Requesting Books via Borrow Direct

If a book you are looking for is not available at Yale, you can request that book from any of the 6 other major research libraries in northeastern US, which participate in the "Borrow Direct" program. This tutorial shows how to request books via Borrow Direct. The HTML version of this tutorial is available here.

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Verifying Citations Using Single Citation Matcher

The Single Citation Matcher from PubMed is a handy tool for quickly locating the complete citations of journal articles. This tutorial will teach how to use the Single Citation Matcher. The HTML version of this tutorial is available here.

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Book Title Search in Orbis

If you know the exact title of a book you want, you can do a quick title search in the Orbis catalog to see if the Yale Library has a copy of it or if the Library has it online. This tutorial shows how to do book title searches in Orbis. The HTML version of this tutorial is available here.

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Journal Title Search in Orbis

Orbis is the catalog of Yale University Library. This tutorial shows how to perform a journal title search in Orbis. This is another quick way of finding a known journal (in addition to using the E-Journals Database we talked about last time). The advantage of Orbis is that it not only gets you the online journals, but also the print holdings information of the journal you are looking for. The HTML version of this tutorial is available here.

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Interlibrary Loan via Yale Links

In this video, I am going to show you how to quickly send interlibrary loan requests for journal articles via Yale Links. The HTML version of this tutorial is available here.

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Using Yale Links

In this video, I am going to show you how to use "Yale Links" to quickly locate the full text of articles you find in a database. The HTML version of this tutorial is available here.

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Five Things to Know about the Medical Library

This video highlights 5 important services provided by the Yale Medical Library. Enjoy!

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