Tutorials

This tutorial will teach you how to become familiar with EBSCO’s search platform format for conducting research.

This tutorial will guide you in using EBSCO’s most complete and wide-ranging subject databases, highlighting its various features and options.

This tutorial is more subject-specific covering subjects and articles relating to the Business field.

This tutorial covers newspaper resources with articles focusing primarily on Native Americans, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and other ethnicities.

Global Newsstream database enables users to search the most recent global news content – with archives that stretch back into the 1980s – from over 2,800 news sources, including newspapers, newswires, news journals, transcripts, video, and digital-first content in full-text format.

This tutorial shows how to access and conduct searches on the ProQuest platform, which features research materials from magazines, newspapers, and scholarly, peer-reviewed journals.

Gale Power Search enables researchers to search many individual subject databases or conduct a broader search by selecting them all at once. This tutorial illustrates how to do different kinds of searches and how to navigate the Gale platform.

CINAHL is a comprehensive nursing/medical database hosted by EBSCO.

The Nursing Resource Center has EBSCO as the primary search platform. It offers subject tabs such as Diseases & Conditions, Skills & Procedures, Drug Information, Patient Education, Practice Resources, and Continuing Education for more specific information. Also, the home page has sections for Key Features and Nursing News.

Medline Plus is a database within PubMed that contains information in the Biomedical and Health Sciences field and offers many tools to aid the researcher.

This tutorial explains the new options available on this premier health sciences database and how to get the maximum results in conducting medical research.

This tutorial features the most extensive dictionary in the English language. Searching a word will provide the definition and history of the word’s usage.

This humorous video explains what plagiarism is and how to avoid dishonesty in using other’s resources in your research.

Citing Sources: Why & How to Do It

This video explains when, how and why to use citations in research papers to give credit to someone for their intellectual property. There is also an illustration of how to create a citation.

The video explains how to use certain practices or avoiding pitfalls in learning how to paraphrase resource material.

The video goes step-by-step in illustrating the ease of creating citations and a bibliography on Microsoft Word. This is a great time saving shortcut.

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