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The Sir Duncan Rice Library
Medical Library
Reid Library - Rowett Institute
Taylor Library and EDC
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King's Museum

Camtasia Recordings

Camtasia recordings produced by the Library are PowerPoint presentations with audio commentary in .mp4 format. They cover a variety of essential skills for finding and managing academic information.

Click on a link and find out more about information retrieval tools and techniques.

Essential Skills

Introduction and planning a search
Duration: 9 mins 27 secs
Planning Chart (PDF)

Searching Primo to find background reading (books)
Duration: 10 mins 11 secs (9.54 MB)

Quick Guide to finding a book using Primo (PDF)

Searching Primo to find journal articles
Duration: 9 mins 11 secs (9.27 MB)

Quick guide to finding a journal using Primo (PDF)

Searching Primo and e-book collections
Duration: 31 mins 28 secs

Quick Guide to Primo (PDF)
Quick Guide to Ebrary (PDF)

Using Primo to find databases
Duration: 16 mins 18 secs (14.3 MB)

 

Technical issues and summary
Duration: 7 mins 17 secs (6.81 MB)

Guide to remote access (PDF)
Guide to accessing electronic information (PDF)

Searching Databases

Searching e-book databases
Duration: 13 mins 41 secs (12.70 MB) 
Successful searching using databases (Scopus and Web of Knowledge short version) Duration: 23 mins 41 secs (23.9 MB) 
Successful searching using the Web
Duration: 17 mins 40 secs (16.2 MB)
Scopus (Introduction)
Duration: 17 mins 17 secs (18.2 MB) 
Scopus (Advanced)
Duration: 12 mins 26 secs (12.2 MB) 
Web of Knowledge (Introduction)
Duration: 36 mins 11 secs (36.1 MB) 
Web of Knowledge (Advanced)
Duration: 11 mins 29 secs (10.9 MB) 
Pick n'Mix Databases (searching a variety of databases)
Duration: 36 mins 29 secs 

Managing References

Managing References - RefWorks Setting Up an Account and Working with Databases Duration: 5 min 01 Sec (4.78 MB) 
Managing References - RefWorks Part 1
Duration: 20 mins
Quick Guide to RefWorks (PDF)
Managing References - RefWorks Part 2
Duration: 26 mins 40 secs
Attaching files to a record (PDF)

Please let us know if you find these recordings useful. Do you have a suggestion about other library-related topics that you would like us to cover? We welcome your feedback.