USING PROQUEST NEWSPAPERS (ADVANCED)
Stop words
Include/Exclude Terms
Search for "stop words" or Boolean Operators
Phrase Searching
Truncation Wildcard
Exact Character Replacement Wildcard
Limiting to Full-Text Articles
Dates (Exact)
Date Ranges
Proximity Searching
Choosing a Search Method
| SEARCH FEATURE | TECHNIQUE | EXAMPLE |
| Stop words | see ProQuest "Help" for list of stop words | To find "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle" search as "Hand Rocks Cradle" |
| Include/Exclude Terms | and include terms in same paragraph or specified field w/doc include terms anywhere or include either or both terms and not exclude term In multi-boolean searching, terms connected by OR are searched first, then AND, then AND NOT "Nest" phrases using parenthesis: system searches everything in parenthesis first, then merges results with terms outside of parenthesis. |
BOSNIA AND BALKANS AND NOT
SERBIA articles in which Bosnia and the Balkans are mentioned in the same paragraph, but where Serbia is not mentioned anywhere. BOSNIA W/DOC BALKANS articles in which Bosnia and Balkans are mentioned somewhere in the text (BOSNIA OR CROATIA) AND SERBIA articles that contain either "Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia" or "Bosnia and Serbia" or "Croatia and Serbia" |
| Search for ‘stop words’ or boolean operators | "..." (quotation
marks) Enclose word in quotation marks |
sink "or" swim articles
containing the words |
| Phrase Searching | 2 terms: type phrase as you want it searched 3 or more terms: type words any order; Proquest searches each term individually within in the same paragraph. |
United States searches for the words together in sequence Hard Rock Cafe searches for "hard," "rock," and "cafe in the same paragraph but not necessarily in sequence. |
| Truncation Wildcard | ? (question mark) use one at end of term for unlimited character replacement |
ENVIRON? finds "environment" and "environmental" |
| Exact Character Wildcard | * (asterix) use one or more to replace exact number of characters |
PSYCH****Y finds "psychology," and "psychiatry" but not "psychotherapy" |
| Full-text articles only | At Results List, click "View Only Full Text" | |
| Dates (Exact) | Type field name followed by date
in parenthesis. Alphanumeric format only (as it appears in citation without punctuation), use: DA Alphanumeric OR numeric formats (incl. variants), use: PDN |
Date appears in citation
as: Apr 20, 1999 find by typing any of these: da(apr 20 1999) >omit commada(20 apr 1999) da(apr and 1999) da(apr) da(1999) OR pdn(apr 20, 1999) >incl. commapdn(april 20, 1999) >inc. commapdn(apr 1999 pdn(apr and 1999) pdn(4/20/99) pdn(4/20/1999) pdn(4/99) pdn(1999) |
| Date Ranges | Before a specific date: PDN(<mm/dd/yyyy) After a specific date: PDN(>mm/dd/yyyy) Between specific dates: PDN(>yyyy AND <yyyy) Note: for numeric dates, year may be in 2 or 4 digits, and date can be represented by year alone, month/year, or month/day/year |
PDN(<1994) searches for publication dates on or before December 31, 1994. PDN(>july 01, 1997) searches for dates after July 1, 1997PDN(>6/12/1994 AND <10/3/1995) searches for dates after June 12, 1994, and before October 3, 1995
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| Proximity Searching | Use to specify that words must be
in specific order and within specific number of words from each other. Consists of letter
and number: W# words must appear within # of each other NOT/w# words must be at least # apart from each other PRE/# first word(s) must precede second word(s) by no more than # |
sink w2 swim "sink" must appear within 2 or fewer words of "swim" sink not/w5 swim sink must not appear within 5 words of swim world pre/3 web finds ‘world web,’ ‘world wide web,’ and ‘world in the wide web’
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| TYPE OF SEARCH | WHAT IS SEARCHED | BENEFITS/LIMITS |
| Basic (Default) | Keywords in title, citation,
abstract OR entire article (default) OR any field specified |
Easy to use: simple keyword or
phrase searching or any field in record OR Very powerful capability for complex searches: can specify fields, dates, etc. using command language |
| Advanced | Words or phrases in field index selected | Guides you through field
searching using input form and pull-down menus. Not as flexible as command-language searching in Basic mode |
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