A collection of tutorials to help you master the art of finding your way around

 

The Navarro College Libraries are committed to making information literacy an integral part of the college’s educational program. With this goal in mind, we have brought together a collection of tutorials to help you master the art of finding articles in the library’s online collections of journals, newspapers, and magazines. The tutorials below will help you learn more about how to make the most effective use of these information resources: EBSCO, GALE, and LexisNexis. Also included are tutorials on the library’s collection of EBSCO eBooks.

 

Search Everything (from the library home page)

• EBSCO Discovery Search

 

Accessing NC Library Services and Resources

• Online Catalog

• Subject Guides

 

Basic Searching

• Basic Searching 1: Brainstorming Your Research Topic

• Basic Searching 2: Searching in a Database

• Basic Searching 3: Refining Your Results

 

Online Tutorials for Searching Individual Databases

Credo Reference

• How to use Credo Reference

 

EBSCO

• Advanced Search – Guided Style

• Advanced Search – Single Find

• Basic Searching

• Reading an Article

• Introduction to EBSCOhost

• My EBSCOhost Folder

• CINAHL with Full Text Basic Searching

• CINAHL with Full Text Advanced Searching

• Literary Reference Center

• Nursing Reference Center

• Points of View Reference Center

• All Ebscohost Database Tutorials

 

EBSCO eBOOKS

• Downloading eBooks on EBSCO – Tutorial

• Searching eBooks on EBSCOhost – Tutorial

 

Gale On-Demand Tutorials

• Literature Resource Center

• Student Resources in Context

 

LexisNexis Academic

• Introduction to LexisNexis Academic

• Power Search Overview

• Edit in Power Search

• Finding News by State

• Find a Specific Document

• Find Broadcast Transcripts

• Finding an Obituary

• Using the Index

• Look up a Legal Case