An Introduction to El Portal

Click here for a brief tutorial that provides information on basic searching using the PowerSearch box on El Portal. You will learn about general searching of magazines, academic journals, electronic books and newspapers. It will take under 5 minutes to learn the easy way to search.

Find out what magazines and journals are searched in the top PowerSearch box of El Portal

Click here to learn how to find out if a particular magazine or journal is included in PowerSearch. You will be able to see if the title is available in full text and the dates of coverage included in the database. You will learn how to find a particular edition and select an article. This tutorial is approximately 5 minutes long and will save you a significant amount of learning time.

To view the El Portal tutorials, you need to install the Adobe Flash 10 plug-in for your browser