How-to-use Tutorial for Proquest, Global Issues in Context, Opposing Viewpoints, The Boolean Machine, Google Scholar & Sweet Search

1. ProQuest
Don’t hesitate to use
“search tips” or Help! Lots
of good information
there!

2. ProQuest Advanced Search
Searches for related content – copy a section from a
document to find “similar”
Use subject area searches as
well to narrow & streamline
results
Narrow
sources
by type

3. Health Sciences and Nursing Subject Search:
Plastic AND Surgery
Check related search terms to narrow
results
Narrow results further

4. Opposing Viewpoints

5. Search by Issue or Geographic Region
Subject specific searches
Video & podcasts

6. Quick Links
Quick links for tools

7. Search by Country or
continent
Search by Subject
Videos &
Podcasts
Current Events

8. Search Query's
• How do you start a search?
• Jot down search terms before going to the
computer.
• Select the major concepts to be searched.
• Use the database suggestions to find other or
related search terms.

9. The Boolean Machine
by Rockwell Schrock
• AND
• OR
• NOT
Try This Yourself

10. Here’s how it works
AND
OR
NOT
When using AND, you only receive pages including
both of your search terms, though not necessarily
next to one another.
When using OR, you receive pages containing either
one or both of your search terms.
The NOT operator is used to find pages including
only the first term and excluding the second term.
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Boolean Machine courtesy of Rockwell Schrock http://kathyschrock.net/rbs3k/boolean/

13. Add ons –
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