Library Tutorials

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Subject Resources
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How To

Binghamton Real to Reel: Finals Week (YouTube)
Learn how to find a book for your research paper and hear how students use the Libraries.

Finding Articles (YouTube) | Finding Articles (pdf) | Find an Article From a Citation
A screencast tutorial on how to find articles in the database Academic Search Complete.

Finding Books (YouTube) | Finding Books (pdf) | Tutorial Script
How to find books using the library catalog.

GetIt@BU (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
This tutorial will show you how to use the GetIt@BU button to obtain articles.

How to Find a Database (YouTube)
This short tutorial demonstrates the three different ways to access databases from the Libraries' Homepage.

How to Find Primary Resources
How to find various types of primary sources using resources available at the Binghamton University Libraries.

Renew Books Online (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
Tutorial on how to renew books online in the Libraries' catalog .

Why Use Library Resources? (YouTube)
This brief tutorial demonstrates the importance of using library resources for your research.

Citation Help

RefWorks 2.0: Using One Line/Cite View Method (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
Learn how to use RefWorks 2.0 to create in-text citations and to automatically generate a bibliography using the One line-Cite view method.

Inserting Citations and Creating Bibliographies with Write-N-Cite
How to use the Write-N-Cite plug-in to create in-text citations and to automatically generate a bibliography in RefWorks.

Other RefWorks tutorials
See RefWorks 2.0 tutorials and PDFs available from RefWorks.

Books

Finding Books (YouTube) | Finding Books (pdf)
How to find books using the library catalog.

Locating A Book on the Shelf
See how to find a book using the Library of Congress system at Binghamton University Libraries.

Renew Books Online (YouTube)
Tutorial on how to renew books online in the Libraries' catalog.

Newspapers & Current Events

Opposing Viewpoints in Context (YouTube)
Find information on all sides of selected social issues and current hot topics using Opposing Viewpoints in Context.

Science
This eight-minute video teaches users how to access online Science Magazine content, browse articles, research the site, find daily Science news, and more.

Wall Street Journal (YouTube)
Learn how to access Wall Street Journal articles using the Factiva database.

Subject Resources

GeoRef (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
A brief tutorial on how to search GeoRef, a database primarily for the geosciences.

Social Services Abstracts (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
A tutorial on how to use Social Services Abstracts to locate articles.

Social Work Abstracts Tutorial (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
A tutorial on how to use Social Work Abstracts to locate articles.

Statistical Insight | Tutorial Script
Basic tutorial on how to use the LexisNexis Statistical Insight database.

See also Economics and Finance & Management

Finance & Management

Company Information in Business & Company Resource Center (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
This is a short tutorial on how to find company information in the Business & Company Resource Center database.

Factiva (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
How to find company information in the Factiva database.

Industry Information in Business & Company Resource Center (YouTube) | Industry Information (pdf) | Tutorial Script
Find industry information using the Business & Company Resource Center database.

How to Find Company Information in Business Source Complete (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
Find company information using the Business Source Complete database.

How to Find Industry Information in Business Source Complete (YouTube) | Industry Information (pdf) | Tutorial Script
This is a short tutorial on how to find company information in the Business Source Complete database.

How to Use International Financial Statistics Online (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
This is a short tutorial on how to use the International Financial Statistics Online database.

How to Use MRI Plus (YouTube) Tutorial Script
This is a short tutorial describing how to use the marketing database MRI Plus (also called MRI+).

How to Use Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage Database (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
This is a short tutorial on how to use the Standard & Poor\'s NetAdvantage database.

Wall Street Journal (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
How to access the Wall Street Journal via the Factiva database.

Economics

How to Search the Bureau of Economic Analysis (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
This is a short tutorial on how to use the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) website.

How to Use EconLit (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
Using the EconLit database to find economic information.

National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
How to find NBER Working Papers using infoLINK and the NBER Working Papers databases.

How to Use ThomsonOne.com (YouTube) | Tutorial Script
This is a short tutorial on how to use the ThomsonOne.com database.