Thursday, February 14, 2013

Lesson 4 - Proquest

The basic search that I did was on animal cruelty. It was interesting to see how many articles I could find on this subject. There were articles about the laws concerning this subject as well as psychological reasons that this might happen. If you are doing research there are quite a few related subjects to search and depending on your search you can pick your source such as scholarly journals, newspapers or magazines. I also liked that you could sort by relevance. A very good site to find full text articles.

I have enjoyed looking at some of the other posts. I did not look at all of them but checked out a few. You can get more ideas just by looking at these.

When looking at publications, I did a search for Publishers weekly. You can search certain issues and anything from fiction to non-fiction & so on in this publication. If we were missing an issue you would be able to find it here. I just had an ILL request today for a library journal in which our copy was missing. I could have found it here. Nice to know for the future.

1 comment:

  1. Yes, Shelly, ProQuest is a good source for those missing issues or missing pages. You have discovered the depth & breadth of ProQuest's holdings. It has lots of limiters & "suggested topics" to help hone your search, too. Keep this one in mind for adult-level information for your patrons--and for missing issues, too. Thanks for your comments!

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