Saturday, August 7, 2010

Curtin University Library Search Guides

“Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia -- Charles M. Schulz (American cartoonist, 1922-2000)

Your organization, be it corporate or academic, is probably paying a lot of money for subscriptions to various online resources like Thomson Dialog, LexisNexis, ScienceDirect, EbscoHost, etc. To get the greatest value for their money, they should train the end user in best practice search techniques for each resource they subscribe to. Sadly, they don’t usually do so.

So, the burden falls on you, the end user, to educate yourself. Luckily for you, a number of librarians have stepped up to the plate by creating cheat sheets to get you started. Visit the Curtin University Library (http://library.curtin.edu.au/) site for help on searching a number of the online sources your organization may subscribe to …

Cinahl (EBSCO)
Factiva
Informit Online
Ovid Databases
ProQuest Databases
ScienceDirect
SciFinder
SourceOECD
Source: http://library.curtin.edu.au/study-and-research-tools/online-tutorials/databases/
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Remember … the Desulfurization Blog is not just about desulfurization … it is about how YOU can more effectively search the Web for desulfurization resources.

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