Using ProQuest at Clarion University of Pennsylvania

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Using ProQuest at Clarion University of
Pennsylvania

• ? Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Corene
  Glotfelty
• Created By
• Corene Glotfelty
• Reference Bibliographic Instruction Librarian
• Carlson Library
• Clarion University of Pennsylvania

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ProQuest Tutorial

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ProQuest

• ProQuest is a partially full-text database
  providing access to thousands of journal
  citations, abstracts, and full-text articles on
  topics of general academic interest. Partially
  full-text means that many of the articles are
  available online.
• It is a multidisciplinary database, meaning that
  it covers information in a wide variety of majors
  and fields of knowledge.
• It is particularly strong in the areas of
  business and the social sciences.

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ProQuest

• The ProQuest database is made up of individual
  modules
• ABI/INFORM Global- This is a business and
  management database. Find research on
  advertising, marketing, economics, human
  resources, finance, taxation, etc. as well as
  information on individual companies.
• Research Library Core
• Research Newspapers

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ProQuest

• Arts Module
• Business Module
• Childrens Module
• Education Module
• General Interest Module
• Health Module
• Humanities Module
• International Module

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ProQuest

• Law Module
• Military Module
• Multicultural Module
• Psychology Module
• Sciences Module
• Social Science Module
• Womens Interest Module
• You can choose to search these modules
  simultaneously or individually

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ProQuest

• To access ProQuest
• - point your web browser to http//www.clarion.ed
  u/library
• -Click on Databases
• -Click on ProQuest

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ProQuest

• If you try to access ProQuest from off-campus,
  you will be prompted for a library ID number.
  Access is only valid for Clarion University
  students, faculty and staff. Your library ID
  number is the first four letters of your last
  name followed by the last four digits of your
  social security number. Example carn6794
• If your last name is shorter than four letters,
  use your entire last name and the last four
  digits of your social security number as your
  library ID number.

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This Basic Search screen is the first screen you
see after entering the ProQuest database. From
this screen, you are automatically searching all
of the modules available in ProQuest. To choose
individual modules to search, click the
Collections icon at the top of the screen.
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At any time, you can access online help.
Check the boxes to the left of the module or
modules you wish to search, or select Search All
Collections to search all modules simultaneously.
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As you place your mouse over a module title, a
brief description of the module appears. This
description appears for the Education Module.
You can also click on View Titles to see the list
of periodicals indexed in that module.
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The Search Methods icon at the top of the screen
contains links to the different types of searches
available in ProQuest. The most commonly used
searches are the Basic Search, the Guided Search,
and the Publication Search. If you choose Basic
Search. . . . .
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. . . . you are presented with this screen. Enter
a word or phrase in the search box and click the
Search button.
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You can choose to search Current articles
(published from 1999 to the present), Backfile
articles (published from 1986 to 1998), or Deep
Backfile articles (published prior to 1986).
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You can choose to search in all types of
publications or you may limit your search to
newspaper articles or periodical articles.
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You can choose to search for your keywords in the
citations and abstracts of the articles only, or
you may choose to have your keywords searched in
the entire text of the actual article, where
available.
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We will run a search on school choice by typing
the phrase in the search box and clicking the
Search button.
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After you enter a search, you will be presented
with a results screen similar to this.
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We searched for articles mentioning school
choice. ProQuest found over 50 records
mentioning these search terms.
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The articles published most recently will be
presented first. The further down the list you
go, the older the articles will be.
There are 10 results listed per screen. To get
to the next set of results, click the Next button.
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For each item, this screen provides the title of
the article (in blue print), the authors name
(when available), the periodical/magazine/journal/
newspaper title, the date of publication, the
volume/issue numbers, and the page numbers.
Click on the article title to get an abstract (or
summary) of the article.
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This is an example of a full record screen.
The citation information is repeated, and an
abstract is provided. The search terms that we
entered are in red print.
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When scanning through the result list, you notice
that there are various icons associated with each
citation.
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This icon indicates the availability of a
citation and/or abstract (summary) of the
article. Click on the icon to access the summary.
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This icon indicates the availability of a
full-text article. This means that, in
addition to a citation and abstract, the entire
article is also available online. Click on the
icon to access the full-text of the article.
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This icon indicates the availability of a
full-text article with graphics. The graphics
can be charts, graphs or tables as well as
photographs. Click on the icon to access the
full-text of the article with the visual
materials.
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This icon indicates the availability of a scanned
page image of the article. The file can be
accessed using Adobe Acrobat. If Adobe is loaded
on your PC, you can click on the icon to access
the scanned page image. Adobe can be downloaded
for free by visiting http//www.adobe.com/.
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On the results screen, you notice that there are
check boxes to the left of each article. You can
check, or mark the citations of interest to you.
Then, click the Marked List Durable Links
option for printing, e-mailing, or downloading
options.
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We are then given this screen where the marked
items are displayed. If you desire e-mail
delivery of your citations and/or full-text
articles, click on E-mail Articles.
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Enter your e-mail address in the box provided.
If you wish, you may also supply text for the
subject line and additional comments or notes.
Then click Send Email.
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You will see an e-mail confirmation screen,
letting you know that your request has been
processed. Click on Marked List Durable Links
again to return to your marked list of citations.
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Returning to the Marked List screen, we see an
option for printing the citation list. If you
click on this option, you will be given options
to format the citations for printing. Be very
cautious when using the print option, as you
will be presented with your CITATION LIST ONLY.
Any abstracts and/or full-text articles will not
be formatted for you. If you want to print the
full-text of articles, you must either use the
previously mentioned e-mail option, or must
access each desired article individually and
THEN choose the Print Artricle option.
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We also have an option for exporting
(downloading) the citation list. If you click
on this option, you will be given options to
format the citations for downloading. Again,
when using this option, you will be presented
with your CITATION LIST ONLY. Any abstracts
and/or full-text articles will not be formatted
for you.
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The Guided Search screen is similar to the Basic
Search screen. Here, multiple lines are provided
so that you may combine terms for your search.
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On the Guided Search screen, you may limit
your search to articles and/or citations of a
particular article type such as commentaries,
editorials, feature articles, interviews, poetry,
recipes, speeches, statistics, art/exhibit reviews
, book reviews, movie reviews, performance
reviews, and product reviews. If you wish, you
can leave this setting on the default of All.
This will return the broadest range of results to
you.
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On the Guided Search screen, you may also limit
your search to articles and/or citations of a
particular publication type such as periodical
articles or newspaper articles. If you wish,
you can leave this setting on the default
of All. This will return the broadest range of
results to you.
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You may also limit your search to
articles published within a certain date range.
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Following each search box is an option to limit
your search terms to a particular field. The
default setting is All Basic Search Fields,
meaning that your designated terms could appear
almost anywhere within the record. However, if
you desire, you could choose to limit your search
only to the article title field, the subject
field, the author field, etc. For the broadest
possible search, leave this on the default
setting of All Basic Search Fields. One
particularly useful option is to limit your
search to a certain publication name. By using
this option, you can restrict your search to a
particular magazine, journal, or newspaper (if it
is indexed in ProQuest).
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In between each text entry box, you can
choose AND, OR, or NOT. These are called
Boolean operators, and they help you to
narrow/refine or broaden your search. The
following slides explain each of these operators.
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AND Narrows Your Search
AND
school choice
Canada
When running a search on school choice and
Canada, the database will first look for all
records mentioning school choice. It will then
look for all of the records mentioning Canada.
Finally, you will be presented ONLY with the
items that mention both school choice and Canada.
The AND operator allows you to refine and limit
your search.
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OR Broadens Your Search
school choice
OR
vouchers
When running a search on school choice or
vouchers, the database will look for all records
mentioning school choice, all of the records
mentioning vouchers, and will present you with
all of the resulting records. The resulting
records will mention at least one of the two
terms that you entered. The OR operator allows
you to broaden and expand your search. For this
reason, it is good to use with synonyms or
related terms, so that you are accessing the
broadest amount of information possible for your
topic.
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NOT Excludes Elements From Your Search
South America
NOT
Brazil
When running a search on South America NOT
Brazil, the database will look for all records
mentioning South America, but will exclude any
items that also mention Brazil. The NOT
operator allows you to exclude an idea or term
from your search. This operator is used far
less commonly than AND and OR.
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In this example, we are searching for the word
Microsoft in the article title field AND the
word Gates in the article title field AND the
word stock anywhere within the record.
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The resulting records meet our limit
qualifications.
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The Publication search screen offers you
an option to look for articles by journal, or
publication. If you would like to see if a
particular journal is indexed in ProQuest, type
the title or the first few words of the title in
the search box and click the Search button.
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If the desired journal is indexed in ProQuest, it
will appear in the result list as a link. Then,
click on the title to see links for the available
issues.
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Links are provided for the most current issues
first. You can look for issues in the Backfile
(1986-1998) or the Deep Backfile (prior to
1986). Click on an issue date to see the
articles associated with that issue.
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There are 47 articles from the August 19, 2002
issue of Newsweek.
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Additional Searches

• The searches discussed on the following screens
  are also available in ProQuest, but are usually
  not used as often as the Basic search, the Guided
  search, and the Publication search.

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Natural Language Search

• Natural Language searching allows you to query
  the database using words, phrases, or even
  complete sentences.
• The results of a query are presented in ranked
  order with the most relevant articles being
  presented first.
• A result can be found even if the record does not
  contain all of the words from the query.

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Natural Language Search

• The more words that appear in the article, the
  more relevant the record is and the closer to the
  top of the result list it will appear.
• For example, type rising medical costs in the
  United States to find articles that contain
  either rising, medical, costs, United or
  States.
• Prepositions such as in and articles such as
  the are excluded from the search.

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Advanced Search

• This option allows searching via a command line
  interface and is used by expert ProQuest
  searchers.
• See ProQuests online help for an explanation of
  advanced searching.

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Topic Finder

• The topic finder allows you to browse for
  relevant articles. To access this feature, click
  on the Topic Finder icon at the top of the search
  screen.
• Very broad topic areas are presented. As each
  topic is selected, more specific and narrow
  categories are presented. The end result of your
  search is a result list of citations and/or full
  text articles.

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Browse Lists

• The browse lists option allows you to run quick
  searches on personal names, locations places,
  companies, and subjects. To access this feature,
  click on the browse lists icon at the top of the
  search screen.
• Browse the alphabetical lists for topics of
  interest and follow the links provided to execute
  a search.
• The end result of your search is a result list of
  citations and/or full text articles.

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ProQuest Search Assistance

• ProQuest offers online help. While searching
  ProQuest, click the Help link at any time for
  tips.
• If you have additional questions about searching
  in ProQuest, please visit a reference librarian
  in Carlson Library or call the reference desk at
  814-393-2490 for more detailed assistance.