Use the
Advanced
Search screen to create
more complex ProQuest searches.
The big advantage with this
interface is all of the direct links to:
Subjects
(Thesaurus)
Classification
Codes
Stop Words
Operators
NAICS
The Advanced
Search can utilize all of
the search syntax or functionality available to ProQuest
databases, including Booleans, proximity, wildcards/truncation,
and nesting.
Usage
Enter words and/or a phrase in an
Entry
Field
The Default is
"and".
Select how you want to
limit the
search:
Select the Database
Date
Range (The database
actually consists of three separate databases divided by the
range of years that they cover.)
Select
Publication
Type. Typically you
will leave this on All,
though if you know that what you are searching for is in
Newspapers
or Reference
books, selecting those
specifically will speed the search.
Select to search in:
Citation
and Abstracts
This will provide a more
targeted search (Precision) because important words for a
subject are likely to be in the
Citation
or
Abstract.
Full
Text of Articles
This search will improve
the Recall of your search because many words and phrases
relating to a subject may be in the
Text
rather than in
the Citation
or
Abstract.
Field
Searching:
Several buttons provide you
with additional guides on limiting a search to:
Basic
Search Fields
Additional
Search Fields
Article
Type if you are
looking for a specific form of article
Examples: review,
column, editorial, feature.
Not only are the fields given,
but examples are provided as well.
You can
expand the
search by clicking
on:
Use
spelling variants
Use related
terminology
Select
Publication Date ranges to limit your Search::
This gives you much finer
control over the date range.
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