Scope

• 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.
  • Notice the date format: 12/31/2001