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offers essential research content, such
as past and current issues of
The
New York Times and The Wall Street Journal,
and access to thousands of consumer
and
scholarly periodicals and dissertations.
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You
will begin your search from this page.
By default, all the databases are selected
for you when you access this page. Here
you can select or clear all the databases. Clearing
all the databases is for those of you
who only want to search a limited number
of databases. It's much easier
to click on one button to deselect and
then reselect the databases you want,
as opposed to going down the list and
deselecting each one individually.
Here is a sample of what is available
to you in ProQuest.
–– Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW)
–– A comprehensive full
text database of the newspapers, magazines
and journals
of the ethnic, minority and native
press.
–– National Newspapers (5)
–– Coverage of five major
newspapers, including The New York
Times, Wall Street
Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles
Times and the Christian Science Monitor.
Note: the Los Angeles Times must be
added to this bundle separately per
publisher agreement using the associated
check box below.
–– Business Module ––
Search periodicals on business subjects
such as economics, personal finance,
marketing, and more in this ProQuest
Research Library module.
–– Psychology Module
–– Search periodicals on
psychology subjects such as human development,
learning, psychiatry, and more in this
ProQuest
Research Library module.
–– Women's Interest Module
–– Search periodicals on
women's interest subjects such as feminism,
history,
political science, social science,
and general interest as they relate
to women's issues in this ProQuest
Research Library
module.
Not sure which ones to select or deselect? Try
them all. Then click continue.
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After
you have chosen which databases to search,
this is where you will actually
begin your search.
Here is where you will start by typing
your search terms. Put specific
terms into the search box to get relevant
results. This is also where
you will decide whether you want full-text
articles, and scholarly journals (including
peer reviewed). This all depends
on whether your assignment calls for academic
resources or general magazines.
If your assignment is to find abstracts,
then there is no need to choose full-text. On
the other hand, if you need the entire
article, you must choose full-text. This
will eliminate any non-full-text article
from your results.
A scholarly or peer article is one that
a scholar or researcher has written. For
example, think of the Journal of American
Medical Association as opposed to People
Magazine. The articles that
you find in JAMA would be very different
from People Magazine. People
Magazine is written for everyone, where
JAMA is directed toward people who would
understand medical terms and have studied
the sciences.
Peer-reviewed simply means that prior
to publication, peers of the author have
reviewed the article. So if
the Journal of American Medical Association
were peer reviewed, any article published
would first have been reviewed by a panel
of experts in the subject the article
is about. If the article is
about brain cancer, the peers would probably
be Ph.D.'s and M.D.'s and nurses and others
experts who do research and treat patients
for brain cancer. A child psychologist
who specializes in child schizophrenia
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For
those of you who want to review what
all is available before settling down
on a topic, ProQuest allows you to
browse
by topic! Above the search
box is a tools menu. Click
on Browse Topics. The menu
gives you an alphabetical list of all
the major topics covered by ProQuest.
You
can go through all the topics or narrow
the choices by clicking on the tabs. For
example, only look through companies if
you know that the information you are
looking for is information about a company
and not a person. If you want
to see everything that is available, then
stay with All Topics.
When
you see the topic you want, click on "Add
to Search."
See
the next screen shot to see what happens.
These
topics were added into the search box
for you! Now all you need to
do is click on Search if you want. OR
add more search terms. And
if you want, you can choose Full-Text
and / or Scholarly Journals. |
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Here's
a tip to narrow your search.
If we go back to that "Browse Topics"
feature again, you can get lots of help
in your search.
By clicking on "Narrow by Related Topic,"
you will get many more topics that are
related to the topic of Madonna and a
few that maybe you did not think of.
Another neat trick is to use the thesaurus
to look up terms that are also used in
addition to your topic.
Using a popular research topic, capital
punishment, we find that by clicking on
"View Thesaurus Entry," we are able to
retrieve synonyms, broader terms, narrower
terms and related terms.
This should surely help you narrow or
broaden your search if you are stuck.
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After doing a search using the "Browse
Topic" feature, we decided to search
for articles on Madonna the person, shown
as PER(Madonna Madonna Louise Ciccone)
and added a subject shown as SUB(Musical
criticism). Six articles were
found using these search terms. This
was done without clicking on "Full text
articles only" or "Scholarly journals,
including peer-reviewed." "Full
text articles only" only produced three
articles, while choosing both "Full text
articles only" and "Scholarly journals,
including peer-reviewed" resulted in 1
article. This result will be
true of almost any subject that you search
for. You will receive less
results by choosing full-text articles
only and scholarly journals, including
peer-reviewed. |
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Now
that we have six musical criticisms of Madonna's
music, let's say that only
three of the articles pertain to our
research. We
can mark the articles we want to keep
by clicking on the boxes on the right
of each title. Next we can
always go to that "Marked List" tab
to retrieve all articles that we have
marked. This
feature will also tell you how many articles
have been marked, if you need to keep
track. Please keep in mind
that the maximum number of articles
you
can mark and save is 50. This feature
will also allow you to do the following:
–– Print
your bibliography
–– Email
marked articles.
–– Export
citations into EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks
or Reference Manager.
First
we have a screen shot of what the Marked
List looks like. In the upper
left hand corner, you see the links to
print, email and export. We
will concentrate on printing and emailing.
When
you click on "Print your bibliography",
you get this screen shot.
You
have a few choices to make in printing
your bibliography. First, you
must choose the format: citations only
or article summaries? Then the citation
style.
Format: –– Citations
only –– Article
Summaries (citation and abstract)
Citation
style:
–– ProQuest
Standard - citations shown as they appear
in the ProQuest interface.
–– AMA
–– recommended for medicine, health,
and biological sciences.
–– APA
–– recommended for psychology, education,
and other social sciences.
–– Chicago/Turabian:
Author-Date - references list with abbreviated
author names followed by dates.
–– Chicago/Turabian:
Humanities –– bibliography using footnotes
and endnotes, full author names.
–– MLA
–– recommended for literature, arts,
and humanities.
You
have a few choices to make in emailing
yourself the articles. Before
we start with that, please make sure you
fill out everything, and that you type
everything out correctly. If
you don't type out your email address
correctly, your articles will never get
to you!
Now,
when you email yourself these articles
you can send yourself: Article summaries
(citation and abstract), Article full
text (if available) - no graphics included
or Page/Article image - PDF (if available.) If
you choose the PDF format, please note
that you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader
to open and read this kind of a document. The
reader is provided for free by Adobe at
http://www.adobe.com
Next
you need to decide whether to send yourself
the email as Plain text (compatible with
all email programs) OR HTML (not supported
by all email programs). This depends on
your email program. |
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