Self-Paced Instruction and Tutorials

The following are self-paced instruction and tutorials for use by libraries and information schools worldwide in the teaching of effective and efficient information access, search and retrieval. These resources have been developed as an educational effort by the member organizations of NFAIS.

Access Innovations

• Taxonomies in Search
• Leveraging the Taxonomy - Self paced presentation reviewing taxonomy definitions and metadata integration, with 15 sample use case

American Psychological Association

• Tutorials - Tutorials, most closed-captioned, demonstrating search techniques on all major vendor platforms
• Presentation Archive - PowerPoint presentations from conference and webinar training sessions

CAS - A Division of the American Chemical Society

• SciFinder - Tutorials (recorded WebEx sessions and learning modulees) to learn about research topics, and structure and reaction searching
• STN Interactive Tutorial - Conduct a Basic Bibliographic Search
• STN Interactive Tutorial - Conduct a Bibliographic Search Using Multiple Terms
• STN Interactive Tutorial - Introduction to the STN Structure Drawing Tools
• STN Interactive Tutorial - Conduct an EXACT and a FAMILY Structure Search

EBSCO Publishing

• Tutorials - A repository of Adobe Flash tutorials (with audio) for end-users and library administrators, covering topics from EBSCOhost Basic Searching through how to set up a profile in EBSCOadmin. Most tutorials are from three to four minutes in length.

Elsevier

• Scopus

ERIC

• Tutorials - ERIC provides brief animated tutorials to help searchers take advantage of the many features offered on the ERIC web site. ERIC is continuing to develop tutorials on a variety of help topics
• Author Search - Brief tutorials on searching for authors in the ERIC database: Author Search Using Full Name; Author Search Using Last Name; Author Search for Multiple Authors.
• Citation Management - Brief tutorial on using and saving citations in ERIC
• Descriptor Searching - Brief tutorials on Combining Descriptors; Finding the Right Descriptor; Keyword vs. Descriptor Search
• Field Code Search - Defines field code and how to use them in searching ERIC
• Full Text Searching - Tutorials describing availability of full text in ERIC: Is full text available from ERIC? And Other Sources for Full Text
• Advanced Search Features - Tutorials on the following strategies: Phrase Search; Truncating Terms in a Search; Using a Wildcard in a Search.
• Results Management - How to refine and manage your results: My ERIC; Removing Terms from a Refined Search; Search Results; Using RSS Feeds in ERIC

NIH/National Library of Medicine

• Pubmed Online Training
• NLM Catalog
• NLM Classification
• NLM Gateway
• NLM Toxicology Tutorials
• UMLS Tutorials
• Medline Plus
• Using Medical Subject Headings in Cataloging
• Fundamentals of the NLM Classification
• Online Indexing Training Module
• WISER Tutorial
• Basic Searching of the Hazardous Substances Data Bank
• Quick Tour of NLM's Environmental Health and Toxicology Resources
• PubMed Central Tutorials
• NCBI Training & Tutorials

ProQuest

• ABI/INFORM and ProQuest Business Databases - 5-6 minute tutorials on searching, results management, and creating RSS feeds with self testing. (Also in German.)
• Dow Jones Factiva
• Functions - Creating a RSS feed and creating a Search Widget on the Illumina Platform
• Know UK - 8 minute tutorials, including a "test your learning" section, on quick and advanced search, Life Events, browsing, and Local Information.
• ProQuest Medical Databases - 5-6 minute tutorials on searching, results management, and creating RSS feeds with self testing. (Also in Spanish.)

Thomson Reuters - Web of Knowledge

• New Features
• Cited Reference Searching - Cited Reference Searching in the Web of Science
• Citation Reporting and the H Index - How to create citation reports
• Web of Science Search Tips - Search tips for the Web of Science in the Web of Knowledge
• Citation Sources - Web of Knowledge citation sources: Web of Science; BIOSIS Citation Index; Chinese Science Citation Database
• EndNote X5 Basics - Download tutorials by topic in M4V (download and play on iPad; multiple languages available), MP4, and WMV formats
• EndNote X4 Basics - View and download tutorials in Windows Media Player or MP4 formats.
• EndNote X3 Basics - View and download tutorials in Windows Media Player or MP4 formats.
• EndNote X2 Basics - View and download tutorials in Windows Media Player or MP4 formats.
• Reference Manager 12: What's New -View a video about what's new in Reference Manager 12. Window Media Player
• Reference Manager 12: Basics - View video tutorials to learn to use Reference Manager 12
• Reference Manager 12: Basics - Download tutorials on how to use Reference Manager 12. Available in Windows Media Player and iTunes (MP4) formats
• Reference Manager 11 - View video tutorials to learn to use Reference Manager 11.

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