Search tips' and 'training information' should be available on the database or on the database hosts website. General advice on choosing search terms and combining search terms is available. Special search methods are available on some databases including citation searching . Most references you find will be to articles in journals, and sometimes other sources such as books, patents or theses. Check the references you find on the library catalogue to see if we have the items you want, and where they are.
Help is available on how to use the catalogue and how to understand references .
Some databases are now providing links from the references on the database to the full-text of electronic journals where we have online access. If references are not held by the any branch or available electronically you may need to investigate the Inter-Library Loan service .