Lawrence V.
Johnson Library

GALILEO Help & Tips

The University System of Georgia has created a GALILEO Tutorial to guide you in creating a search strategy and searching the databases. Johnson Library also has a series of guides on searching and accessing GALILEO:

In addition to help screens that are linked from search pages of most GALILEO databases, many of the producers of the databases have sites with guides or tips for searching their databases. Links to the database producers' help pages are listed below.

ISI

EBSCOhost
EBSCO is the producer of Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, MLA International Bibliography, American Humanities Index, Sociological Collection, Religion and Philosophy Collection, and many other databases covering health, education and business.

ProQuest
ProQuest produces Research Library, ABI/INFORM, and full-text newspaper databases. Guides to their databases are available in PDF and Word format.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
Cambridge Scientific produces a number of databases covering technological fields such as engineering and computer science, as well as databases relating to specialized fields of medicine.

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals is produced by RLG.

ISI
ISI publishes Current Contents Connect.

Oxford English Dictionary
OED has a number of useful and informative guides about the dictionary.
Steven Vincent
August 24, 2005
Lawrence V. Johnson Library
Southern Polytechnic State University

 

 

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