PsycINFO Advanced Tutorial (EBSCOhost 2.0)
Channel: 1LIONTV
Date: 2012-06-05

Demonstrates advanced search techniques in the PsycINFO database (EBSChost 2.0). Discusses the identification of subject headings either via the item record or the Thesaurus, and how to use these subject headings in subsequent searches.Truncated searching is demonstrated via the use of the asterisk symbol.  Also covers the use of hyperlinks in different fields within the item record so users can quickly perform new searches for all materials by the named author or cited references. Tutorial ends with a brief demonstration of the use of the Indexes tab to gain further search precision.

Originally created by William Badke (Trinity Western University) on June 4, 2012 using Adobe Captivate. The Adobe Captivate project file and original .swf  for this tutorial can be downloaded from the ANTS project repository at the University of Calgary Dspace: https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/48957

This tutorial is licensed to the public using a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.