Online Tutorials
These instructional videos cover many different topics relating to research and many are less than 2 minutes long.
Welcome to the Libraries
Welcome to Dal Libraries Video
Sexton Library Tour
Welcome to the Kellogg Library
UGME Welcome Video
Library Services for Faculty
Copyright compliance in Brightspace
RIM Library Services
Quick tips for using Dal Libraries
Registering your DalCard as your library card
How do you know if an assignment is a research assignment?
Renewing books
How to read a call number in 90 seconds
How to find databases on the Libraries' website
Finding books at Dalhousie
Finding subject-specific information at Dalhousie
Remote access
Subject-specific tutorials
Open Access
Email alerting for biomedical sciences
Evidence Based Practice
1: Clinical questions
2: Search strategy
3: Searching PubMed
4: Clinical queries in PubMed
5: Cochrane Library
Nursing information sources
Social Work
What is a database?
Searching a social work database
Find an article from a citation
Finding dissertations
Finding government documents
Finding media sources
Health Sciences
Truncation
Proximity searching
Search Translation
Data
Part 1: Accessing SDA@CHASS & downloading data
Part 2: Using SDA@CHASS to view data
Portage's DMP (Data Management Plan) Assistant
Archives
Basic searching in the Archives
Using the online clipboard in the Archives
History
What are primary sources?
Finding primary sources
Academic Integrity tutorials (closed captioned)
Academic Integrity: APA Style
Academic Integrity: MLA Style
Academic Integrity: Vancouver Style
Finding books
Novanet - new interface
Finding print books in Novanet
Finding ebooks in Novanet
Placing holds in Novanet
Renewing books
Finding books outside of Nova Scotia
Novanet Classic
Basic Search
Advanced Search
Finding eBooks
How to read a call number (a little more in-depth)
How to print, save, or export your Novanet search results
Finding articles
Finding articles in Novanet
Finding journals
Citation Linker
Get it @ Dal
Scientific journal literature
Never pay for an article in JSTOR!
Database tutorials
CINAHL (Part 1)
CINAHL (Part 2)
Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source (DOSS)
EBSCO Database
Embase
Google Scholar
Google Searching
PubMed Searching
ProQuest Databases
Web of Science
Tutorials from Thomson Reuters
Cited Reference Search
Journal Citation Reports
Citing & Writing
Anatomy of an APA citation
Formatting your paper in APA
Paraphrasing
Writing a research paper
Part 1
Part 2
RefWorks
Introduction to RefWorks
Creating in-text citations with RefWorks
Importing PubMed records
Exporting from RefWorks to Excel