How-to Movies

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Web of Knowledge Databases (Web of Science, BIOSIS, CAB Abstracts, Inspec, Zoological Record) PubMed ProQuest Databases (Agricola, Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, GeoRef, PAIS) EndNote RefWorks Finding full text (UC-eLinks) Alerts and RSS Feeds Bioinformatics/Structure Databases

Article Databases

Web of Knowledge Databases:

• Search tips for BIOSIS Previews [Thomson-Reuters] (6 min)
• Importing Records from Web of Knowledge Databases to RefWorks
  (3 min)
  (BIOSIS, Web of Science, Zoological Record, CAB Abstracts, Inspec)
• Web of Knowledge: Creating Citation Alerts [Thomson-Reuters] (4 min)

PubMed:

• Searching PubMed by Author (from NLM, 2 min)
• Searching PubMed by Author and Subject (from NLM, 1 min)
• Searching PubMed by Subject (from NLM, 1 min)
• Searching PubMed by Journal (from NLM, 5 min)
• MeSH Tutorials (from NLM)
• PubMed: Saving Searches and Creating Alerts (from NLM, 3 min)
• EndNote: Importing Records from PubMed (2 min)
• RefWorks: Importing Records from PubMed (2 min)

ProQuest Databases:

• Introduction to Using ProQuest Databases (3 min)
  (Agricola, Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, GeoRef, PAIS)
• Importing Records from ProQuest Databases to RefWorks (3 min)
  (Agricola, Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, GeoRef, PAIS)

EndNote & RefWorks

EndNote:

• EndNote: Importing Records from PubMed (2 min)

RefWorks:

• Creating Bibliographies in RefWorks (from RefWorks, 2 min)
• Importing Records from Web of Knowledge Databases to RefWorks
  (3 min)
  (BIOSIS, Web of Science, Zoological Record, CAB Abstracts, Inspec)
• Importing Records from PubMed to RefWorks (2 min)

Alerts and RSS Feeds

• Using Google Reader (3.5 min)
• PubMed: Saving Searches and Creating Alerts (from NLM, 3 min)
• Web of Knowledge: Creating Citation Alerts [Thomson-Reuters] (4 min)

UC-eLinks

• Getting Articles Using UC-eLinks (4 min)
• Using UC-eLinks with PubMed (2 min)
• Using UC-eLinks with Google Scholar (2 min)

Bioinformatics/Structure Databases

• BIOBASE Knowledge Library Tutorial [BIOBASE on YouTube]
• PubChem Instruction [12 videos, from the UC Berkeley Chemistry Library]

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