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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.

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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)

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