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Research Skills Guide: Online database tutorials

Overview

This page contains links to video tutorials that cover both basic & advanced search techniques for the major Library subscription databases.

The Library offers free training sessions to all staff. All sessions are fully customisable.

Please send us an email to request a training session.

Ovid Searching

Includes:

Medline
Embase
Emcare
PsycInfo
Ovid Journals

These videos may not work using the version of Chrome we have on WA Health workstations. If you have any trouble, try Microsoft Edge.

Special Techniques in Medline on Ovid
Learn more about searching using the NLM’s Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), floating subheadings, and implementing specific limits such as clinical queries, MEDLINE, Publication types and Limits.

PubMed search

Mostly text-based, but with some video tutorials

MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) tutorial

ProQuest search

Includes:

ABI/INFORM Collection‎ (1971 - current)
Coronavirus Research Database
Nursing & Allied Health Premium
Public Health Database
Publicly Available Content Database

ProQuest search tips (web page) Covers the use of special charaters, Boolean operators and the use of truncation and wild card functions

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