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• Brief introduction to the ProQuest platform

• Basic search techniques

• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global

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• Search Databases

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• Queries with more than one word separated by space

are searched with an implicit AND

• advertising campaigns = advertising AND campaigns

• Use quotation marks (“”) to search for Exact phrases

“advertising campaigns”

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Linguistics – Variants detecting defaults

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Ex: mouse will also produce hits on mice.

tall will also produce hits on tallest.

– If you do not want Lemmatization to be applied to your search, enter your term in quotation marks “ ”.

Boolean / Logical Operators

OR either term must be present

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Boolean / Logical Operators

AND both / all terms must be present

Ex: Web AND Browser

NOTE:

AND is implied between terms separated by a space

CANCER RESEARCH CANCER AND RESEARCH

Boolean / Logical Operators

NOT eliminates hits with the term after NOT operator

Ex: railway NOT strike

Beware! ENERGY NOT NUCLEAR will eliminate

“Alternatives to Nuclear Energy.”

Truncation & Wildcard

* The Truncation character asterisk is used to replace one or more characters.

It can be used at the end (right-hand) or in the middle of a word.

Example: econom* will find economy, economics, economical….

? The Wildcard character question mark is used to replace any single character,

either inside or at right end of the word.

Example: t?re will find tire, tyre, tore, etc.

adv??? will find advice, advert, but not advance or advertise

Proximity and Adjacency Operators

• PRE/# or p/#

Finds documents where 2 or more words are separated by a maximum nr of words

of each other in the specified order.

Ex: “business management” PRE/5 education

• NEAR/# or n/#

Finds documents where 2 or more words are separated by a maximum nr of words

of each other in any order (either before or after).

Ex: computer NEAR/3 careers

Please Note:

• For both, if you do not specify a number, a default value of 4 words will be applied.

• If either must be used as a search term, use Exact quotes: “pre” or “near”

Construct Your Search

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Nesting & Order of Processing

Nesting (parentheses) can be used to group terms

• Group terms to change the default order or processing

((STRUCTURAL OR URBAN) NEAR/5 DESIGN) AND ((FLOOD

OR LANDSLIDE) NOT (EARTHQUAKE OR TSUNAMI))

Default Order of Processing:

PRE

NEAR

AND

OR

NOT

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• Field codes are available

• Some standard fields are indexed in all databases

TI Title

AB Abstract

AU Author

PUB Publication Title

SU Subject

LA Language

• Check the LibGuides for each Database for a list of specific Searchable

Fields

Field Indexing

How to limit by field codes

• List the field code(s) first

• Enclose search terms in parentheses

TI(CANCER RESEARCH)

YR(2005-2008)

• It is possible to “Stack” multiple field codes with commas

TI,AB,SU(AGRICULTUR* NEAR/3 FERTILIZ*)

Field Indexing

How can I identify the field codes available for each database?

• Common Field Codes and Database Specific Field codes for major files

listed in the Online Help

• Field Codes link in Advanced Search or Command Line leads you to the

Online Help

• drop-down menu in Advanced Search

• Usually shows the most frequently used, not necessarily ALL the searchable fields.

• Searchable Fields section of the Libguides http://proquest.libguides.com

Field Indexing - help

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• Ideas for Research: Check if your

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