus with Full Text Advanced Searching
Advanced searching tutorial, featuring how to make the most of the CINAHL Headings, as well as how to access Evidence-Based Care Sheets, Quick Lessons, and Continuing Education Modules. (5 min)

Using CINAHL and MeSH Headings
Subject Headings help you retrieve more relevant results. This tutorial will show you how to search using the CINAHL Headings feature. The functionality demonstrated is identical to that when searching MeSH headings in the MEDLINE databases. (6 min)