Publication Search Tips

• Use "quotation marks" to search for an exact title match. If you search for Science you will find all publications with Science in the title. If you search for "Science" you will find only the publication titled Science.
• AND is assumed between each word. Do not enter AND. If you search for American AND medical, ProQuest will search for titles containing all three words.
• Searches are not case sensitive. A search for new york times will find the same results as a search for New York Times.

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• Searching with a Partial Title
• Searching with Likely Title Words
• Truncation and Wildcard Characters ?, *
• Operators OR
• Example Searches

Searching with a Partial Title

If you don't know the complete title of the publication you're looking for, type the portion you know in the search field. A list of matches for your partial title appears.

Scan the list for the title you want and click the name to see available issues.

Example:

If you remember only that the title of the publication you want contains New York, type New York for your search. You'll find results including such publications as New York Post, New York Times, and New York Times Book Review (the results you find will depend on the database you are searching).

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Searching with Likely Title Words

You can also search for publications you might be interested in using words that are likely to appear in the title. This approach is useful when you're interested in a broad subject and you're not sure what publications related to the subject exist.

Example:

If you're interested in documents about history, type history as your search word. You'll find a list of publications containing the word "history" in the title. You can combine your search with wildcard or truncation characters, searching for hist*, and finding publications with either "history" or "historical" in the title.

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Truncation and Wildcard Characters

	The symbol * is used as a right-handed truncation character only; it will find all forms of a word. For example, searching for econom* will find "economy", "economics", economical", etc.
	The symbol ? is used to replace any single character, either inside the word or the right end of the word. ? cannot be used to begin a word. For example, searching for "wom?n" will find "woman" and "women." Searching for "t?re" will find "tire", "tyre", "tore", etc.

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Operators

The only Boolean Operator that works during Publication Search is OR. If you use AND, ProQuest will search for titles that contain the word and.

Example Searches

The examples below illustrate the kinds of searches you can build in Publication Search.

Content varies between ProQuest databases; therefore, the number of publications found using the examples below would vary.

New York

Finds publications with the words New York in the title.

educat*

Finds publications with the words education, educator, educate, or educating in the title. The "*" is the truncation symbol to find multiple forms of a word.

Science

Finds publications with the word Science in the title.

"Science"

Finds only the publication titled Science.

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