This page has a menu of videos and online tutorials covering accessing and using library resources.
Students: use the links below to build up your knowledge and information skills
Teaching staff: point students to this page or add links or embed videos of choice in Vision.
Literature searching for SoSS subjects
Online tutorials
Literature searching for SoSS subjects
Videos
How your library team can help (Edinburgh Campus)
What’s available from the Library?
Finding library resources via the Information Services web pages (demo)
Finding library resources from outside the Information Services web pages (demo)
Finding resources from off-campus
Discovery-demo-finding known items
Discovery – finding ebooks off-campus
Discovery - finding journal articles off campus
Introduction to building a search strategy
Using truncation and wildcards
Applying limits to your search
Demo of building a topic search in Discovery (generic)
Demo of building a topic search in Discovery (business psychology)
Demo of building a topic search in Discovery (psychology)
Demo of building a topic search in Discovery (Finance: exchange rate forecasting)
Demo of building a topic search in Discovery (Finance: efficient market theory)
Beyond Discovery (specialist databases)
Business Source Premier demo (business specific search features)
Web of Science demo (cited reference search features)
PsycINFO demo (psychology specific search features)
ScienceDirect demo (related articles feature)
Getting the full text via library links
Google Scholar and demo
LibKey Nomad and demo
If we don’t have the full text
Citing and Referencing guide and Cite Them Right Online resource
Citing and referencing APA (psychology)
Citing and referencing Harvard
Key contacts: Dubai and Malaysia
Workshops and online materials on digital, information and study skills to inspire your learning.
Teaching staff : you can add the links on this page or embed any of the Stream videos in Canvas. Use the share>embed feature in Stream to get an embed code.
Teaching staff: you can embed online Sway tutorials in Canvas as below. Use the share>get embed code in Sway.