User Guides and Tutorials

General User Guides

• About CIAP (Powerpoint Slideshow - 4 MB)
• About CIAP - Overview of CIAP Resources (PDF - 3.47MB)
• About CIAP - Handout of Overview of CIAP Resources (PDF - 1 MB)
• CIAP - Guide to Locating Medication Information
• Converting Saved Searches from OVID CINAHL into Ebsco CINAHL (PDF - 98 KB)
• uSe Help Guide
• Searching CIAP (PDF - 85KB)
• Accessing Information on CIAP (PDF - 145KB)
• Cochrane Library Quick Reference Guide (PDF - 1.14 MB)
• Cochrane Library User Guide (PDF - 3.38 MB)
• Micromedex User Guide (PDF - 2.63MB)
• Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database (PDF - 1.36MB)
• STAT!Ref User Guide (PDF - 209KB)
• Mosby's Nursing Consult Training (PPT - 4 MB)

OVID User Guides

• OvidSP User Guide (PDF - 1065 kb)
• OvidSP Demonstration - flash tutorial on Ovid website
• OvidSP Best Practice in Basic Search (PDF - 61 kb)
• OvidSP FAQs (PDF - 64 kb)
• Find Citing Articles in OvidSP (PowerPoint - 777 kb)
• Find Citation (PowerPoint - 765 kb)
• Find Similar on OvidSP (PowerPoint - 710 kb)
• OvidSP User Guide: Basic Search in OvidSP Databases (Embase, Medline, Maternity & Infant Care, PsycINFO) (PDF - 241 kb)
• Saving, Running & Deleting Searches in OVID databases (PDF - 77 kb)
• OvidSP User Guide: Books @ OVID (PDF - 171 kb)
• OvidSP - Resource Center - access to training materials and online Webex training schedule

General Tutorials

The following are recommended by clinicians and librarians:

• Micromedex Tutorial
• NICS Guide to the Cochrane Library
• Duke University Evidence Based Medicine tutorial
• The (US) National Library of Medicine's PubMed tutorial
• Introduction to OvidSP (Yale University)
• Formulating your Question (Yale University)
• How to do a Comprehensive Search (Yale University)
• Combining and Limiting Searches (Yale University)
• Working with Your Search Results (Yale University)

CINAHL on EbscoHOST 2.0

• EBSCO CINAHL Advanced Searching Flash Tutorial on the Ebsco Website
• EBSCO CINAHL Basic Searching - Flash Flash Tutorial on the Ebsco Website
• CINAHL Basic and Advanced Searching (Powerpoint - 540 kb)
• Basic CINAHL Plus with Full Text Basic Searching (Powerpoint - 452 kb)
• CINAHL Plus with Full Text Advanced Searching (Powerpoint - 771 kb)
• Searching CINAHL on EbscoHOST (PDF - 82 KB)
• CINAHL Interactive Tutorials Flash Tutorials (Flinders University)

• The CIAP Frequently Asked Questions
• About the Training Program