Online tutorials and database guides - R to Z
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RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (CSA):
- General CSA FAQs
- General CSA Search tips
- General CSA Support Center
RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (EBSCO) - see EBSCOhost tutorials
RISM Online (EBSCO) - see EBSCOhost tutorials
Safari Books Online:
- Online Help
- Training materials are available from the ProQuest Training Materials web site, such as:
SAI Global - Standards Australia - Online Help
ScienceDirect (Elsevier):
- Using ScienceDirect to its full capacity
- Online help
- Printable Guides:
- Quick Start Guide in several languages including Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and Thai
- ScienceDirect Help files (PDF, English only
- Interactive Tutorials in several languages including, French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian and Japanese
Scopus:
- Online Help
- SCOPUS help
- About SCOPUS, 'Enrich Your Experience'
- Printable Guides:
- SCOPUS Training Material including User Guides in Bulgarian, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Korean, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portugese, Romanian, Russian and Spanish
- User Guide in English (PDF)
- Using Scopus for Bibliometric Analysis: A Practical Guide (PDF)
- Video Tutorials:
- SCOPUS Tutorials has links to Flash tutorials such as Performing a Basic Search (also in Japanese and Simplified Chinese)
- Flash menu of all tutorials (in English)
- FAQ
SciFinder (web version) - tutorials and how-to-guides
Smithsonian Global Sounds:
- General online help - hardware/software compatibility, buffering, streaming, listening, etc
- Searching help:
Sociological Abstracts (CSA) - Quick Search and Advanced Searching
SourceOECD - user guides
SpringerLink (MetaPress) - SpringerLink User Guides , FAQ and Webinars
TaxPoint - Printable Guides - Tax and Accounting Online: Quick Guide (PDF)
University of Chicago Press Journals - Online Help
Web of Science (ISI):
- Training
- Online Help
- Web of Science Training Opportunities
- Printable Guides: Support & Training Materials includes a workbook (in PDF or Word format) and a number of Quick Reference cards, in many different languages, including the Quick Reference Card in English (PDF)
- Video Tutorials:
- Web of Science Tutorial (not a video, but is interactive)
- Recorded Training has a number of different training videos in many different languages (including English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Korean) such as:
Wiley Interscience Journals:
- Library Toolkit has links to User Guides, Training Resources
- Printable User Guide in English (PDF) - also available in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Korean and Japanese
- Wiley InterScience Tutorials has links to lots of tutorials such as Searching Wiley InterScience; How to Search (in Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
Wilson Art Index (Ovid) - Ovid Support Centre with online tutorials
World Bank e-Library - Online Help
World Development Indicators (WDI) - Frequently Aked Questions and Online Help
World Who's Who - Online Help