Summary: All databases provide help screens and tips on searching on their websites. In addition to Help menus many have downloadable user guides and online tutorials to help you make the best use of the features offered.
University of Aberdeen Library, Special Collections & Museums also produce information to help you make the best use of databases. This page lists links to vodcasts (video-style demos), quick guides to important databases, and worksheets used in our practical library skills workshops. Each worksheet has an example search which clearly shows how to use major features in a specific database.
Vodcasts (video-style demos)
Using BEI (British Education Index)
Using the Scopus Database
Library Guides
ABI/INFORM Complete - Quick Guide
see also ProQuest Advanced Search on ABI/INFORM Complete (for video recorded by ProQuest)
AnthropologyPlus - Quick Guide
Anthrosource - Quick Guide
Art and Architecture Complete - Quick Guide
British Education Index - Quick Guide
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) - Quick Guide
Cochrane Library
Ebrary
HeinOnline - Quick Guide
IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) - Quick Guide
LexisLibrary - Key Features
LexisLibrary - Searching for Case Law
LexisLibrary - Searching for International Legal Journal Articles
LexisLibrary - Searching for UK Journal Articles
LexisLibrary - Searching for Newspaper Articles
Literature Online (LION) - Quick Guide
Medical Library Guide to Finding Information - Quick Guide
Medline and other Ovid databases
ProQuest Advanced Search on ABI/INFORM Complete (by ProQuest on YouTube)
RILM (Abstracts of Music Literature) – Quick Guide
Sociological Abstracts - A Quick Guide
Westlaw UK – Case Law
Westlaw UK – Legislation
Westlaw UK - Quick Guide
Westlaw UK - UK and International Journals
To find out more about the subject coverage and how to search each of these databases (and all the subscription databases made available by the library) do a Find Database search on Primo. Click on the i (information) button available with each record.
Worksheets
Worksheets that guide you through using many of our popular and important electronic databases are available in the Worksheets folder found in the Pages & Files section of this wiki.

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