FAMU Libraries: How-to Guides

This guide will introduce you to scholarly resources you will need for your research assignments; Scholarly and Popular Publications-journals, magazines, newspapers; and define primary and secondary sources.

ProQuest Basic Search provides a simple and intuitive path to retrieving results quickly.

Use the ProQuest Advanced search to construct your search using a form, selecting specific fields and descriptive terms.

Use the Publication search page on ProQuest to browse, search or create alerts for specific titles

Provide access to authoritative content including full-text titles to support and enhance the search experience.

Service for universities whose graduate students actively publish their doctoral dissertations and /or master's theses with Proquest's UMI Dissertation Publishing...

Basic searching couldn't be easier. Watch this tutorial on how to get started with your research.

This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Cite feature available on EBSCOhost, as well as several other EBSCO interfaces.

This tutorial demonstrates how to use Advanced Searching on the EBSCOhost interface with the Guided Style Find Fields.

Now that you have located your article, how do you read it? There's a tutorial for that and other features you may want to use.

This tutorial demonstrates how to read EBSCO eBooks in EBSCOhost and EBSCO Discovery Service online using your browser.

This video shows how to check your library account.