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• Research Guides link to databases and other resources for each subject area

Database search guides ...

• BIOSIS: Quick Reference Card
  Online Access
• How to Search CAB Direct
  Online Access | CAB International Abstracts, Global Health
• How to search EBSCOHOST Health Databases
  Online Access | CINAHL, PsycInfo
• How to search OVID Evidence-Based Medicine Reviews Databases
  Online Access | Cochrane, DARE, ACP Journal Club
• How to search OvidSP health databases
  Online Access | EMBASE, MEDLINE
• How to search OvidSP for Forestry and Agricultural Sciences
  Online Access
• How to search PubMed
  Online Access
• Web of Science Quick Reference Guide
  Online Access

Search Strategy Guides ...

• Article Indexes & Databases worksheet
• Evaluating Internet Resources
• Glossary of Subject Searching
• Google cheat sheet
• PICO: Evidence-Based Practice Clinical Question/Search Plan Worksheet
• Searching Flow Chart
• Searching Flow Chart Step by Step
• Truncation & Wildcard Symbols

Saving a Search as an Alert (Email or RSS)

• EBSCO databases
• Engineering Village databases
• JSTOR databases
• OvidSP databases
• Proquest databases
• PubMed
• Thomson Reuters databases

• Biology 140: Quick guide to finding books in reference & reserve at Woodward
• Academic Integrity Resource Centre
• RefWorks and RefShare at UBC Library
• UBC Library Document Delivery Service
• What's the difference? Popular and scholarly articles explained

• The Guided Tour - Interactive audio tutorials introducing Library resources