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Introduction to ProQuest and Ebook Central Platforms Ali Nazari-Nouri Training and Consulting Partner
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Agenda: ProQuest Platform Single search box, subject areas and product start pages Search results – faceted search options, document preview and more Right tools at the right time – spell check, cite, export and more Advanced search My Research Ebook Central
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ProQuest Platform - Search Tips Use quotation marks (“”) to search for exact phrases. Two word queries such as advertising campaigns are searched as an implicit AND. Use special characters and operators to focus queries. If a specific field is not entered with a search query, the default is to search across all indexed fields of the full record plus the full-text from ProQuest.
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Search Tips cont… Spelling variants enable the search engine to recognize and match differences in spelling between American and British versions of a given word such as humor vs. humour and between English and older English versions of a given word such as sing and syng when appropriate. Lemmatization enables the search engine to recognize and match different grammatical forms of a word such as with plurals and adjectives. For example, searching for mouse will also produce hits on mice. Searching on 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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Truncation, Wildcard, and Hyphen (ProQuest) *The asterisk (*) is the Truncation character, used to replace one or more characters. It can be used at the beginning (left-hand truncation), the end (right-hand truncation), or in the middle of a word. Example: Searching for econom* will find economy, economics, economical ?The question mark (?) is the Wildcard character, used to replace any single character, either inside or at the right end of the word. It cannot be used to begin a word. Example: Searching for t?re will find tire, tyre, tore, etc. Searching for ad??? will find added, adult, adopt. -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 (ProQuest) NEAR/# OR n/# Finds documents where these words are within some number of words of each other (either before or after). Example: computer NEAR/3 careers PRE/# OR p/# Finds documents where these words are within some number of words of each other in the specified order. Note: If you do not specify a number, a default value of 4 words will be applied. Example: business management PRE/5 education EXACT OR.e Used primarily for searching specific fields, like Subject, EXACT looks for your exact search term in its entirety, rather than as part of a larger term. Example: Type EXACT(“higher education”) in the Subject field Will retrieve: documents with the subject term "higher education" Will not retrieve: documents with the subject terms of “higher education administration”, “women in higher education”, etc.
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Basic search
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Phrase searching
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Refining the results: adding a date filter
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Filtering by date
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Using the “Search Within” feature to add more search terms
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Search Within
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Using “Search Within”
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Proximity operators
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Retrieving more specific results
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Document view
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Saving our search
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Advanced search – top part of page
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Advanced search – lower part of page
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Results page
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Narrowing the results by peer reviewed journals
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Advanced search: Thesaurus
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Thesaurus
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Thesaurus - Notes
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Thesaurus – Qualifiers
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Thesaurus
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Advanced search page – using thesaurus
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Reviewing the results
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Creating alert
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Creating alert - continued
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PQDT Global
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PQDT Global - Browsing
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Publication searching
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Recent Searches and Selected Items
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Recent Searches
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Selected Items
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My Research
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Training Materials Training materials available at http://proquest.libguides.com/home
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ProQuest Ebook Central™ Overview
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Agenda Search & Narrow Results Detail Page Ebook Central Reader Full Title & Chapter Downloads Highlights, Notes & Bookmarks Bookshelf Questions
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Patron Experience No need to create new patron accounts Patrons will be asked if they want to bring their ebrary bookshelf into Ebook Central when they first login Increased print (40%) and copy (20%) allowances Learn more: –ProQuest Ebook Central training webinar –YouTube videos –LibGuide –Quick Start Guide
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URL redirects Redirect technology means you will not be required to change any URLs for patrons to connect to Ebook Central. This redirect functionality will be turned on for you, coinciding with your upgrade date. –The redirects will last for a minimum of 5 years. We will provide ample notification if any changes are planned.
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Ebook Central on tablets & mobiles
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Search page
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Results page
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Refining the search
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Detail Page
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Reading the book online
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Bookshelf
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Upgrade Information Go to www.proquest.com/go/upgrade-ebookcentral for more detail specific to your upgrade, training materials and videos, support articles, and morewww.proquest.com/go/upgrade-ebookcentral Register for Ebook Central webinars at www.proquest.com/go/ProQuestEbookCentralCourses You can attend webinars on: Ebook Central Upgrade Essentials Ebook Central Overview ProQuest LibCentral Overview ProQuest LibCentral for Powerusers
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Where to find help… ProQuest Support Center: http://support.proquest.com/http://support.proquest.com/ Technical support: ebooksupport@proquest.comebooksupport@proquest.com Training webinars: www.proquest.com/go/ProQuestEbookCentralCourseswww.proquest.com/go/ProQuestEbookCentralCourses LibGuide: http://proquest.libguides.com/ebookcentralhttp://proquest.libguides.com/ebookcentral Videos: http://www.proquest.com/go/ProQuestEbookCentralVideoshttp://www.proquest.com/go/ProQuestEbookCentralVideos
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