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Database/Service	Tutorial/Guide
California Digital Library (CDL)	CDL Profile Setting up a personal account with the CDL. Why use Profile? To save your searches across multiple sessions, to store your e-mail address and other information. Required if you want to use Update - see below. CDL Update Current awareness tool for keeping up with the literature. Store searches and have them automatically run when new information is added to a CDL database, such as MEDLINE, BIOSIS, etc. Information about new articles is automatically e-mailed to you. CDL Request Information about using the Request function inside CDL databases to generate Interlibrary Loan requests.
MEDLINE The premier North American database for searching the journal literature of biomedical and health services research.	Getting Started with MEDLINE/HealthStar Guide to using MEDLINE on the California Digital Library system, the UC's version of MEDLINE. Using MEDLINE/Healthstar on the Web A self-guided tutorial from UCLA featuring instructions in one frame and a live session on the MEDLINE/Healthstar database from the California Digital Library in the other frame. Note: graphics have not been updated since CDL MEDLINE was redesigned, and some new features are not discussed. MEDLINE via PubMed: PubMed Tutorial - from the University of Colorado PubMed Help from NCBI Training Manuals for PubMed and Internet Grateful Med, from NLM These are manuals and workbooks used in NLM's training programs for MEDLINE via PubMed and Internet Grateful Med. There are PDF, WordPerfect and PostScript versions available.
BIOSIS A major database covering the literature of the biological and biomedical sciences.	NOTE: BIOSIS's structure is changing this Summer-Fall. Read about changes here. BIOSIS Previews This tutorial, hosted by UC Berkeley, covers how to use BIOSIS on the telnet (command) version of the California Digital Library system. BIOSIS Search Guide From the California Digital Library - covers telnet version
Current Contents Very up-to-date journal coverage in all disciplines.	Current Contents Covers the telnet version from the California Digital Library. Tutorial hosted by UCSD's SIO Library. Using Current Contents for the Sciences (UC Irvine) - covers telnet version
PsycINFO Covers psychology, psychiatry and other aspects of behavioral sciences, including journals, books, chapters.	PsycINFO on MELVYL (now CDL) This guide from UC Berkeley covers the telnet version. PsycINFO Journal Coverage - from APA
California Digital Library (CDL) Database system Formerly the MELVYL System	MELVYL System via the Web [now CDL] The CDL encompasses the system formerly known as the MELVYL System, where many of our major library databases reside. This guide helps understand basic navigation of this system. Guide is by UC Berkeley.
Bibliographic Software	Not strictly a tutorial, but we do offer some tips on using bibliographic software such as End-Note and Reference Manager with library databases.
Patent Searching	Patent Number Searching (UCSD Science & Engineering Library)

More to come - watch this space!