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NLB eDatabases is a gateway to NLB digitised and born digital content.

In the forthcoming weeks, Digi.talk would be providing a series of online tutorials, showing how to do basic searches, using the eDatabases offered in NLB's eResources.

This week's tutorial will be targetted at Library PressDisplay database. Library PressDisplay provides full-colour digital replications of hundreds of newspapers from around the globe. It offers full content and interactive access to newspapers from over 60 countries in over 30 languages.

To view our online tutorial on how to use Library PressDisplay eDatabase, click here.

Look forward to many more useful tutorials on how to use our various eDatabases in the upcoming weeks!

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NLB eDatabases is a gateway to NLB digitised and born digital content.

In the forthcoming weeks, Digi.talk would be providing a series of online tutorials, showing how to do basic searches, using the eDatabases offered in NLB's eResources.

This week's tutorial will be targetted at Xreferplus database. Access the digitised versions of over 120 reference books including dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations and subject-specific reference titles

To view our online tutorial on how to use Xreferplus eDatabase, click here.

Look forward to many more useful tutorials on how to use our various eDatabases in the upcoming weeks!

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NLB eDatabases is a gateway to NLB digitised and born digital content.

In the forthcoming weeks, Digi.talk would be providing a series of online tutorials, showing how to do basic searches, using the eDatabases offered in NLB's eResources.

This week's tutorial will be targetted at Factiva database. Use Factiva's research products to gain single click access to a deep archive of news and business information that provides a historical, global, and local perspective, which can help you uncover essential information on your prospects, partners or customers easily.

To view our online tutorial on how to use Factiva eDatabase, click here.

Look forward to many more useful tutorials on how to use our various eDatabases in the upcoming weeks!

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NLB eDatabases is a gateway to NLB digitised and born digital content.

In the forthcoming weeks, Digi.talk would be providing a series of online tutorials, showing how to do basic searches, using the eDatabases offered in NLB's eResources.

This week's tutorial will be targetted at the Newsbank database. Newsbank offers full-text content of local and regional newspapers (This includes Straits Times and Business Times). Each newspaper has its own distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues. Paid advertisements are excluded.

To view our online tutorial on how to use Newsbank eDatabase, click here.

Look forward to many more useful tutorials on how to use our various eDatabases in the upcoming weeks!

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NLB eCollections is a gateway to NLB digitised and born digital content.

In the forthcoming weeks, Digi.talk would be providing a series of online tutorials, showing how to do basic searches, using the eCollections offered in NLB's eResources.

This week's tutorial will be targetted at the British Library Collection. A selection of digitised rare and unique historical materials on Singapore residing in the British Library.

To view our online tutorial on how to use British Library Collection, click here.

To visit our databases, visit <eCollections.

Look forward to many more useful tutorials on how to use our various eCollections in the upcoming weeks!

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NLB eCollections is a gateway to NLB digitised and born digital content.

In the forthcoming weeks, Digi.talk would be providing a series of online tutorials, showing how to do basic searches, using the eCollections offered in NLB's eResources.

This week's tutorial will be targetted at the Singapore Heritage. Discover Singapore's history and heritage through our digitised collection of older Singapore imprint.

To view our online tutorial on how to use Singapore Heritage, click here.

To visit our databases, visit <eCollections.

Look forward to many more useful tutorials on how to use our various eCollections in the upcoming weeks!

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NLB eCollections is a gateway to NLB digitised and born digital content.

In the forthcoming weeks, Digi.talk would be providing a series of online tutorials, showing how to do basic searches, using the eCollections offered in NLB's eResources.

This week's tutorial will be targetted at the Research Guide. Research Guide is a collection of bibliography, pathfinders (subject guides) and resource guides compiled by our Reference Librarians to help you conduct research on various topics.

To view our online tutorial on how to use Research Guide, click here.

To visit our databases, visit <eCollections.

Look forward to many more useful tutorials on how to use our various eCollections in the upcoming weeks!

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NLB eCollections is a gateway to NLB digitised and born digital content.

In the forthcoming weeks, Digi.talk would be providing a series of online tutorials, showing how to do basic searches, using the eCollections offered in NLB's eResources.

This week's tutorial will be targetted at the Singapore Infopedia. Singapore Infopedia(previously known as InfoXpress) is made up of a searchable collection of articles on topics that have helped to shape Singapore's history, culture, landscape and thinking.

To view our online tutorial on how to use Singapore Infopedia collection, click here.

To visit our databases, visit <eCollections.

Look forward to many more useful tutorials on how to use our various eCollections in the upcoming weeks!

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NLB eCollections is a gateway to NLB digitised and born digital content.

In the forthcoming weeks, Digi.talk would be providing a series of online tutorials, showing how to do basic searches, using the eCollections offered in NLB's eResources.

This week's tutorial will be targetted at the Singapore Story. Singapore Story features researched packages on people, events and places that have made their mark on Singapore. Each package provides a narrative on a particular theme and is enhanced with images from the digitised collection

To view our online tutorial on how to use Singapore Story collection, click here.

To visit our databases, visit <eCollections.

Look forward to many more useful tutorials on how to use our various eCollections in the upcoming weeks!

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NLB offers a wide range of ebook services for on-screen reading via your computer or on a variety of supported devices. Read them online 24x7 without ever worrying that you have to pay library fines for late return.

In the forthcoming weeks, Digi.talk would be providing a series of online tutorials, showing how to do basic searches, using the eBooks offered in NLB's eResources.

This week's tutorial will be targetted at the NetLibrary collection. Overdrive is a collection of 5,000 popular ebooks and audio books, including all kinds of genres and many general interest subjects, coming from publishers such as HarperCollins, McGraw-Hill, Time Warner, Scholastic, and Nolo Press

To check out ebooks/audio books, you are required to type in your username and NRIC or Membership no. or FIN that you first used, when you registered for an NLB Digital Library account.

To view our online tutorial on how to use netlibrary collection, click here

To visit our databases, visit eBooks collection.

Look forward to many more useful tutorials on how to use our various eBooks collections in the upcoming weeks!

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NLB offers a wide range of ebook services for on-screen reading via your computer or on a variety of supported devices. Read them online 24x7 without ever worrying that you have to pay library fines for late return.

In the forthcoming weeks, Digi.talk would be providing a series of online tutorials, showing how to do basic searches, using the eBooks offered in NLB's eResources.

This week's tutorial will be targetted at the NetLibrary collection. TumbleBook Library is a collection of animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.

To view our online tutorial on how to use netlibrary collection, click here.

To visit our databases, visit eBooks collection.

Look forward to many more useful tutorials on how to use our various eBooks collections in the upcoming weeks!

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NLB offers a wide range of ebook services for on-screen reading via your computer or on a variety of supported devices. Read them online 24x7 without ever worrying that you have to pay library fines for late return.

In the forthcoming weeks, Digi.talk would be providing a series of online tutorials, showing how to do basic searches, using the eBooks offered in NLB's eResources.

This week's tutorial will be targetted at the NetLibrary collection. NLB netlibrary collection provides access to NLB?s eBook collection. With over 5,000 digitised books available, you can access your library's eContent 24 hours a days, seven days a week.

To view our online tutorial on how to use netlibrary collection, click here.

To visit our databases, visit eBooks collection.

Look forward to many more useful tutorials on how to use our various eBooks collections in the upcoming weeks!

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NLB provides a variety of databases to its users. One of these many databases is Pop Culture eCollection, which provides useful fodder for social science, history, art and liberal arts researchers.

It comprises of 100 full-text periodicals and the following reference eBooks:
- Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990
- Bowling, Beatniks, and Bell-Bottoms: Pop Culture of 20th-Century America
- Contemporary Fashion
- International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
- St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
- U*X*L American Decades
- and Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever 2006 and 2007

To view our online tutorial, click Here.
to learn how to do a basic search using Pop Culture eCollection.

To access this database, click here.

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Today, our online tutorial will show how to do a basic search for information using ProQuest 5000 International.

Proquest is a database that has a wide offering of datasets. Its prominent datasets include ABI Inform and Wilson’s Social Sciences Index, and its subject coverage includes Business, Accounting and Tax, Applied Science and Technology, Banking, Health, General Science, Computing, Education, Pharmaceuticals, Medicine, Religion and Social Science.

The various ProQuest datasets are:

> ProQuest ABI/INFORM Complete
> ProQuest Accounting & Tax
> ProQuest Asian Business
> ProQuest Banking Information Source
> ProQuest Computing
> ProQuest Education Complete
> ProQuest EIU ViewsWire
> ProQuest European Business
> ProQuest Hoover Company Records
> ProQuest Medical Complete
> ProQuest Newspapers Complete
> ProQuest Religion
> ProQuest Research Library
> ProQuest Science Journals
> ProQuest Social Science Journals
> ProQuest Telecommunications

View our tutorial For more information, visit ProQuest's help.

To use ProQuest, visit NLB's eResources on its homepage.

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For this week, we will be showing how to search for useful information using EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier.

EBSCOhost provides full text for over 4,500 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals in subject areas such as biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, religion, arts and sociology.

Titles include American Journal of Political Science, American Libraries, British Journal of Sociology, Contemporary Literature, International Journal of Psychology, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism, Journal of Counseling & Development, Journal of Education, Library Journal.

To know how to do a basic search, view our tutorial
For more search help, visit EBSCOhost Academic help.

You can access this database from NLB's eResources.

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In the forthcoming weeks, Digi.talk would be providing a series of online tutorials, showing how to do basic searches, using the databases offered in NLB's eResources.

It is the season for the arts with the opening of the Singapore Biennale.
To join in this festive mood, digi.talk would be highlighting one of the many databases offered in the National Library Board’s website that provides information about the arts for this week's online tutorial.

We will be showing how to search for information using xreferplus Art, which provides digitized versions of arts-related reference work. Through xreferplus Art, you would be able to access digitised versions of arts-related reference works, including the Cambridge Guide to Theatre, Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Graphic Design and Designers and The Bridgeman Art Library Archive (over 17,000 images available).

View our online tutorial
to learn how to do a basic search using xreferplus Art.
For more search help, visit here.

To visit our databases, visit NLB's eDatabases.

Look forward to many more useful tutorials on how to use our various databases in the upcoming weeks!

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