Library Instruction

Online Tutorials

Information Gateway

The following tutorials require Flash Player. Download Flash Player.

Database Tutorials

• Library Research Databases: What Are They and Why Should You Use Them?
• Searching JSTOR: Using Basic and Advanced Search Features and Refining Search Results
• Searching EBSCO Databases: Conducting an Advanced Search
• Searching the Historical New York Times
• CQ Researcher: Researching Controversial Topics and News Issues
• CREDO Reference: The Electronic Reference Collection
• CINAHL for Nursing Research

Journals

• Locating Full Text Articles Using SFX
• Locating Articles in Full Text: HTML or PDF
• Scholarly Versus Popular: How Do We Decide?

Information Evaluation

• Evaluating Websites for Research: Selecting the Best from the Rest

Interlibrary Loan

• Register in Illiad (first-time users)
• Login to ILLiad (Registered Users)
• Using ILLiad to Request a Journal Article or Book
• Viewing and Modifying Requests in ILLiad

Course Reserves

• Access course reserves

Miscellaneous

• Accessing Databases from Off-Campus
• My Accounts
• RefWorks tutorials
• Atomic Learning

Blackboard

These Flash movies are animated tutorials that will show you how to use Blackboard's features and how to perform certain tasks in Blackboard.  The tutorials require Flash Player.  Download Flash Player.

• Accessing and Logging into Blackboard
• My Course Tab

Other Blackboard tutorials available on the Faculty Technology Center website.

I-Share

• Searching a Topic
• Limiting a search
• Search by Title
• Search for Author
• Search for Journal
• Emailing and Printing Records
• Borrowing items through I-share
• Using " My Accounts" in I-share