Help Guides, Training and Tutorials

Materials posted on this page can be freely used for INSPIRE promotional and training activities.

• Inspire 360 Webinar

Help Guides and Handouts

PubMed LinkOut

If you are a PubMed Medline user, you can link to your own holdings and full-text INSPIRE holdings from PubMed. Registration is free and more information can be found at LinkOut or call Peggy Richwine at the Indiana University School of Medicine at 317-274-2292 or Elaine Skopelja at 317-274-8358.

EBSCO Thematic Units & Lesson Plans

Lesson plans and templates for the Primary Search, Middle Search, MAS Ultra, and TOPICsearch databases.

Biography In Context

• Search Tips
• Navigating the Homepage (1:21)
• Searching (1:31)
• Topic Pages and Documents (2:35)
  

Gale Virtual Reference Library

• Downloading e-books to handheld devices [pdf, 643 KB]
• Navigation Guide [pdf, 441 KB]
• Search Tips [pdf, 468 KB]
• New INSPIRE eBooks [pdf, 468 KB]
  

Informe!

• Fact Sheet (PDF)
• Search Tips (PDF)
• Search Tips (PDF) (Spanish and English) 

WorldCat

• Interface Searching Tips 
  

Training & Tutorials

• Tutorials

  • Advanced Searching Inspire by Publication (PDF)
  • Advanced Searching in EBSCOhost (3 min)
  • Basic searching in EBSCOhost (3 min)
  • Biography in Context Navigating the Homepage (1:55)
  • Biography in Context Searching  (1:32)
  • Biography in Context Topics Pages & Documents (2:34)
  • Creating Search and Journal Alerts in EBSCOhost (3 min)
  • My EBSCOhost (5 min)
  • TeachingBooks.net Tutorials (7 total - videos range from 3 minutes to a half hour)
  • Worldcat Genealogy Tutorial (PDF)
    

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  Citing INSPIRE Sources

  • Citing Electronic Resources
  • Citing U.S. Government Publications