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.

Update: there is an updated version of this video.

Using Eli Express Service

If a book you are looking for is not available at the Medical Library, but is available at another library on campus, you can request that book to be delivered to Medical via a free service known as "Eli Express". This tutorial shows how to request the Eli Express service using the Orbis catalog. 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.

Update: an updated version of this tutorial is available here.

Finding E-Books at Yale

The Yale Library's E-Books Database provides quick access to the Library's online books collection. This tutorial shows how to do a quick lookup for an e-book with a known title. The HTML version of this tutorial is available here.

Update: This tutorial is unavailable because it is being revised. Please check back for an update.

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.

Update: an updated version of this tutorial is available here.

Finding E-Journals at Yale

The Yale Library's E-Journals Database provides a quick way to find out if Yale has an online subscription to the journal in which the article you are looking for was published. This tutorial shows how to use the E-Journals Database. The HTML version of this tutorial is available here.

Update: This tutorial is unavailable because it is being revised. Please check back for an update.

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.

Update: there is an updated version of this video.

Interlibrary Loan Via Yale Links

In this tutorial, I will show you how to use "Yale Links" to send interlibrary loan requests when the Yale Library does not have a subscription to the articles you want. The HTML version of this tutorial is available here.

Again the Yale Medical Library is sponsoring a video contest to promote "Yale Links" - you have a chance to win a video iPod (actually now an iPod Touch)! Click here for more information on the video contest.

Update: a new version of this tutorial is available here.

Using Yale Links

Starting from today, I am going to post a series of video tutorials on the basics of using the resources and services at the Yale Medical Library (known as "Library 101"). This is a re-make of a series of video tutorials I made 2 years ago, which began to go out of date.

In this first episode, 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.

I also wanted to mention that the Yale Medical Library is currently advertising a "video contest" to promote "Yale Links" - you have a chance to win a video iPod! Click here for more information on the video contest.

Update: there is an updated version of this video.