Database Tutorials
Tutorials are available on the following subject areas:
- Animal, land and sports sciences
- Built and natural environments
- Business, management and economics
- Creative Arts
- Education
- Health and social care
- Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
- Law
- Technology.
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Animal, land and sports sciences
- CAB Abstracts Tutorial for Landbased Subjects
The best database for agriculture, animal sciences and rural development. Also good for tourism - ScienceDirect Tutorial - Animal and Land Sciences
ScienceDirect is a full text electronic journals service, giving online access to over 1000 journals - SPORTDiscus Database Tutorial for Sports Scientists
SPORTDiscus is a database covering all aspects of sport, fitness, recreation and related fields. This tutorial takes you through both simple and more advanced searches of the database
Built and natural environments
Architecture and Planning tutorials
- ASSIA and BHI Tutorial for Town and Country Planning Information
Search for planning information using ASSIA (Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts) and BHI (British Humanities Index) - Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals Tutorial
Learn how to search for relevant information using Avery - Internet Architecture.
Use this Intute Virtual Training Suite to learn how to search the Internet for key resources - Planex Tutorial
- Urbadoc Tutorial
Construction tutorials
- FAME (Financial Management Made Easy) Tutorial for FBE students
Find UK and Irish company information using the FAME database - ICONDA Tutorial
Learn how to search ICONDA for key construction information
Geography and Environment tutorials
- Environmental Management Tutorial
Search the Environmental Management database for full text legislation, guidelines and codes of practice - Using Geobase Tutorial
Search Geobase for information on geography, geology and ecology - Internet Geographer.
Use this Intute Virtual Training Suite to learn how to search the Internet for key resources - CAB Abstracts Tutorial for Geography Students
Learn how to search CAB for agriculture, environmental management and leisure information - Planex Tutorial
Housing tutorials
- ASSIA and BHI Tutorial for Housing Information
Search for housing information using ASSIA (Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts) and BHI (British Humanities Index) - Planex Tutorial
- Urbadoc Tutorial
Real Estate and Property Management tutorials
- FAME (Financial Management Made Easy) Tutorial for FBE students
Find UK and Irish company information using the FAME database - Planex Tutorial
- Urbadoc Tutorial
Touris.m and Leisure tutorials
- CAB Abstracts Tutorial for Tourism Students
Learn how to search CAB for tourism and leisure information - Planex Tutorial
- Urbadoc Tutorial
Transport tutorials
- Transport Tutorial
Learn how to search the Transport database for relevant information - Planex Tutorial
- Urbadoc Tutorial
Business, management and economics
- Business Manager.
A detailed tutorial designed for HE students to help you to use the Internet effectively to find key, high quality resources for business and management - How to Evaluate Your Search Result for Business Students
As you identify relevant web sites for your studies it is important that you evaluate them to assess their quality. This tutorial looks at ways to judge the quality of the Internet resources that you find. The Intute: Internet for Business and Management tutorial has a section called ‘Judge’ which will take you through 3 key questions to consider while evaluating internet websites. - Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier gives access to the full text of over 3,000 journals covering all aspects of business and management. It also give references to articles from about 350 more journals. This tutorial gives an introduction to searching for articles on a particular topic - Business Source Premier advanced
- CAB
Learn how to search CAB for tourism and leisure information - EconLit Tutorial
- FAME for BBS students - an Introductory Tutorial
This tutorial covers how to find detailed financial information on an individual company, and how to compare their performance against their competitors - FAME - becoming an expert searcher
This tutorial shows how to search the FAME database of company information in a variety of ways. It follows on from the tutorial Introduction to FAME for BBS students - International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) Tutorial
- ScienceDirect tutorials.
A series of interactive tutorials on:
Creative Arts
The Internet for:
- Art and design
- Arts and Crafts
- Fashion and beauty
- History and Philosophy of Science
- Media and Communication
- Performing Arts
- Philosopher
- Women's Studies
Education
- Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts for Education Students (ASSIA)
- British Education Index and other Education Databases Tutorial
Search British Education Index (BREI), Australian Education Index (AEI) or American Index (ERIC) databases individually - Internet for Education
Health and social care
The Internet for:
- nursing, midwifery and health visiting
- allied health
- the social worker
- social research methods
- social policy
- social statistics.
How to find journal articles using the following databases:
- AgeInfo
- AMED
('Allied and Complementary Medicine' via Ebsco) - BNI
('British Nursing Index' via Ebsco) - CINAHL.
('Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature' via Ebsco) - ChildData
- CommunityWISE
- Medline (via Ebsco)
- Social Care Online
- SportDiscus (via Ebsco)
Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
- MLA bibliography
Modern Languages Association database - Nexis UK Tutorial for finding newspaper articles
How to find newspapers using LexisNexis - The Internet for Social Research Methods
- Internet for English
- Internet for Historians
- Internet for Philosophy
- Internet Sociologist
- Internet for Women's Studies
Law
- An introduction to legal literature
- Databases
- Internet for Lawyers
- LexisNexis Butterworths Tutorial for Beginners
An Introduction to LexisNexis Butterworths for beginners covering basic searching of UK cases, legislation and journal articles - LexisNexis Butterworths Tutorial for all Jurisdictions - Advanced Searching
This unit introduces advanced searching or "Power Search" techniques in Lexis Nexis Butterworths and use of the source directory for searching non UK/non US materials - Searching Westlaw UK
Search Westlaw UK for case citations, case history, legal journals and legislation - Halsbury's Laws of England
Learn how to start your legal research project using Halsbury's Laws of England
