Set aside time to go through these resources.

Google Scholar:

• Have a look at Using Google Scholar to refine a literature search and remember to use the Since [date] limit on the results screen.

Medline (Ovid):

• The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale has short video tutorials on how to search Medline (Ovid).

CINAHL Plus:

• The Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto has a bunch of short and useful CINAHL Plus online tutorials
• The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale also has video tutorials on how to search CINAHL Plus.
• Ebsco has videos on CINAHL basic searching, advanced searching and CINAHL MeSH searching
• brief 4 minute Youtube video on searching CINAHL using subject headings, keywords, truncation, combining searches and applying limits.
  

PubMed: We do advise that you look at the videos for PubMed because this is a free database which means when you graduate and move on you can access PubMed as long as you have internet access.

• View these online training videos and tutorials.
• View Using PubMed in evidence based practice
• Additionally, the Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins University has a helpful guide on how to search PubMed

Ovid databases:

• Voiced online modules on how to search the Ovid databases particularly Medline and a couple on Embase and APA PsycINFO on the Ovid training website.