FirstSearch Tutorial

Moving through the tutorial, you will have the browser window with the tutorial opened on the left side of your monitor and the browser window with the live FirstSearch connection opened on the right side of your monitor. If you are unable to make a live connection to FirstSearch, you may have to try at a later time. Once connected to FirstSearch, you will be timed out after several minutes of no keyboard action. If this happens, you must then use your Netscape Back button in your live connection window to reconnect at the WGU FirstSearch logon screen (http://www.unm.edu/~wguclr/Resources/Restricted/wgufs.html).

All instructions will be on the tutorial pages. Whenever you are instructed to do something on the live FirstSearch connection page, the action is underlined on the tutorial page. The underlining does not imply an outside link on the tutorial page. The tutorial pages will simply guide you step by step through the live FirstSearch connection. When you finish the instructions on a page, click on Next to go to the next tutorial page.

FirstSearch is an online search service that provides access to a variety of databases in all disciplines. It gives citations to books, periodical and newspaper articles, directory information, dissertations, audiovisual materials, Web sites and many other resources. Some of these databases include full-text documents. You can search FirstSearch databases by subject, author and title (as well as many other options, depending on the database).

This tutorial will give you a quick 15 - 30 minute overview of the key searching techniques. For a more advanced session, with in depth search strategies, see the OCLC Guided Tour.

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