Tutorials and documents
Since 2020, the ULB Tirol has been offering numerous instructions, tutorials and documents for self-study via its OLAT course "BibSearch, databases and more". Our course it is aimed at students, researchers and teachers of all disciplines, as well as pupils and interested parties who would like to have additional and supplementary materials to offered training courses. Members of the LFU/MUI/MCI can log in to OLAT individually with their university ID, all other users can access the course via guest access.
Top materials:
Among our interdisciplinary resources, we would like to draw your attention to some particularly practical and versatile materials:
In the BibSearch FAQs you will find the most important information on using our media search portal BibSearch.
An important point when dealing with databases is to find the right database for the respective purpose. The database information system (DBIS) offers a specialised overview and a search option as well as direct access to the resource.
All databases work in a similar way, but not in the same way. They come in many different forms and hold a wide variety of information. The meta guide on "Databases" provides a clear introduction to the subject.
A good search query is half the research. With the search matrix, even complex search formulas can be easily created and used immediately.