User Guides and Tutorials

General User Guides

• uSe Help Guide
• How to do an effective search on CIAP (PDF - 85KB)
• How to access CIAP via the Internet (PDF - 145KB)
• Cochrane Library Quick Reference Guide (PDF - 1.14 MB)
• Cochrane Library Userguide (PDF - 3.38 MB)
• Micromedex User Guide (PDF - 2.63MB)
• Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database (PDF - 1.36MB)
• STAT!Ref User Guide (PDF - 209KB)

Tutorials

The following are recommended by clinicians and librarians:

• Micromedex Tutorial
• NICS Guide to the Cochrane Library
• NICS Where's the Evidence? A guide to finding online evidence to inform clinical decisions
• Indiana University Ovid Database guides
• Duke University Evidence Based Medicine tutorial
• The (US) National Library of Medicine's PubMed tutorial
• McMasters University, Canada CINAHL 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)

OvidSP User Guides

• OvidSP Userguide (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)
• Searching OVID databases: Medline, CINAHL, PsycINFO, Embase (PDF - 241 kb)
• Saving, running & deleting searches in OVID databases (PDF - 77 kb)
• Books@OVID User Guide (PDF - 171 kb)
• OvidSP - Resource Center - access to training materials and online Webex training schedule

OvidSP Tutorials

• Ovid Demonstration
• Select a Database
• Search Page Overview
• Basic Search Overview
• Advanced Search Overview
• Search Fields Overview
• Find Citation Overview
• Search Tools Overview

The CIAP Libraries web pages have some useful tips on searching techniques.

This page was last updated on Friday, 27-Jun-2008 15:15:13 EST