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Academic Search Complete Basics (2019)

Academic Search Complete for Users with Mobile Devices

Academic Search Complete - see also EBSCO tutorials

Academic Writer
"Academic Writer is APA's authoritative solution offering you a complete digital environment for teaching, learning, and writing academic papers." - Home page
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Record date: 8/18/2020
Academic Writer Basics
Introduction to APA Academic Writer

Academic Writer Advanced

Access Video Training (from Microsoft)
Algorithmic Literacy (University of Louisville Libraries)
"Explore the impact of unseen algorithms on the online content we see and the ramifications on privacy, discrimination, and political polarization."
Videos on this page:
- Algorithms and Echo Chambers
- Algorithmic Literacy Strategies
APA Formatting and Style Guide (7th Edition) (OWL at Purdue)
This section includes an introduction to APA Style, an APA workshop, APA Formatting and Style Guide (7th Edition) and additional sources, such as a PowerPoint presentation about APA, a sample paper and FAQs.

APA Style Central - see Academic Writer

Analyzing Multiple Discourses

Article Linker FAQ (online guide)
FAQ about UC Article Linker, a service that seamlessly links library resources from the Library Catalog, online databases, and other sources, including Google Scholar.
Articles, finding - See Find Articles
Tips on finding articles if you have a citation or looking for articles in a topic (fro the online guide for graduate students).
See also "How to Access an Article's Full Text"

Call numbers video - see Reading LC Call Numbers

Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition (the OWL at Purdue)
Citing Your Sources (Online Guide)
Cite Your Sources (Video)
Learn why we cite sources and what it means to cite a source properly.

Developing a Research Question

Digital Literacy (online guide)
This guide will help you learn to use information technologies and the Internet to find, evaluate, use, and share information in order to succeed academically and in your future career development.
Digital Materials and Where To Find Them (Online Guide)
Learn how to find various digital formats from blogs to videos in library databases and on the public Web.
Discourse Community Paper
This video tutorial explains how a discourse community paper differs from a position paper. It introduces discourse communities and demonstrates how they use various genres to communicate their aims.

Discourse Community Analysis or Ethnography
This video is designed for English 2089 courses, in which the assignment focuses on a single discourse community. It provides an explanation of the focus of this assignment, tips on finding sources, and suggestions on analyzing the sources you find.

E-Books at UC Libraries (online guide)
Tips on finding and using e-books in UC Libraries' collections as well as at the Cincinnati Public Library and on the internet.
EBSCOhost - Advanced Search: Guided Style (from EBSCOhost)
Online tutorial for searching databases on the EBSCOhost platform (Academic Search Complete, etc.)

EBSCOhost: Citing Articles on EBSCOhost
This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Cite feature available on EBSCOhost, as well as several other EBSCO interfaces.

EBSCOhost: Using Search History in EBSCOhost
This tutorial demonstrates the EBSCOhost Search History feature, including editing a search, saving a search, and editing a saved search.

EndNote: for Users (from Clarivate Analytics)
Tips and links to YouTube training videos.
EndNote Online: Videos and Online Classes (from Clarivate Analytics)
EndNote is a reference management solution with both a desktop and online component. When used online, it may be called “EndNote online.”

Excel for Mac - See Office for Mac Quick Starts

Evaluating Online Sources (online guide)
The goal of this guide is to provide you with methods for evaluating online sources, including how to analyze the reliability and trustworthiness of sources and claims. This guide is mostly focused on non-academic source, though there are some tips for evaluating academic sources found on the web, as well.
Excel Video Training (from Microsoft)

How to Cite and Save Sources
Quick tips on citing and emailing sources found through UC Libraries' Summon and Academic Search Complete. Target audience: ENGL 1001 and 2089 at the University of Cincinnati; content applicable to students in other courses.

How to Find Articles
Tips on finding articles if you have a citation or looking for articles in a topic (from the online guide for graduate students).
How to Get Started with Research
This video gives a quick overview of strategies for getting started with finding sources for your assignment. While the target audience are students is ENGL 1001 or ENGL 2089 courses, the tips apply to research in many other courses.

How to Locate Electronic Article Full Text (UC ArticleLinker Help/FAQ)

ILLiad tutorials

Getting Started with the Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery System (ILLiad)
This tutorial introduces ILLiad, the interlibrary loan and document delivery system for materials not available at UC. It shows how to complete your profile, place document requests, and access electronically delivered items.
The instructions in the tutorial apply to patrons from the Main Campus, UC Blue Ash and UC Clermont.

Using the Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery System (ILLiad) to Request Full Text Articles Not Available at UC
This tutorial shows how to request full text articles not available through UC library subscriptions. The instructions in the tutorial apply to patrons from the Main Campus, UC Blue Ash and UC Clermont.

Using the Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery System (ILLiad) to Request Unavailable Articles Retrieved by Summon
This tutorial shows how to use ILLiad to retrieve the full text of articles found by the Summon search tool but not available at UC. The instructions in the tutorial apply to patrons from the Main Campus, UC Blue Ash and UC Clermont.

The Information Timeline
This video discusses the information timeline and how it can impact available sources based on your information need or topic. After viewing this video, you'll be able to identify different sources, discuss where they fall on the information timeline and how that impacts what types of sources you would choose when you need information.

Introduction to Keywords
Introduces the concept of using keywords to construct a search.

Introduction to UC Libraries

JSTOR Tutorials: Students
Help pages covering a range of topics, from searching to citation management. Some of the pages contain videos.

Jupyter Notebooks - see Teaching with Jupyter Notebooks

LinkedIn Learning
Log in with your 6+2 username and password to access software, career development, and technology training videos from anywhere using an Internet browser.

Mathematica Overviews and Tutorials (Wolfram.com)
MATLAB Courses (from MathWorks)
Hands-on practice sessions and demonstrations
Microsoft 365 Training
MLA Overview (the OWL at Purdue)
This web page covers what MLA Style is, why it is used, and who should apply this style to their work.
MLA Formatting and Style Guide (the OWL at Purdue)
This resource offers examples for the general format of MLA research papers, in-text citations, endnotes/footnotes, and the Works Cited page.

Navigating Databases
An overview of the most common functions of research databases.

NexisUni: 10-Minute Training
Specialized tips from NexisUni on using NexisUni for various types of searches (headlines, works by a journalist, law reviews, etc.)
NexisUni Onboarding Session and Webinars
NexiUni Vimeo channel covers a broad variety of topics, including advanced search, business and company research, legal research, etc.
Nexis Uni Tutorials (playlist)
Brief video tutorials created by LexisNexis Nexis Solutions cover the following topics: How to Search from the Home Page; How to Use the Advanced Search Form; How to Select Sources and Create Permalinks; How to Annotate and Share Documents; How to Use the Citation Tool; Creating Alerts; Creating a Profile; Navigating Your Profile Settings
Microsoft 365 for Mac Quick Starts (from Microsoft)
PDF tutorials on Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote

Outlook for Mac - See Office for Mac Quick Starts

Photoshop (from Adobe Design Center)
A broad range of tutorials. Can be filtered by user type (beginner or experienced).

Plagiarism Video Series

PowerPoint for Mac - See Office for Mac Quick Starts

ProQuest Video Tutorials (YouTube Playlist)
The brief videos from ProQuest cover the following topics: Basic Search, Advanced Search, Publications Search, ProQuest Thesaurus, and Search Results.
ProQuest Ebook Central Video Tutorials (YouTube Playlist)
The brief video tutorials cover the following topics: Overview and Searching; reader; Downloads; Bookshelf.

Reading LC Call Numbers
This video teaches how to read Library of Congress call numbers to help you locate items on the shelf. It was remixed by Laurentian Library staff from the original video created by Douglas College in New Westminster BC.

RefWorks (New RefWorks) Video Tutorials
Video tutorials by ProQuest
RefWorks (New RefWorks) in the Citation Management Guide

Searching Databases
Learn how to conduct successful searches in research databases.

Stay Current (Online Guide)
Learn to use current awareness services, including tables of contents, new books, search, and citation alerts They will help you stay informed when new information is published in your area of interest.
Summon Basics (2019)

Summon: Beyond the Basics (2019)

Summon 2.0 Help and FAQ
An introduction to the library's user-friendly search engines and tips on using it efficiently.
Symbols & Locations: Library Location Codes (PDF)

UC Libraries Website Overview (2020)

Understanding Databases

Use Digital Sources Critically (Online Guide)
Using Information Sources Ethically and Legally (Online Guide)
The purpose of this online guide is to help students understand what constitutes plagiarism and learn how to avoid it.

Web of Science Tutorials
Web of Science video tutorials on YouTube.

Word for Mac - See Office for Mac Quick Starts

Word for Windows Training (from Microsoft)

Zotero - Documentation
"Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself."