Tutorials

These Online Tutorials are intended to facilitate your research at IU. Please note that you need a high-speed connection to run them. Tutorials are best viewed at a screen resolution of 1024 x 768

General Research Skills

Connectors and Truncation (3.5 min)
Develop your Search Strategy (4.5 min)
How Do I Know If It's Scholarly?(6 min)
Finding Full Text Articles (4 min)
Google Advanced Searching (4 min)
Off-campus Access to Databases (1.5 min.)
Printing, Emailing, and Saving Citations (2 min)

Finding books
Gabriele Library Online Catalog (5 min)
WorldCat (2.5 min.)

Finding dissertations
Immaculata dissertations (3 min)
Global dissertations (3.5 min)

Interlibrary Loan
Request an interlibrary loan (3.5 min)
Retrieve an interlibrary loan (1 min)

Subject-Specific Databases

Business
Business Source Elite (4 min.)

Education
ERIC basic search (3.5 min.)
ERIC subject searching (3.5 min.)

English
Gale Literature Resource Center (3.5 min.)

Nursing
Abbreviated journal names(2 min.)
CINAHL basic searching (3.5 min.)
CINAHL advanced searching (2 min.)
CINAHL subject headings (3 min.)
Health Source (3.5 min.)
Ovid multi-field search (Compliments of Ovid) (3 min.)
Ovid applying limits (Compliments of Ovid) (3 min.)
Ovid working with results (Compliments of Ovid) (5 min.)
Proquest Nursing Journals (3 min.)
Pubmed (4 min.)

Psychology
Mental Measurements Yearbook (3.5 min.)
PsycInfo (4.5 min)

ACCEL students
Find full text from an article citation (4 min)