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VIDEO TUTORIAL:
WHAT IT IS:
ProQuest is the library’s largest collection of multidisciplinary academic research databases, consisting of over 45 different research-focused databases containing millions of articles.
WHAT IT DOES:
ProQuest specializes in academic research. Use it to find:
-Scholarly articles
-Magazine articles
-News articles
DATABASES INCLUDED FOR PROQUEST:
https://libguides.madisonville.kctcs.edu/az.php?v=1508
HOW TO SEARCH:
Use the search box to conduct a basic search. You can click on the checkboxes below the search box to set a Full Text search (recommended, to eliminate any non-full text articles from your search results), and/or Peer Reviewed. This will search only articles from scholarly journals.
Tips: Use “Or,” “And,” and “Not” to get different results.
School OR violence will get you all results containing “school” or “violence.” More results.
School AND violence will get you all results containing “school” and “violence.” Fewer results.
School NOT violence will get you all results containing “school” WITHOUT “violence.” Even fewer results.
“School violence” in quotation marks will treat your search as a phrase – both words together.
SEARCH RESULTS:
Search results are sorted by relevance. The database will try and find articles that contain your search terms in the articles’ titles. You can further limit your search results by selecting a different facet on the left side:
Source type:
By default, you will see a mixture of scholarly journals, magazines, news articles, etc. You can select which publication type/source type you want in your search results.
Publication date:
Choose a range of dates for your search results. For example, you can show results published from the last 12 months, last 5 years, last 10 years, etc.
Subject:
Each article in the database has been “tagged” with different subject headings. For example, an article about a recent school shooting might be tagged with “school violence,” “school shooting,” “school bullying,” etc. You can click relevant subjects and that will pull out all the articles from your search results that are tagged with that specific subject heading.
READING AN ARTICLE
Clicking on an article will open it in either Full-text, or PDF (using Adobe Reader). Up on the right side, you can download the article, email the article to yourself, and/or print it out. Click on “Cite” to access your bibliographic citation for the article. You would cite the article using MLA if it is for English 101 or English 102, and you would cite the article using APA for other classes.
Click here for additional product support:
https://08102wxqj-y-https-search-proquest-com.libproxy.kctcs.edu/help/academic/webframe.html?Basic_Search.html#Help_Overview.html
If you need help, contact the library at mcclibrary@kctcs.edu.