Patron Help Sheets and Training Resources

EBSCO Databases

• ALL EBSCO Training Resources

• Introduction - Quick Introduction to EBSCOHost. (Flash | Powerpoint)
• Trainer Guides - Trainer guides are available for librarians on a wide range of topics EG. Medline (WORD DOC | Powerpoint).
• Searching - Introduction to Basic Searching (Flash | Powerpoint), Advanced Search - Single Find Tutorial (Flash | Powerpoint), and Advanced Search - Guided Style Tutorial (Flash | Powerpoint).
• Personal My EBSCOHost Account - Create a My EBSCOHost account and check-out the tutorials (Powerpoint). Create personal folders in My EBSCOHost Account. Delete a single item from your personal account.
• Persistent Links - Email or save persistent links to articles or  save persistent links to your searches or your search folder.
• Journal Alerts - How to create search & journal alerts. (Flash | Powerpoint)
• RSS Alerts - Set-up RSS Search alerts from within EBSCO. And add RSS to an existing EBSCO alert.
• EBSCOHost Help Sheets - Colourful Help Sheets with step-by-step instructions are available on a variety of topics.
• EBSCOHost User Guide Help Sheet (WORD DOC) - Basic Searching, Advanced & Visual Searching, Result List, Article Details, Additional Features.
• EBSCOHost Advanced Search Help Sheet (WORD DOC) - EBSCOhost 2.0 Advanced Search Help Sheet: Guided-Style Fields.
• My EBSCOHost Help Sheets (WORD DOC) - Account Help, Folder Help, Custom Folders Help, Share a Folder Help and Preferences Saving Help.
• EBSCOHost User Guide Help Sheet (WORD DOC) - User guide to Print, E-Mail, Save, Export and Cite your Search Results.
• CINAHL with Full Text Searching - Basic Searching (Flash | Powerpoint) and Advanced Searching (Flash | Powerpoint).
• CINAHL Search Tutorials - How to Search CINAHL in EBSCO: Step-byStep Instructions (PDF) updated by Jeanette Foreman (Northern Health Authority). Original Search CINAHL in EBSCO: Step-by-Step Instructions (PDF) created by Brooke Ballantyne-Scott (Fraser Health Authority). CINAHL Search Tutorials (Trinity Western University) created by Duncan Dixon at TWU (available in Flash, PDF & HTML).

OVID Databases

• ALL OVID Training Resources

• Introduction Help Sheet (PDF) - General Help Sheet on OvidSP Overview Facts.
• Searching Help Sheets (PDF) - Best Practices in OvidSP Basic Searching, Understanding Basic Search, and Understanding Search Tools Mode.
• Search Demos - Adobe "Captivate" online search demonstrations available for Search Page Overview, Basic Search, Advanced Search, Search Fields Overview and Multi-Field Search Overview.
• Search Results Demos - Adobe "Captivate" online search demonstrations available for Working with Results and Applying Limits to Search Results.
• Personal Accounts - Adobe "Captivate" online demonstration of Personal Accounts and Workplace Customization.
• Citations - Demonstration of Find Citation Overview (Adobe Captivate | Powerpoint) and Find Citing Articles (Powerpoint).
• MEDLINE (OvidSP) Tutorials (University of British Columbia) - Learn to search MEDLINE including using Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), Keyword Searching and Combining & Limiting Searches. Created by Jeremy Buhler at UBC.