We librarians are always available to help . . . when we’re here. But, what about when we’re not?? And, you need help searching a database??
Should you:
a) Weep with abandon, mourning our absence?
b) Eat a cookie?
c) View our new search guides?
The answer is C! (And B . . . always B, if you get right down to it.)
The librarians have created video search guides for several databases (ATLA, CINAHL, Health Source, PsycInfo, PubMed, and Web of Science). These guides are available at the same place where you go to find our databases (Search for an Article link on the library homepage). Next to many of the databases is an icon that reads, “Search Guide,” with a question mark in front of it. Many of these are text pages of help instructions, but the new search guides go one step beyond.
Click on the Search Guide link for any of the databases above to go to a self-paced video search guide. (See the choices for Web of Science as an example.) Several have Basic and Advanced Guides to choose from. On top of it all, you can choose to see only the part of the guide that’s most useful to you, if you’d like, since each one is separated into sections.
So, go ahead, learn something new on your own terms (AND eat a cookie).
