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Research Tutorials : Subject-Specific Tutorials

The tutorials on this page focus on learning how to do research within specific subject areas or disciplines.

For each subject area, you may see video or PDF/PowerPoint/Word links.

Art & Architecture Research

Finding Images using the Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals

Business & market research

Education research

Empirical vs. theoretical articles

History research

How do I find historical newspapers? (video link)

How do I find historical newspapers?

Archive Grid (video link)

STEM & Health Sciences research

How do I find articles written by a nurse? (video link)
How do I find articles written by a nurse? Transcript

How to read the title of a standard

Patent Searching Strategies:

Help with Databases:

How can I create a more comprehensive search for literature in the health sciences? (PDF)

PubMed Essentials (interactive module)
How to use MeSH terms in your PubMed search (video link)
A short video detailing what MeSH terms are, how they can be used to make a stronger PubMed search, and how to add them to your PubMed searches.

How to use MeSH terms in your PubMed search
A guide to using PubMed's MeSH Database and searching with MeSH terms
How to build a MeSH search
A handout sharing the steps to identifying and adding MeSH terms to your PubMed search

Help with Rayyan, a tool for systematic reviews and evidence syntheses:

Creating a Review in Rayyan

Inviting Collaborators to Your Review in Rayyan (video link)

Inviting Collaborators to Your Rayyan Review

Deduplicating in Rayyan (PDF version)

Title / Abstract Screening Using Rayyan (video link)

Title / Abstract Screening Using Rayyan

Full Text Screening Using Rayyan (video link)

Full Text Screening Using Rayyan

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