Narodna in univerzitetna knjižnica

Proquest Training, Ljubljana – April 2013

Tessa Heffernan

(tessa.heffernan@proquest.com)

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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platform and

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