Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica
Proquest Training, Ljubljana – April 2013
Tessa Heffernan
Agenda
Advanced Searching
Proquest Central
Proquest Dissertations
Live Demo
Discussion
Proquest Training Plan follow up for NUK
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ADVANCED SEARCHING:
Beyond the Single Search Box
Training Agenda
A review of advanced search tips
Advanced Search and Command Line search forms
Formatting a search using field codes, proximity operators and
special characters
Using ProQuest Smart Search to identify relevant subject terms
Search results – faceted search options, document preview and
more
ebrary e-book discovery
Using the Thesaurus to locate appropriate subject terms
Questions?
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Highlight Overview for the ProQuest
Platform
Search
• New Unified Platform
• New Cross-Search Tiers
• Autocomplete
• Subject Areas
• Mobile Device Support
Find
• Expanded SmartSearch Functionality
• Expandable Abstracts
• Article Preview
• Thumbnail Views
• Visual Date Trail
• Faceted Navigation
• KWIC
• Reference Linking
Use
• My Research Accounts
• Cite This and other tools
• “Other Items You Might Like”
• Translation Capabilities
Share
• Bookmarks (social network posting)
• Tags
• Shared Lists
• Public Profiles
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Search Tips
Queries with more than one word separated by space such as
advertising campaigns are searched with an implicit AND.
Use quotation marks (“”) to search for Exact phrases
“advertising campaigns”
Truncation characters, operators and specific search fields are
available to focus queries.
If a specific field is not entered with a search query, the default is
to search Anywhere (all indexed fields of the full record plus
the full-text from ProQuest) or Anywhere except full text (all
indexed fields of the full record, but not including the full-text).
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Linguistics – Variants detecting
defaults
Spelling variants
enable the search engine to recognize and match differences in
spelling between
American and British versions of a given word
Ex: humor vs. humour
English and older English versions of a given word
Ex: sing and syng
Lemmatization
enables the search engine to recognize and match different
grammatical forms of a word such as with plurals and
adjectives. 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 “ ”.
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Changing Default Search Settings
The default settings
Anywhere vs. Anywhere except full text,
Spelling variants
Lemmatization
are determined by your ProQuest administrator
the defaults can also be activated/deactivated in the account
preferences section of your My Research account.
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Truncation, Wildcard, and Hyphen
* The Truncation character asterisk is used to replace one or
more characters. It can be used at the beginning (left-hand), 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 the left or right end of the
word.
Example: t?re will find tire, tyre, tore, etc.
adv??? will find advice, advert, but not advance or advertise
- Use a hyphen to indicate a range when searching numerical
fields, such as Publication date.
Example: YR(2005-2008)
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Proximity and Adjacency Operators
PRE/# OR p/#
Finds documents where 2 or more words are within some number 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 within some number of words of each other in any order (either before or after).
Ex: computer NEAR/3 careers
Please Note:
For both operators, 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”
P/0 will search for the pure adjacency, with linguistics on.
Ex: advertising P/0 campaigns
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Proximity and Adjacency Operators
EXACT or .x
Used primarily with specific fields, like Subject,
and name fields, such as AU or PUB
EXACT looks for your exact search term in its entirety,
rather than as part of a larger term. Linguistics are off.
Ex: SU.EXACT(“higher education”)
Will retrieve the full subject term "higher education"
but will not retrieve the subject terms “higher education
administration”, “women in higher education”, etc.
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Limiting the search to specific fields
• Field codes are available
• Some standard fields are indexed in all databases
TI Title
AB Abstract
AU Author
PUB Publication Title
DTYPE Document Type
Field Indexing
How to limit by field codes
• List the field code(s) first
• Enclose search terms in parentheses
TI(CANCER RESEARCH)
• It is possible to “Stack” multiple field codes with commas
TI,AB,SU(AGRICULTUR* NEAR/3 FERTILIZ*)
Field Indexing
What fields am I searching when I enter a free text term?
• Default search is “All fields + text” Title, Abstract, Text (full text if
available)
• Terms (all subject and index terms)
• All name fields (Author, Publication Title, Location etc)
• Tags (unique keywords added by user) - All other fields
• TIP! To avoid hits in extraneous fields, we suggest
TI,AB,SU,IF(SEARCH TERMS) for Bibliographic
databases
TI,AB,TX,SU,IF,LP,CC(SEARCH TERMS) for Fulltext databases
TI,TX(SEARCH TERMS) for
Field Indexing
Additional tips for specific fields
• It is possible to use the EXACT with such fields as Subjects (controlled terms)
and Name fields (Author, Company, Publication Title)
• PUB(“JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS”) also retrieves
The Journal of Agricultural Economics
Journal of Agricultural Economics and Industry
• PUB.EXACT(“JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS”) retrieves only
Journal of Agricultural Economics
• Use EXACT with caution as you could lose relevant hits - note the different
beaviour from most precise to most comprehensive – WHY?
• When in doubt use the Look-up List
Field Indexing
PUB.EXACT(“JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS”) ALL Non-Patent files 7848* PUB(“JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS”) ALL Non-Patent files 87165*
PUB(JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS) ALL Non-Patent files 102459*
Recommendations for Name Searching
Author AU = all authors FAU = first author AU(“pietsch h”)
Company Name CO ORG PA CO(“Systems Inc”)
Sure of exact citation?
AU.Exact(“Donahue W A*”) CO.Exact(“Systems inc”)
Unsure? Use proximity operators:
AU(Donahue p/0 (W* p/0 A* OR WA*)) PA(Shanghai n/2 Univ*)
The most comprehensive search is:
AU(Donahue W* A*) PA(Shanghai Univ*) Why?
When in doubt use the Look-up Lists
Field Indexing
Date Searching
Date fields accept both YYYY and
YYYYMMDD
Publication Date PD – Date of publication of original document
PD(2012) PD(>2009)
PD(>=20121231) PD(2008-2013)
Field Indexing
Searching for EU
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