AccessUN
Tutorial
Overview of Tutorial
Take it All at Once or Randomly
You can take the tutorial lesson by lesson, or you can choose your topics to meet your needs. A tutorial index will be linked on each page to help you easily navigate the help screens.
The tutorial should take you approximately 30 minutes to complete.
Follow the Screen Shot or Open a Live Link
One way to take the tutorial is to read the explanations and view the screen shots. But to get hands-on practice using the system, you should follow along by opening a new browser window and linking to AccessUN.
The directions for following along will be included in the tutorial, and will be marked with a 
Tutorial Topics
This tutorial covers the topics listed below, and does not attempt to cover every possible seach option. Instead, it introduces basic searches and idiosyncrasies of the database.
- Author Searching
- Title Searching
- Subject Searching
- Document Number Searching
- Weeding Results
PLEASE NOTE THESE IMPORTANT ACCESS RESTRICTIONS: Due to the licensing restrictions of the this database, AccessUN is not available to you from a home computer, even if you are dialing into a UIUC server. You can only take the tutorial with a live link to AccessUN if you are working in a University of Illinois Library, or at a University of Illinois computing center.
Created for LIS 316: Library Instruction and Assistance Systems.
Graduate School of Library and Information
Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
11/2000.
Please send comments to: Email Reference: gdoclib@uiuc.edu
Special thanks to Newsbank/Readex, the publisher of AccessUN, for permission to use screen shots of the database.
