ProQuest Tutorial

Designed by Tatiana Shabelnik & Marco Carrillo

ProQuest Tutorial

Welcome to E-Learning Tutorial – How to Search ProQuest Database.

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to search

ProQuest database

for articles on different topics.

ProQuest

is an extensive periodicals and newspapers database covering social issues, business, health, science, economics, current events and more. Over 2200 full-text journal titles plus the full text of the Los Angeles Times and New York Times.

This e-learning tutorial consists of different modules. You will learn how to

:

 INTRODUCTION  MODULE 1 - ProQuest: Logon On/Off campus procedures  MODULE 2 - Conduct a ProQuest Search – Basic  MODULE 3 - Conduct a ProQuest Search – Advanced  MODULE 4 Advanced Search “MORE SEARCH OPTIONS” - Search for Editorials & Commentaries  MODULE 5 - Topics & Publications Guide TAB Search  MODULE 6 - Managing Your Articles  MODULE 7 - Citing articles within Proquest  MODULE 8 – Advanced Searching Techniques » Search Syntax » Defining your search word or phrase » Precedence and Parentheses » Using Search Fields » Target your Database

Welcome to E-Learning Tutorial MODULE 1 –

How To logon to ProQuest

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOME (SLO) of this module is to learn how to

: 1) Logon to ProQuest from on-campus 2) Logon to ProQuest from off-campus between 8am and midnight 3) Logon from off-campus between midnight and 8am

Welcome to E-Learning Tutorial MODULE 1 –

How To logon to ProQuest

Let’s Begin •Start your Web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari) • Go to the Rio Hondo College Library web site at http: library.riohondo.edu

• In section RESEARCH & FIND under ARTICLES click on ProQuest There are 3 ways to access ProQuest: You can access ProQuest from On-campus, from Off-campus between 8 am and midnight and from Off-campus between midnight and 8am

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To logon to ProQuest

If you are accessing ProQuest from Rio Hondo College Library anywhere on-campus, click on “On-campus users click here.” or from You will be prompted to an Advanced Search screen by default.

Welcome to MODULE 1 –

How To logon to ProQuest

If you accessing ProQuest from

off-campus

between 8 am and 12 midnight, click on “Off-campus users click here”.

You will see the following screen:

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To logon to ProQuest

Enter your student ID or Soc. Ser. No. number (Your password is your birthday and password unless you’ve changed it in RioWEB.

Enter birthdays as: Aug 1, 1975 is 080175 and you will be prompted to this screen. Scroll down and select ProQuest title link. You will arrive to the Advanced search screen.

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To logon to ProQuest

If you are accessing ProQuest from

off-campus

between midnight and 8 am, click on “ Off campus users (midnight – 8 am) You will be asked for a password.

Please call to the Reference Desk at (562) 908-3484 to obtain the password. After you enter the password, you will see the following screen:

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To logon to ProQuest

From this screen you will see that there are 8 databases that you can access off campus between midnight and 8am.

To access ProQuest or any of the databases click on the URL and enter the account and password provided. Again you will be prompted to the Advance search screen.

MODULE 1 -

To logon to ProQuest

IN THIS MODULE YOU LEARNED HOW TO:

1) Logon to ProQuest from on-campus 2) Logon to ProQuest from off-campus between 8am and midnight 3) Logon from off-campus between midnight and 8am

In MODULE 2

you will learn how to do a Basic Search in ProQuest

At Rio Hondo College Library ProQuest is defaulted to an Advanced Search. To switch to a Basic Search, click on ”Basic” tab Basic Search

is an ideal way to get started with ProQuest. Just think of a

keyword

or

phrase

related to the information you're looking for and type it into the search field. Let’s search for a topic Genetically Modified Foods. Before we click on search let’s look how you can focus your search.

In MODULE 2

you will learn how to do a Basic Search in ProQuest

The

Database field

lets you limit your search to

a specific database available from ProQuest.

multiple databases.

The default for this field is If you want to search a database in a specific field, select the field from the drop-down menu. In our example we will search multiple databases

In MODULE 2

you will learn how to do a Basic Search in ProQuest

The default for the Date Range field is

All dates

, which searches all information in the current databases. To limit your search, select the desired date range from the drop-down menu.

If you are looking for articles published in the past 7 days, click on “Last 7 days” If you want to search for Full text documents ONLY, click on “Full text documents only.”

In MODULE 2

you will learn how to do a Basic Search in ProQuest

Check this box to search only

scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed journals .

Leave the box empty to include other sources in your search.

A publication is considered to be

scholarly

if it is authored by academics for a target audience that is mainly academic, the printed format isn't usually a glossy magazine, and it is published by a recognized society with academic goals and missions.

A publication is considered to be

peer reviewed

if its articles go through an official editorial process that involves review and approval by the author's peers (people who are experts in the same subject area.) Most (but not all) scholarly publications are peer reviewed. Click on “Search”. Let’s look at the results page.

In MODULE 2

you will learn how to do a Basic Search in ProQuest

On the results page ProQuest offers you Suggested Topics as an alternative for your search. We retrieved 13457 documents on Genetically Modified Foods. All sources include: - Scholarly Journals - Magazines - Trade Publications - Newspapers - Reference & Reports - Dissertations - Working papers If you want articles from Newspapers only, click on the tab Newspapers

In MODULE 2

you will learn how to do a Basic Search in ProQuest

From the list of citations select the ones that you are interested in. As you can see, some of the articles have Abstract only option and some have Abstract & Full-text . Your best option is to choose articles that have full-text available.

You can click on the title of the article and it will take you to the document view page.

Here you have an option to: Print E-mail Copy-link or Cite the article.

In MODULE 2

you will learn how to do a Basic Search in ProQuest

There are ways to focus your search. Some options are only available after clicking on

More Search Options tab

Let’s explore

MORE SEARCH OPTIONS

tab By default

PUBLICATION TITLE

field is empty. To limit your search to a specific publication, enter the publication's title. Or click

Look up publications

publications.

to select a title from a list of the available Enter an

author's name

to limit your search to articles written by a specific

author or reviewer.

You can enter the author's name in any order. Searching the author field for John A. Smith produces the same results as searching for Smith, John A.

You can enter multiple author's names, separating them by articles by two authors.

AND

to find

In MODULE 2

you will learn how to do a Basic Search in ProQuest

Select Citation and abstract

from the drop-down menu to search only within the citations and abstracts in ProQuest. Select

Citation and document text

to search within the complete text of the article, the citation fields, and the abstract.

Searching in

Citation and abstract

is more likely to find articles whose main focus meets your search terms. Searching in

Citation and document text

will find more articles, because it will find articles that mention your search terms anywhere within the article.

When you search just the citations and abstracts, ProQuest searches the following fields: Author Personal Name Abstract Product Name Document Title Subject Terms Company Name Source (publication title) Geographical Name

In MODULE 2

you will learn how to do a Basic Search in ProQuest

By default, ProQuest searches all

document types.

To limit your search to a specific document type (for example, annual report, book, editorial or commentary), select that down menu.

document type

from the drop Another option to limit is by publication types. Under the

Exclude from Results

you can exclude

Book Reviews, Dissertations or Newspapers.

In MODULE 2

you will learn how to do a Basic Search in ProQuest

Sort Results

field lets you select how you want your results sorted. The options that are available here depend on the database or databases you are currently searching. For example, you may be able to sort records by most relevant, or to display the most recent first.

Select the desired search order from the drop-down menu.

Welcome to MODULE 3 –

How to Search ProQuest: Advanced

At Rio Hondo College Library

ProQuest

search is

defaulted

an Advanced Search.

to

MODULE 3 -

Advanced Search

Advanced Search form helps you build focused searches.

If you click on the box labeled “

Citation and abstract

,” a drop-down list will display, showing you which fields are available for searching. To select a field to search, simply highlight it with your cursor and mouse click.

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Searching ProQuest

Let’s look at the Subject Search.

Subject Search

Searches subject or descriptor field only It uses only controlled terminology (may be from a Thesaurus) You retrieve many relevant items The retrieval is low If you want to do a keyword search, select from the drop-down menu citation & abstract or citation and document text.

Keyword Search

Searches subject, title, author, content and abstract fields You may search for any significant terms You may retrieve many irrelevant items High number of retrieval

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Advanced Search

Searching in

Citation and abstract

is more likely to find articles whose main focus meets your search terms. Searching in

Citation and document text

will find more articles, because it will find articles that mention your search terms anywhere within the article.

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Advanced Search: Databases

If you click on the box labeled “

Database

,” a drop-down list will display the databases available through ProQuest. You can either search an individual database by selecting it from the drop-down menu, or you may search all the databases option – Multiple Databases simultaneously by using the default

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Scholarly Journals, Peer-reviewed option

If you would like to limit your search by full-text documents only, check the box “Full-text documents only” Check “Scholarly journals, including peer reviewed” box to search only scholarly or peer-reviewed journals search.

. Leave the box empty to include other sources in your A publication is considered to be

scholarly

if it is authored by academics for a target audience that is mainly academic. A publication is considered to be

peer reviewed

if its articles go through an official editorial process that involves review and approval by the author's peers.

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Searching ProQuest: Example 1

Let’s look at the following example You have a citation for an article and want to find this article in ProQuest using

Document title

,

Author,

and

Publication title

menu options

Hacking, Jan. “Genetics, biosocial groups & the future of identity.” Daedalus. Boston: Fall 2006.Vol.135. Iss. 4; pg. 81, 15 pgs

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View and obtain copies of articles

ProQuest provides you with a

citation, abstract & full-text

article in html & PDF formats

.

of the

Citation/Abstract The citation

provides bibliographic information about the article, such as author, title, publication name, publication date, volume, issue and pagination.

The abstract

is a brief summary of the article.

Full Text

Full-text

versions of articles include the citation and abstract, along with the complete text of the article.

To retrieve your document in full-text you can click on Full-text in html format or in PDF format.

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View and obtain copies of articles

To view an article, click on its

title.

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View and obtain copies of articles

In the Document view page you will see the citation, abstract and full-text of the article.

You have options to print, e-mail, copy link or cite this article.

Let’s click on “

Cite this “

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View and obtain copies of articles

From the drop-down menu select

citation style

. In our case select MLA format.

As recommended in red, Insert Library name (Rio Hondo College Library), City (Whittier), State (CA)

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Searching ProQuest: Example 2

Let’s look at another example. Let’s say you are doing research on a topic “Business ethics” and specifically you would like see how it was handled at Enron. You are interested to retrieve Full-text documents ONLY published in Newspapers.

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Searching ProQuest: Example 2

Type

Enron

on the first line and from the drop-down menu select Citation & Abstract. On the second line type down menu select citation and abstract. Check “Full-text documents only”

Business ethics

and from the drop-

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Searching ProQuest: Example 2

Click on

More Search Options

box, select

Publication Type:

drop-down menu select

Newspapers .

Click on

Search f

rom the

MODULE 3 –

Managing your articles

On the

Results

page you will see

Suggested topics

to expand or narrow your search.

To keep a record of the documents that you found useful

, click in the box next to the document's title and number. ProQuest adds that document to the

Marked Documents section

of your

Marked List

.

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Managing your articles

Select articles 1 and 3.

The

Sort results by

drop-down menu lets you select sorting methods. You have two choices: to sort by

most recent first

or by

most relevant first.

Click on

Marked items

to display articles that you selected.

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Managing your articles

You will be taken to

My Research page.

On this page you have options to: - create your bibliography - e-mail marked documents with a bibliography - export citations (not applicable to Rio Hondo College students) - you also have an option to create a web page with links to your articles, searches & publications

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Explore

More Search Options

tab

More Search Options tab

by: gives you an opportunity to limit your search • publication title • subject • company/organization • person • location • classification code • NAICS code • document feature • document type • publication type

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Explore

More Search Options

tab

By default,

Publication Title

field is empty. To limit your search to a specific publication, enter the publication's title or click

Look up publications

to select a title from a list of the available publications.

Enter a

subject,

or click

Look up subjects

to open the Look Up Subjects window. The terms in the Look Up Subjects window are listed in alphabetical order, making it easy for you to browse them. Scan the list for the term you want to use for your search. You can also search for a term. Enter the term in the box and click

Find Term

. You will be taken to the nearest match (alphabetically).

If you reach the end of a page and haven't come to the term you want, just click

Next

to move to the next page. When you've found the word you're looking for, click

Add to Search

to add the term to your current search.

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Explore

More Search Options

tab

Let’s look at the example. You want to find articles on

Global Warming

published in

Los Angeles Times

.

Enter Global Warming phrase into the search field.

Select

Full text documents only

Click on

MORE SEARCH OPTIONS

tab.

Under

Publication Title

click on

Look up Publications

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Explore

More Search Options

tab

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Explore

More Search Options

tab

Select

“Los Angeles Times”

and click on

Add to Search

Click on

Search

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Explore

More Search Options

tab

If you are doing research on a specific company, enter a

company's name

, or click Look up companies to open the

Look Up Companies window.

If you reach the end of a page and haven't come to the term you want, just click Next to move to the next page. When you've found the word you're looking for, click Add to Search to add the term to your current search

.

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Explore

More Search Options

tab

To limit your search to articles or profiles about

a specific person,

enter a

name

. You can enter the name in any order. Searching the field for John A. Smith produces the same results as searching for Smith, John A. Or click

Look up people

to open the Look Up People window.

The names in the Look Up People window are listed in alphabetical order, making it easy for you to browse them. Scan the list for the name you want to add to your search.

You can also search for a name. Enter the name in the box and click

Find Term

.

You will be taken to the nearest match (alphabetically). If you reach the end of a page and haven't come to the name you want, just click

Next

the next page. When you've found the word you're looking for, click to move to

Add to Search

to add the name to your current search.

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Explore

More Search Options

tab

Classification codes

let you search business-targeted databases such as ABI/INFORM, Banking Information Source, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. The classification codes segment these databases into broad topical areas. When you use the codes with search words, classification codes are a fast way to precisely target a search by topic, industry or market, geographical area, or article type.

Enter a classification code or click

Look up classification codes

to use the

Look Up Classification Codes window

.

MODULE 3 –

Managing your articles

North American Industry Classification System codes classify documents by industry based on the primary activities of the organization.

NAICS codes

let you search for articles on a specific industry. Enter a NAICS code or a SIC code. You can also click

Look up NAICS codes

to use the Look Up NAICS codes window.

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Managing your articles

Document Feature is u

sed to search document features, such as an index or auxiliary materials, that may be included in or accompany a document.

As for Document Type, b

y default, ProQuest searches all document types. To limit your search to a specific document type (for example, bibliography, book chapter, or journal article), select that document type from the drop-down menu.

MODULE 3 :

More Search Options box in Advanced Search

Open ProQuest in

Advanced Search mode.

Type your keyword search into the text box: “national security” and terrorism . Click on

More Search Options

Under

Document Type

from a drop down menu make a choice what types of documents you are looking for: editorials, commentaries, literature review or other.

Click on Search button.

In our example we are going to search for editorials.

An editorial is a a statement or article by a news organization (generally a newspaper) that expresses an opinion rather than attempting to simply report news. Editorials are not written by the regular reporters; rather, they are collectively authored by a group of individuals called the editorial board, which represents the newspapers official position on the issues.

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How to Use Topic Guide Tab

With the ProQuest

Topic Guide

you can find articles by searching an index, or by exploring a hierarchical subject directory. Indexed topics may include subjects, companies, people, and locations. This approach is useful when you're new to searching online or when you're looking for information

on a general topic.

Click on the tab “Topics” Enter a term and select whether you want ProQuest to

Suggest Topics

or

Look up Topics A-Z, Suggest Topics

then click

Find Term.

In our example, we choose Enter your Search terms here.

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How to use Topics Guide Tab

With the ProQuest

Topic Guide

you can find articles by searching an index, From suggested topics select a

topic of your interest

. For example,

‘Genetically altered foods.’

Then click on either

‘View documents’

or

‘Narrow by related topic’

as needed. From the narrowed list, find a term you want to use and click

View.

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How to use Publication Search Tab

Publication search allows you to view the content of a particular publication. You can look for a specific publication or look at the articles in a particular issues of a magazine, journal or newspaper.

publications

begin searching… tab to

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Publication Search: Los Angeles Times

Example: If you enter into the search field

‘los angeles times.’

Two records should appear, choose one with the date range you are interested in.

Enter your Search terms here.

Select the appropriate date range.

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Publication Search: Los Angeles Times

Once selected, you can either search for articles on a specific topic within LA Times or browse the content of this publication by date.

Enter your Search terms here.

Or browse by date.

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Cite ProQuest articles

Remember to cite your sources based on MLA or APA style.

ProQuest can provide you with citations to your articles. -

Mark your selected articles

by checking the box next to the article on the Search Results page Click on “My Research." This will take you to the Marked List page.

MODULE 6 –

Cite ProQuest articles

Click on

Create your bibliography

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Cite ProQuest articles

Select

Citations only

and

MLA and

click depending on what you would like to do.

Download, Print

or

Email

MODULE 6 –

Cite ProQuest articles

ProQuest will generate a bibliography for you.

MODULE 7 –

Search Syntax

? - Wildcard :

Stands in for one character in or at the end of a word. Example: Searching for

educat??

will find articles that contain

"educated"

and

"educator."

But it won't find

"education,"

which contains more than two letters following "educat."

*

-

Truncation:

Stands in for any number of characters, including none, at the end of a word. Example: Searching for

comput*

will find articles that contain

"computer," "computerized,"

or

"computers." "…“ Quotation Marks:

Search words must appear exactly as typed. Example: Searching for

"business process"

will find business process articles, but not about the process of starting a business.

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Search Syntax

(..) Parentheses:

Whatever is inside the parentheses is searched first, then those results are searched with the words outside the parentheses. Example: Searching for

Federal Reserve OR (U.S. AND economic policy)

finds articles dealing with either the Federal Reserve or articles containing both the words "U.S." and "economic policy."

AND AND:

Both the search words before and after AND must appear in the article. AND narrows your search. Example: Searching for

El Nino AND Atlantic Ocean

will only find articles that mention both El Nino and Atlantic Ocean.

OR OR:

Either the words before or after OR can appear in the article. OR broadens your search.

Example:

Searching for

El Nino OR Atlantic Ocean

will find articles that mention either El Nino or Atlantic Ocean.

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Search Syntax

AND NOT

Ocean.

AND NOT:

The search words before AND NOT must appear in the article, but the words after must not. Example: Searching for

El Nino AND NOT Atlantic Ocean

gives you articles on El Nino, excluding those which also mention Atlantic

PRE/n Precede By:

The first search word must precede the second by

n

words to match. This is useful for phrase searching. Example: Searching for

U.S. PRE/5 economic policy

finds articles on many types of American economic policy, such as U.S. foreign aid economic policy, or U.S. wartime economic policy.

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Defining your Search Word or Phrase

When You Need More Articles

Try broadening your search by switching from

Search in: Citation and Abstract

to

Search in: Article Text

in Basic or Advanced Search Methods.

Uppercase or Lowercase Letters?

Search statements are not case sensitive. A search for

Federal Reserve Board

will find the same articles as

federal reserve board

in Basic, Advanced and Publication Search Methods.

Searching Two-Word Phrases

Two-word searches are treated as an exact phrase. A search for

Federal Reserve

will find articles in which the word

Federal

immediately precedes the word

Reserve

.

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Defining your Search Word or Phrase

About Longer Phrases

When you enter three or more words in the search field, they are searched in proximity. A search for

Federal Reserve system

will find articles in which the terms

Federal

,

Reserve

and

system

appear within a 250-word block.

Searching Exact Phrases

Use quotation marks to search exact phrases that are three or more words in length (for example

“Federal Reserve system”

.) Quotation marks also let you include Stop Words in your search. A search for

fire and brimstone

will be interpreted as asking ProQuest to find articles containing both the word fire and the word brimstone within a 250-word block. The search

“fire and brimstone”

will be interpreted as a command to find that exact phrase.

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Defining your Search Word or Phrase

These Adjacency Operators Limit Your Search

Adjacency operators let your control how closely the two search words are positioned to each other in the articles ProQuest finds. Using an adjacency operator limits your search results, because you’re constraining what constitutes a match. This Operator:

Within

education W/5 internet Articles where the first search term appears within 5 words of the second search term.

Not Within

mississippi NOT W/3 river Articles where the first search term does NOT appear within 3 words of the second search term.

Preceded by

european PRE/2 community Articles where the first search term appears 2 words before the second search term.

Within Doc

baseball W/Doc michael jordan Articles where both search terms appear somewhere in the document.

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Precedence and Parentheses

ProQuest interprets your search from left to right. However, it observes an order of precedence with respect to operators.

OR has precedence over AND

ProQuest gives the OR operator precedence over the AND operator. This means, if you enter

cat AND dog OR pet

, ProQuest interprets the search as

cat AND (dog OR pet)

. All the articles your search finds will contain the word cat, and will also contain the word dog, the word pet, or the words dog and pet.

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Precedence and Parentheses

Using Parentheses

You can change the order of precedence for your search by using parentheses. Surrounding terms with parentheses forces them to be evaluated together. To change the search in the previous example to find articles that contain both cat and dog within the same paragraph or articles that contain just pet, add parentheses:

(cat AND dog) OR pet

.

MODULE 8 –

Search Tips

:

Target Your Database

Instead of searching all available databases, limit your search to databases most likely to contain your information. For example, if you are searching for articles on ARTS topic, use the

ARTS Module

.

In Advanced mode click on

"Select Multiple Databases"

MODULE 8 –

Search Tips

:

Target Your Database

Click on "Clear All databases"

MODULE 8 –

Search Tips

:

Target Your Database

Find

PROQUEST RESEARCH LIBRARY

and select

ARTS MODULE

, then Click

CONTINUE

MODULE 8 –

Search Tips

:

Target Your Database

Looking for articles on Diego Rivera?

You can conduct artist’s name search: Diego Rivera