Passports Skills Video Series

The Passports Skills Video Series was designed to introduce users to the basic features and services of Passports, the web site for the Emerson Library at Webster University. If you have questions while using Passports, please contact the Emerson Library Reference Department at (314) 968-6950 or (800-985-4279). Webster and Eden Theological Seminary students, faculty, and staff may also use our Ask a Librarian email service.

Note to Webster U. extended campuses: All campuses were given a CD-Rom containing most of the programs listed below.

System Requirements

These presentations require the ability to play Flash and mp3 files. To play Flash files, you may need to download and install Flash and Shockwave, located at: http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/.

To play mp3 files, you may need to download and install Windows Media Player, located at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/default.aspx or Quicktime, located at: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/.

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Passports Skills Video Presentations

Overview of Passports Services (11:29)

Introduces the services and resources available via Passports. Recommended as an overview for both Webster/Eden and external groups interested in the wealth of resources available online.

Doing Research in Business & Management--Part 1: Articles (13:19)

Doing Research in Business & Management-- Part 2: Financials (9:04)

Search skills and strategies using the Business Source Premier database to find articles; Mergent for company financials, and D & B Key Business Ratios for industry rations. Suggested as overview for students and faculty.

Doing Research in Education (13:25)

Sample searches are done in the ERIC database.

Doing Legal Research (14:05)

Illustrates how to use the Lexis-Nexis Academic database to find cases, statutes, and law review articles.

Doing Research in Nursing (16:18)

Shows sample searches in the CINAHL and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews databases and outlines how to request articles not found online.

Doing Research in Psychology & Counseling (13:41)

Search skills and strategies using the PsycInfo database to find articles. Suggested as overview for students and faculty.

Using Passports: Skills for Success

Focused introductions to Passports' services and resources.

Finding books in the library catalog (6:25)

An introduction to search the catalog, focusing on printed books.

E-books (4:07)

Reading the text of books online via netLibrary and other databases.

Finding Articles on Your Topic (5:14)

Selecting a database, search skills and strategies, and linking to text.

Searching Multiple Databases: Central Search (6:48)

Demonstrates how to use Central Search, a federated search product, to search more than one database at once.

Identifying Peer-Reviewed Journals (4:34)

Getting Books and Articles from Emerson Library (10:22)

Finding text online, using Article Linker, Document Delivery for extended campuses and Interlibrary Loan for home campus.

Managing Sources and Creating Bibliographies with RefWorks (7:14)

Introduces the RefWorks program which allows the user to export database searches into a file and format the citations according to various bibliographic styles (e.g. APA, MLA, etc.).

Videos for Instruction (4:05)

For faculty: finding and reserving videos for classroom use.

Web Sites for University Courses (2:55)

Passports' 'Net Resources by Subject lists.

Electronic Reserves for Students and Faculty (8:01)

The first three minutes introduces students to e-Reserves. For faculty, includes information on requesting an account, adding documents, copyright, setting student passwords, and archiving files for future semesters.

Identifying Plagiarism with Turnitin (7:54)

For faculty: covers requesting an account, syllabus statement, and submitting documents.

Getting Research Help (2:36)