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Library Catalogs Movie Title (movie length)
  CRUZCAT: Searching for a Known Journal Title (2:40 min)
UC e-Links: Tutorial (1:16 min)
Search Engines  
 

How Scholarly Search Engines Differ (3:00 min from the UCLA Library)

Article Databases  
  BIOSIS: Advanced Subject Searching (3:28 min from the UC Berkeley Library)
  Beilstein and Gmelin CrossFire Databases (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  PubMed: MeSH Tutorials (From the National Library of Medicine)
  PubMed: Creating Alerts (2:04 min from the UC Berkeley Library)
  PubMed: Searching by Author (3:00 min from the National Library of Medicine)
  Web of Knowledge: Creating Alerts (2:57 min from the UC Berkeley Library)
  Web of Science Search Tips
EndNote  
EndNote Basics X (Online tutuorial from EndNote)
  EndNote Basics 9 (Online tutuorial from EndNote)
  EndNoteWeb (Online tutuorial from EndNote)
Importing Records from a CSA Database: GeoRef (2:30 min.)
  Importing Records from PubMed (2:04 min. From the UC Berkeley Library)
  Importing Citations from Web Of Science into EndNote (1:33 min)
RSS Feeds  
  Subscribing to RSS Feeds Using Bloglines (2:45 min)
  Using Bloglines: Adding a Subscribe Button (1:50 min)
  Web of Knowledge: Creating an RSS Feed (3:02 min. From the UC Berkeley Library)
  Pubmed: Creating an RSS Feed (3:17 min. From the UC Berkeley Library)

 

Contact Ann Hubble (ahubble@ucsc.edu). Updated February 6, 2008.

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