Using ProQuest Research Library
ProQuest
provides access to over 2,600+ publications, of which nearly 1,000
are peer reviewed periodicals.
Overall dates of coverage
range from 1971 to the present.
ProQuest Research Library is comprised of a core collection of
publications, 19 subject specific modules, and National Newspapers 5.
To get to ProQuest
1. From the Virtual Library home page,
select "Research and Information Resources."
2. Click on "Online Subscription Databases -- registered
user."
3. Scroll down the screen to ProQuest and click on
"registered user."
4. At the prompt, enter the username 000YGHP6XG and the password WELCOME.
5. ProQuest defaults (automatically
goes back to) a basic keyword search.
To use the ProQuest "Advanced Search"
- From the
ProQuest home page, click on the "Advanced Search" tab at the top of
the page.
- You may select AND,
OR, and NOT to combine keywords associated with 16 searchable fields.
- The search options
defaults to "Citation and article text" fields
--
- The advanced
search also prompts the user with key field names listed next to
keyword boxes. For the researcher who is uncertain of spelling,
vocabulary, or terminology, each keyword box is followed by a
link to the browse feature for the associated field. Users can
scroll through the alphabetical listing of keywords and phrases from a
particular field.
- Practice
Search #1
- in the first
box type control and select
the "subject" search option
- leave the
AND in place, type ammunition
in the next box, and leave the search option at "Citation and text"
- in the box
next to "Location" type Israel
- click on
"search"
- Open any of
the articles that interest you
- examine the
bibliographic information, paying particular attention to the subject
heading list
- click on the
"More like this" link
- use clues in
the bibliographic record from the first article to expand or refine
your search
- the goal of
research is to find the right amount of useful, accurate
information: 2 hits may be too few, while 421 is certainly too
many.
- to expand
the number of hits, reduce the number of keywords and choose the "In
article text" search field
- to reduce
the number of hits, limit search to only newspapers or periodicals, to
a particular type of article (feature, editorial, etc.), or a
specific date or range of dates.
- Practice
Search #2
- in the first
box type recipes and select
the "subject" search option
- in the next
box type tuscan and select the
"article text" search option
- select the
AND NOT option, and type cookbook OR
book
- in the
"Database" box select "News--ProQuest Newspapers"
- click on
"search"
- Practice
Search #3
- click on the
"Topic Guide" tab at the top of the ProQuest home page
- select the following headings
and subheadings: environment----------->pollution--------->pollution control---------->brownfield view articles
- click on
each of the tabs at the top of the articles list
- note:
this approach may be useful for students who need help finding topics
that interest them