Essential Tools for Online Searching: AND, OR, and Wildcards
(1:43) Learn how logical operators AND and OR work to help you get good results in library research databases.
(1:55) Learn how to retrieve varying forms of a word and improve search results.
Finding Scholarly Articles on Your Topic
Finding Scholarly Articles on Your Topic
These tutorials include practice in Neumann Library web-based resources and self-quiz questions to help you check your understanding.
- Step 1: Choose a Relevant Research DatabaseLearn how to find subject-specific and other research databases in Databases A-Z and library research guides
- Step 2: Create an Effective First SearchLearn how to choose keywords and how to use logical operators, wildcards, basic limiters, and more
- Step 3: Critically Review and Refine Search ResultsLearn how to identify scholarly articles and to find and use database subject terms, field, and other specialized limiters
(1:55) Learn how to locate full text using Find It @ UHCL, interlibrary loan, or a known article citation.
(3:12) Distinguishes characteristics of scholarly articles/journals from those of popular articles/magazines. Peabody Library, Vanderbilt Univ.
PsycINFO Video Tutorials
(10:11) In this video, you will learn how to improve search results by using official subject terms, "explode" a thesaurus term, narrow exploded results, and use major subject headings.
- In Search of Methodology(2:25) This video uses the PsycNet platform so it looks a bit different from our EBSCO version, but the search principles are basically the same.
- Using the Author Affiliation Field(3:08) How to find information about authors’ affiliations at the time of publication.
