Camtasia Recordings

Camtasia recordings produced by the Library are PowerPoint presentations with audio commentary. 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 and e-book collections
Duration: 31 mins 28 secs

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

Searching Databases

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.