The tutorials below start from OneSearch itself, but it is better for you to start your journey on the Library home page, where you can choose many options to focus your searching:
The following video tutorial shows you how to move from the library home page to search results. Note as well:
The following are tutorials that give an overview of basic and advanced search features. Note that our library's OneSearch function starts on the library home page, while these tutorials start on the OneSearch platform.
Basic Search:
https://youtu.be/vv3hId0PiB4?si=2He7KAEqRj9LHqTv
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Advanced search:
https://youtu.be/kM0_IfwfsKQ?si=lsFqvccXatrrzk2N
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Filters are tools that help you narrow your search to results that are more relevant to your information need. Filters also reduce the total number of search results you have to deal with. Apply filters once you do your original search. If you have under 30 results or so, filters are probably not needed.
https://youtu.be/SPDuB7uIF_Q?si=jJMiTsYpzQSvTXvW
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https://youtu.be/6YIjdo73cg0?si=SZR8BlEM_CuxikFu
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MyEBSCO is a personal space to you can sign up for. You are not required to use it, but it may be helpful for storing and organizing search results. You need to sign up for it with your own user name and password. Neither EBSCO, nor TWU library staff will know your login or be able to access your MyEBSCO.
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If you want to save a search to MyEBSCO, log in, do the search, then click on the three dots to the right of your results list:
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Publishers have placed limitations on how you use most of our ebooks. These include:
1. How many users can access a book at the same time.
2. How many pages you can download as a PDF.
This video explains those features.
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OneSearch has options to let you create citations formatted in a particular style (APA, MLA, Chicago/Turabian, etc.). While the formatted citations are quite good, please be aware that you need to check them, because they may contain format errors.
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See the EBSCO-created advanced searching tutorial above on this page. The following tutorial clarifies a few elements of advanced searching.
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A bibliographic manager is a tool that can store your found citations, format them, and use them in writing research reports. The library offers extensive support for EndNote (https://libguides.twu.ca/EndNote/). Other managers are Zotero, Mendeley, RefWorks, etc. There is a Mac manager called Papers.
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There are times, especially when you are doing scoping reviews or systematic reviews, when you will try several searches and then want to combine the various searches you have done, into a larger search. The following video show you how to do that.
https://youtu.be/ZBIFPLo8UDc?si=PpynpFFYIfD6d7hA
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Land Acknowledgement
Trinity Western University's Langley campus is located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Stó:lō people. We are grateful for the opportunity to live, work, and learn on this land.
