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Database Tutorials

READY TO SEARCH? Go right to the Lesley Library Databases

DATABASE TUTORIALS & HELP SCREENS

Many of these tutorials are excellent resources. However, they may show details that are not identical to the specific Lesley databases.
For example, they do not discuss our "Check for Full-Text" links.

1. Art Museum Image Gallery (Wilson) Tutorial

2. Bridgeman Education Images – Using the Site

3. Digital Dissertations & Lesley University Dissertations (Proquest) Tutorial

4. Ebrary Education ebooks – Video tutorials linked from opening screen

5. EBSCO
(Academic Search Premier, ERIC, PsycINFO, Mental Measurements Yearbook, SocINDEX)

• Advanced Search
• Visual Search
• Personalize with myEBSCO

Note: EBSCO tutorials are general and do not include special features of subject-specific databases.
They are based on Academic Search Premier.

6. EndNote Web - Video tutorials

7. Ethnic Newswatch Search Tips

8. Global Performing Arts Database(GloPAD) Tutorial

9. JSTOR

• Basic Search
• Browse by Academic Discipline and Journal Title

10. Netlibrary Ebooks – videos & handouts on HELP screen under “Demos & Quick Starts” (in box on right of screen)

11. ProQuest Education Journals Quick Refererence Guide

12. Project Muse tutorial (from UMass Boston)

13. Social Science Citation Index (ISI Web of Knowledge) Tutorial

14. Sociological Abstracts (CSA Illumina) Tutorial

15. Virtual Reference Set (Gale) Search Tips

SEARCHPATH LIBRARY TUTORIAL Start here to review the basics of database searching. Module 4 guides you through a live database search.