ProquestPreformingASearch

Proquest: How to Perform a Search

Proquest is divided into 3 Sections that all focus on different topics.

1. E Library Curriculam Edition E Library has a basic search and an advanced search that have some of the same features.
 * Basic Search
 * In Basic Search, you are able to check off what kind of reference you are searching for.
 * For example, you can check of newspaper if you are looking for a newspaper reference and you can also do the same for magazines, pictures, audio and video, etc...
 * Advanced Search
 * Advanced Search is similar to the Basic Search but has some differences. For example, you can choose a specific author, date range, document language, etc... to search for.
 * Sample Search: for our sample search we did capital punishment and we got about 3000 results total.

2. History Study Center Just like E library, History Study Center has a basic search and an advanced search that have some of the same features. 3. Proquest Learning: Literature
 * Basic Search
 * In the Basic Search, you can search for any history reference and choose exactly what kind of document or source you are looking for. For example, you can search for study units, historical documents, journals, etc...
 * Advanced Search
 * The Advanced Search is similar to the basic search but has a feature where you can choose exactly what kind of multimedia, encyclopedia, or journal reference you want.
 * For Example, if you want to find info from an exact encyclopedia, you can check off the title of the encyclopedia and easily search through that specific book.
 * Sample Search: For our sample search, we did capital punishment and got 1300 results total
 * 3 for study units
 * 108 for historical documents
 * 187 for maps and references
 * 2 for multimedia
 * 1000 for journals
 * Proquest Learning: Literature has a search where you can type in exactly what you are looking for on their quick search or you can search for authors, references, literary works, criticism, and multimedia.
 * Sample Search: For our sample search we did capital punishment and got 106 results total
 * 2 for literary works
 * 100 for criticisom
 * 4 for reference