Navigating through the wealth of information that is available at the IBFD Library can be challenging. Therefore, we have created this page filled with useful tools, links, guides, tips, video tutorials, and other information to help guide you to the resources you need. In addition, this page provides clarifications and tips on how to (best) make use of the Library Portal and all of its features. Finally, we have also created a list of FAQs for your convenience.

Search Tips & Tricks

We explain how to conduct a search in the Library Portal, with detailed descriptions and illustrations of how to limit or sort your search results, how to use “Advanced Search”, and how to search in Articles+. We give tips to help optimize and/or disambiguate your search query and your search process. We also demonstrate how you can process your search results, e.g. by saving, printing and exporting them.

Video Tutorials

Watch our video tutorials to learn more about a specific subject and/or how to use the library’s resources and tools in your research. The tutorials offer step-by-step explanations to guide you through the installation process, set-up and use of software and/or specialized tools.

Frequently Asked Questions

We provide FAQs in the following categories:
  • General FAQs
  • Search FAQs
  • E-book FAQs
  • IBFD Staff FAQs