Orientation Topics

1.  six libraries
2.  ID card is library card
3.  2 month check out period; fines; online renewal
4.  web pages for help (subject specific)
        http://www.library.yale.edu/science/
5.  instruction sessions
6.  email reference from web page
7.  online journals (web page) for known items
      journal abbreviation search engine
8.  Orbis book catalog -- all Yale libraries  
      (journal names BUT NOT journal articles)
      Borrow Direct for books from other schools
9.  journal indexes (web pages) - 
       popular core indexes (Academic Search, WilsonWeb) 
            and by subject
       Physics
           INSPEC, Web of Science, arXiv (pre-prints)
       Chemistry
           SciFinder Scholar and Beilstein/Gmelin 
             
           Web of Science
       Biology
           Biosis, WilsonWeb, Web of Science, Agricola, (SFS)

       ALL HAVE "SFX" links to full text for many items

10.  ILL for articles we don't have (sfx fills in a form)
        Borrow Direct for books we don't have
11.  AutoAlerts to save strategies for weekly email updates
        (from Current Contents and subject databases)
12.  web searching
         Web Gateways page for general searching
            Google keyword searching 
            DogPile and HotBot for multisearching
            Yahoo for browsing 
         web pages for subject-specific Best Web Tools
              

13.  online HELP (librarian emulator)
        Help section of subject pages 
           and  
        "Help Getting Started" option