Database Guides & Tips
Guides are instructions or tutorials to searching a database. Many of the databases have extensive and easy-to-use help sections. Most of our guides came from the database help or have been created by the database publisher. Guides by our Librarians will be noted.
Tips are small details that help you search more effectively.
Updated: 22 July 2008
EBSCOHost - same interface for over 30 databases - look for the logo
Video Tutorial: FLASH
PowerPoint Instructions: In Spanish - In Portuguese
PDF Handouts:
JSTOR
Video Tutorial - FLASH - WINDOWS MEDIA
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When searching in any EBSCO database, make sure to "and" terms that you don't want kept together.
For example:
| marketing and soccer gets 108 results in this database | marketing soccer got zero results in this database search search |
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