E-Learning

With the following collection of digital media for use

• the services of the library of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society,
• individual databases and for
• academic work

we would like to support you in familiarizing yourself with important tools for literature and information research and with the requirements of academic work in a flexible manner in terms of time and location through self-study, possibly in addition to our training and advisory services.

In three videos we would like to introduce you to the use of our university library services.
The first video deals with the account functions and the research options of our library catalog. The second video shows you how to find the print journals and e-journals we have available for you. The third video deals with systematic searches for (article) literature in academic databases.

• Introduction to the library's online catalog (Web-OPAC) Video tutorial (12:12 min) 
• Researching journals (print and electronic journal library ) Video tutorial (6:08 min)
• Literatureresearch in databases (DBIS) Video tutorial (8:51 min)

• Brief UserGuide from Beck-Verlag (as of 2018)
• Brief User Guide of the Beck-Verlag (as of 2018) (English)
• Help of the Beck-Verlag
• Frequently asked questions (FAQs) of the Beck publishing house

• Help Center:Searching in BioOne (English)
• Help Center: Topics (english)

• Basic Searching from EBSCOhost (4 min) (English)
• Advanced Searching from EBSCOhost (4 min)
• EBSCO Tutorials
• Current EBSCO online webinars

• Webinar - In the approximately one-hour Webninar, held by Dr. Andreas Lauterbach, Pflegewissenschaftler and managing director with hpsmedia GmbH, it goes (beginning starting from minute 01:45) in the first 23 minutes  first around the increase of available specialized information, around the artificial intelligence used in search machines and data bases as well as around Fake News and truth in search results. This is followed by information on how to plan a literature search, before an introduction to the literature search in CareLit using the tools offered there, such as operators, index, keywords, etc., is given from about minute 26:35.
• RefHunter - Manual for literature research in specialized databases in the field of health (PDF) (German)
  Scientific staff of the Institute for Health and Nursing Science at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Institute for Applied Nursing Science at the University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen have created RefHunter, a manual for literature research in specialized databases in the field of health. It is intended to help users to find their way around the peculiarities of various databases and to develop search strategies appropriate to the database. For this purpose, a tabular overview of the basic and special functions with explanations and examples was created for each database - including the CareLit specialist bibliography and full-text database for .

• Webinar (just under 1 hour) - Georg Vogtherr, Master of Library and Information Science and EBSCO Customer Training Specialist, provides information about the content of CINAHL, ways to search the database, and how to save, print, cite, export ... of search results. The main part of the training is the live demonstration of the search strategies and the various options of narrowing down hit sets. The focus is on searching via the CINAHL Subject Headings (CINAHL Subject Groups).

• RefHunter - Manual for Literature Searches in Health Databases (PDF) (German)
  Scientific staff of the Institute of Health and Nursing Science at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Institute of Applied Nursing Science at the University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen have created RefHunter, a manual for literature searches in health databases. It is intended to help users to find their way around the peculiarities of various specialist databases and to develop search strategies appropriate to the database. For this purpose, a tabular overview of the basic and special functions with explanations and examples was created for each database - including the specialist bibliography and full-text database CINAHL for .

• Basic Searching from EBSCOhost (4 min) (English)
• Advanced Searching from EBSCOhost (4 min) (english)
• EBSCO Tutorials

• CNE Quick Reference Guide (PDF): Overview of what CNE has to offer and tips for getting the most out of the fact database.
• CNE Introduction by Thieme (very quiet).

• RefHunter - Manual for Literature Searches in Health Databases (PDF) (German)
  Scientific staff of the Institute of Health and Nursing Science at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Institute of Applied Nursing Science at the University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen have created RefHunter, a manual for literature searches in health databases. It is intended to help users to find their way around the peculiarities of various databases and to develop search strategies appropriate to the database. For this purpose, a tabular overview of the basic and special functions with explanations and examples has been created for each database - including the specialist bibliography and full-text database Cochrane Library for .
• Wiley Online Library User Guide of the Wiley publishing house in PDF format (English)
• Search Help of the Cochrane Collaboration (English)

• EBSCO eBooks - Searching (4 min) (English)
• EBSCO eBooks- Downloading (4 min) (english)
• EBSCO eBooks- eBooks to your Mobile Device (english)
• EBSCO Tutorials

• FAQ of the German Institute for International Educational Research (DPF)

• RefHunter - Manual for Literature Searches in Health Databases (PDF) (German)
  Scientific staff of the Institute of Health and Nursing Science at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Institute of Applied Nursing Science at the University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen have created RefHunter, a manual for literature searches in health databases. It is intended to help users to find their way around the peculiarities of various databases and to develop search strategies appropriate to the database. For each database - including LIVIVO, the freely accessible search portal for life sciences (article database, portal, full text database) - a tabular overview of the basic and special functions with explanations and examples was created.
• Help index: A to Z
• Help index: A to Z (English)

• Database help of the NWB publishing house

• YouTube channel with video tutorials (English)
• German video tutorial
• Getting started quick guide (PDF)
• Help page of the OECD iLibrary (english)

• Basic Search (3 min) (English)
• Advanced Search (3 min) (English)
• EBSCO Tutorials (english)

• Video tutorial (downloadable) from the German Central Institute for Social Issues on how to conduct a literature search in the DZI database SoLit in WISO-NET

• Journals: SpringerLink Tutorial from Springer-Verlag (English)
• Quick Reference Guide (english)

• Video tutorials (partly English)
• Help & FAQ

• RefHunter - Manual for Literature Searches in Health Databases (PDF) (German)
  Scientific staff of the Institute of Health and Nursing Science at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and the Institute of Applied Nursing Science at the University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen have created RefHunter, a manual for literature searches in health databases. It is intended to help users to find their way around the peculiarities of various databases and to develop search strategies appropriate to the database. For this purpose, a tabular overview of the basic and special functions with explanations and examples has been created for each database - including the specialist bibliography, article and full-text database WISO for .
• WISO quick start of the GBI Genios (3:44 min.)

LOTSE videos, cooperatively created by university libraries in Germany and Switzerland.

Using the Internet

1. Gettingstarted on the Internet (11:07 min)
2. In the depths of the Internet (14:01 min)

Search strategies

1. From topic to search terms (14:23 min)
2. From search terms to literature (12:30 min)

Databases / Subject bibliographies

1. Why are subject bibliographies useful? (9:46 min)
2. Essential steps of the search (14:12 min)
3. Extras and editing hit lists (13:00 min)

Citing and avoiding plagiarism

1. Plagiarism - (not) a problem? (9:00 min)
2. Citation rules (16:01 min)

Searching for freely available scientific full texts on the net

• E-Books & Co: Searching the KVK (4:22 min)
• E-Books & Co: Search in Google Scholar (4:50 min)
• E-Books & Co: Search in BASE (3:42 min)
• E-Books & Co: Search in Google Books (4:53 min)
• E-Books & Co: Search in Internet Archive (5:35 min)

Reference management with Citavi

• Citavi introduction (PDF)
• A tour of Citavi 6 (PDF with links)
• Introduction to scientific work with Citavi 6 (PDF)
• Citavi 6 manual
• Citavi 6 manual (English)
• Get to know Citavi 6 (videos)
• Citavi 6 video tutorials (English)
• Ready, Set, Go! (Video, English)
• Citavi compact - Citavi explained as a simpleshow (videos)
• Transferringbibliographic data from our online catalog to Citavi (PDF)
• citaviWeb manual
• Citavi forum