Access information on how to use many of our databases by selecting from this list of vendor-supplied tip sheets and multimedia tutorials.

• Business Source Premier - Business Searching: Basic Searching and Browsing for market research, country, and company reports. (2.5 minutes, Flash)
• Business Source Premier - EBSCOhost Advanced Search Guided Style (3-box) for articles. (4 minutes, Flash)
• Business Source Premier - Visual Search visualizes subject clusters. 2.2 minutes, Flash)
• Business Source Premier - My EBSCO Personalization Folder for saving searches and results to work with later. (3.45 minutes, flash)
• Business Source Premier - How to Create Search & Journal Alerts to receive updates via e-mail or RSS. (3 minutes, Flash)
• Business & Company Resource Center Search Tips quick guide to using BCRC (pdf, 76 kb)
• Business & Company Resource Center Navigation Guide 8 page detailed guide with screenshots (pdf, 321 kb)
• Emerald Fulltext Demonstration Tour of Emerald Insight (about 5 minutes, Flash)
• LexisNexis Academic: Overview, Selecting Sources, and Working with Results Use pulldown menu at top right to select desired tutorial.
• ProQuest Quick Reference Guide: Getting Started for ABI/Inform and National Newspapers (pdf, 573 kb)
• Thomson Gale PowerSearch Guided Tour (10 minutes, Flash)

• CSA Illumina Tutorials available in 5 languages. (10 minutes, Flash)
• CSA Illumina Quick Reference Card available in 10 languages. (pdf, 266 kb - 2.7 mb)
• Engineering Village Quick Search Help for Compendex and Inspec (pdf, 565 kb)
• Searching Compendex on Engineering Village Disregard the slides on logging in. They do not apply to Rensselaer’s Hartford Campus. (PowerPoint 2.9 mb)
• Using RSS and Blog this! on Engineering Village (PowerPoint 1.6 mb)
• Faceted Searching and Browsing on Engineering Village (PowerPoint 935 kb)
• Inspec on Engineering Village (PowerPoint 250 kb)
• Enginering Village Brochure (pdf, 6.7 mb)
• Compendex Data Spec Sheet (pdf, 318 kb)
• Inspec Data Spec Sheet (pdf, 275 kb)
• Emerald Fulltext Demonstration Tour of Emerald Insight (about 5 minutes, Flash)
• IEEE Xplore User Guide (pdf, downloadable by chapter or the entire manual)
• Knovel Sample Book
• Explore Knovel Features Free area to try the interactive features found in Knovel electronic books.
• Science Direct User Guides and Tutorials Flash tutorials and pdf documents available in multiple languages.