ProQuest Quick Reference Guide
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ProQuest Platform’s easy navigation and simple search options allow you to find the relevant information that you need veryquickly.
（＊Your screen may look different depending on the types of databases your library subscribes）

Basic Search

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➊ Search Types
Please select your search type from Basic
Search/Advanced/Publications/Browse.

➋ Interface Language
There are as many as 17 language options
to select.

➎➌ Search Box
Please enter your keyword for search.

➍ Full Text / Peer Reviewed
You can filter your search by ticking theboxes.

➎ Search Subject Areas
You can define your search by your subjectarea.

Advanced Search➊ Search Boxes
You can search with a multiple number ofkeywords.

➊➋➌➋ Setting Search Fields➍

You can set different search fields for yourkeywords.

➎➌ Add A Row
You can add or delete search boxes.
The maximum number of rows is 10.

➍ Publication Date
You can set the specific publication dates
for your search.

➏➎ More Search Options
There are further search options available
such as Source type / Document Type /Language/ Sort results by / Items per pageetc.
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You can save the search strategies that you created in Advanced Search from thesearch result page. You need to create the My Research account explained in P.4.
Please click [Clear form] button when you want to clear the previous search strategy
and create a new one.

➏ Duplicates
Tick the box if for displaying all theduplicate documents.

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Search Tips －Operators
AND: Look for documents that contain all of your words or phrases.
e.g. design AND furniture -> Search records that contain both ‘design’ and ‘furniture’.
OR: Look for documents that contain any of your words or phrases.
e.g. design OR furniture -> Search records that contain ‘design’ or ‘furniture’.
AND NOT: Look for documents that contain one of your search terms, but not the other.
e.g. design AND NOT furniture ->Search records that contain ‘design’, but not ‘furniture’.
Search Tips －Wildcards and truncation*（asterisk）------You can widen your search by putting *at the end of your keyword.
e.g. econom* -> Look for documents with economics, economic, economy, economist etc.
? ------When you are not sure about spelling, you can place ‘?’ instead of a character. You can place ‘?’ for more than just 1 letter.
e.g. wom?n -> Look for documents with woman, women etc.
“” ------Exact-phrase searches can be conducted by placing the double-quotation market both before and after your phrase.

e.g. “ world economic conditions” look for documents with the three keywords as phrase.
（）------ The condition bracketed with （） is prioritized than the other condition(s) set.

e.g. (british OR english) AND music  This sample search strategy looks for documents that contain firstly ‘british’ or english’, and secondly contain‘music’.
british or english and music  This search strategy in contrast looks for documents that contact ‘british’, or both ‘english’ and ‘music’.

Search with Thesaurus➊ Access to Thesaurus
Go to Advanced Search, and click Thesaurus above the searchboxes.

➊➋ Search Terms
Enter your keyword into the search box.

➋➌ Select the subject term that fits your search.
Some terms have , ,which shows the term’s definition andrelated terms. Tick the boxes that you wish to add to yoursearch strategy.

➌➍ Check the selected terms
Display the checked terms in ➌ , and you can edit yourselection of the terms here.

➎➎ Adding the selected terms to your search
Select the operator (OR, AND & NOT) and add to search.

➍➊ Look for a particular title

Publication Search

You can search with the search box and thedrop-down option for a particular title.

➋ Access a particular title➊

Click the title from the search results in ➊and open its page.

➌ Search within the texts of aparticular title➋➌➍

2Use the search box within the particular title’s
page from ➋ and you can conduct
keyword search.

➍ Browse specific issues frompublication year
You can access a specific issue from aspecific year.

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Search Result➍➋ Adding Keyword(s)➋➊➊ Narrowing Results
You can narrow your results by various options. Select theoption of your preference for further filtering. You can selectmultiple options.

You can easily add more keywords to narrow down the results.
Click [Search within], enter the keyword to the displayed searchbox and execute your search.

➍➌➌ Preview
With [Preview], you can check each record’s abstract, index,
database etc. without opening the record.

➍➍ Check Box
You can execute with multiple records printing, e-mailing,creating bibliography etc. at once. It is recommended tocheck the box of the results that interest you so that you do not
lose them while browsing.
(*Please also refer to “Saving the Search Records” on P. 4.)

Full Text Page
➊ Changing Formats
Other formats available for the document are displayed here.
Please click the one of your choice.
（*Availability of formats differs with each record.）➊➋ Keyword Navigation on Full Text➌➍[Turns on search term navigation] allows you to jump to thenext page where the keyword is. Navigate with
thatare displayed both before and after the keywords.

➌ References➋➎

If ProQuest covers any documents that are listed in thebibliography, they are displayed here. You can open themalso by clicking the hyperlinks.

➋➍ Cited by & Documents with shared references＊＊

Cited by： The documents that citied the opened
document can be listed here. This function can help
you find other related researches efficiently.
Documents with Shared References： If there aredocuments that have the same reference within thebibliography and are available within ProQuest, those
documents are listed here. This is a usefulfunctionality for looking for similar documents.

➎ Search with indexing terms
You can search other documents with subject terms indexedin the opened document. Please tick the box of terms thatyou would like to search with.

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Recent Searches➊ Viewing Used Databases
You can display the list of databases that wereused in each search. The other filtering options
used are also shown here.

➌➋➊➋ Actions
Options, such as saving the search, editing,setting alerts etc. are available here.
➌ Export All Searches
You can export the displayed search strategies
as PDF, RTF, HTML formats. Please tick theboxes for results you wish to export.

Saving the Searched Records➊➋

You can save searched records with tickedboxes at once. You can also apply otheroptions to the results.
➊ Search Results Output - 1
You can send the ticked records via e-mail.
Printing and saving with the same citation style
are also available.
➋ Search Results Output - 2
You can export the ticked records’ data in
different formats.
＜Available Export Formats＞
HTML / PDF / RTF / RIS / Text only / RefWorks
and other citation management tools

My Research
My Research is your personal account within theProQuest database, which allows you to saveyour search results and strategies, which areuseful for your continuing research.
➊ Creating My Research AccountClick [My Research] or [Save to My Research] anddisplay the Sign-in page.
Click [Create a My Research Account], and please
fill in the required information to create youraccount.

➋➊➋ Log in to My Research
Click [My Research] or {Save to My Research},and enter your username and password to sign in.

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