Video Tutorials 

General:

• MIT Libraries
• Searching the MIT Library Collections: print and electronic
• Database Search Tips
• Accessing Items
• Citation Management Tools
• Workshops

Specialized topics:

• BioInformatics Tutorials Series (BITS)
• GIS How to...
• Patents
• Scholarly Publication and Copyright

• Using Barton, the MIT Libraries catalog (4:45)

• Using Barton, the MIT Libraries catalog: Part 2, the Advanced Search mode (2:41)

• Renew books and manage your borrowed materials with Your Account (2:19)

• Request a book that is checked out (1:16)

• Have a book delivered from the Library Storage Annex or other MIT Libraries (2:05)

• Find items your Professor set aside for a specific course (3:58)

• LibX Toolbar: Searching for books (3:45)

• Locating materials in the MIT Libraries (3:25)

Library Databases vs. Google (4:32)

Choosing an appropriate article database for your topic (2:05)

LibX Toolbar: Searching for articles (3:48)

Database Search Tips

Part 1: Keyword Searching (3:03)
Part 2: Using Boolean Operators (4:04)
Part 3: Truncation (1:42)
Part 4: Subject Headings (4:36)
Part 5: Searching Fields and Applying Limits (3:53)

Specific Database Guides

• Compendex and Inspec (3:04): two engineering literature databases
• Knovel: engineering and scientific handbooks
• PubMed (4:00): biomedical and life sciences journal literature
• PubMed - My NCBI (4:39): save searches and citations, get email alerts and more
• Mapping business locations from ReferenceUSA using ArcMap (3:08)
• Web of Science (3:01): a general database covering most subject areas. Strong in the sciences.
  • Tracking a citation using Web of Science (5:14)

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