Guides to specific databases

Guides to using the databases from the vendors and from EPIC staff.

Guides created by EPIC staff

Downloadable one-page visual guides to the following products available as PDF or PowerPoint.

You can use these as handouts to complement introductory or product-based training/coaching sessions. Staff with solid online search skills could use them to get started without additional training.

This material is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-commercial (BY-NC) New Zealand Licence.

This license means you can use and adapt these resources for your own use. Any new resources you create must acknowledge EPIC and must be non-commercial. You do not have to re-license your new works on the same terms.

Vendor Guides

Please note that some of these files are large and require adequate broadband.

EBSCO

EBSCO Support Tutorials
Note the Introduction to EBSCOhost 2.0, Basic searching, How to create search alerts.

Encyclopaedia Britannica Online

Full training handouts, including exercises, for Encyclopaedia Britannica products:

Britannica Online Library Edition (PDF 1.2MB)

Britannica Online School Edition (PDF 2.4MB)

Gale Cengage

A wide range of guided tours (webcasts), navigation guides and tip sheets including a RDS Business Suite tour.
Gale Cengage training support

Oxford Online

The Librarian Resources Centre includes PowerPoint presentations on the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Art Online and Oxford Music Online.
Oxford Online training resources

ProQuest

PowerPoint presentation demonstrating the ProQuest search features (PPT 2.7MB)

ProQuest training tutorials

There are no specific training tutorials on ProQuest Science Journals, but the ‘Basic & smart searching, Building searches & refining’ can be useful.

Page last updated: 2 August 2010.