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Tutorials

Welcome to the Library Instructional Service's Tutorial Page! Here you'll find tutorials to assist in your research, tutorials and searching guides for databases supported by the University of Northern Iowa Rod Library, and selected tutorials from other library. If you have any questions about the tutorials you find on this page, please contact the Library Instructional Services Department at (319) 273-3718 or Chris.Neuhaus@uni.edu.

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Database tutorials created by the Rod Library Reference and Instructional Services Department, as well as tutorials and research assistance for UNI databases developed by the database providers:

ATLA Database

Business and Company Resource Center

Contemporary Authors

Fact Sheet

Contemporary Literary Criticism Select

CQ Researcher: Finding research topics
See how to find topics with more than one point of view, find background information, and sources to start a research project.

EBSCO Materials (For databases such as Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, etc...)

Education Full Text: Searching (WilsonWeb database)
See how to combine search phrases in an advanced search and limit a search set to full text articles only. See how to determine which articles are available in Rod Library.

ERIC (EBSCO)

ERIC (EBSCO) Introduction
ERIC (EBSCO) Tutorial
ERIC (EBSCO) Simulation
ERIC (EBSCO) Quiz
ERIC: Searching (EBSCO database)
See how to use ERIC Descriptors to help you get exactly what you want. See truncation in action. See how to limit your search to pull up journal articles only.

Family & Society Studies Worldwide: Searching (Biblioline database)
See how to use the index to identify search terms and modify the search to get exactly what you need. Learn how to find the sources you have identified.

FirstSearch

Gale: The Distant Librarian

Gale RSS Aler

Ingenta: (formerly UnCover)
See how to do a Quick Search and an Advanced Search and ways to narrow a topic.

JSTOR

MLA International Bibliography: Keyword and Subject Searching (EBSCO database).
See a search for information on a title and information on an author. See ways to narrow a search set.

SilverPlatter

SilverPlatter Field Guides

WilsonWeb: Wilson Biographies

The databases above use Boolean Searching. For more information on this topic see the Research Tip on Boolean Searching.

Tutorials

Database Tutorials

Database tutorials created by the Rod Library Reference and Instructional Services Department, as well as tutorials and research assistance for UNI databases developed by the database providers: