Topic Guide

The ProQuest Topic Guide lets you find documents by searching an index, or by exploring a hierarchical subject directory. Indexed topics may include subjects, companies, people, and locations.

Enter a term and select whether you want ProQuest to Suggest Topics or Look up Topics A-Z, then click Find Term. Or, click browse subjects by topic to view the Subject Directory.

Once you have found a topic, click View documents to run a search using the topic.

Or click Narrow below the desired topic to narrow the search using related terms. From the narrowed list, find a term you want to use and click View.

• About the Topic Guide
• Search for a Topic with Suggest Topics
• Search for a Topic with Look Up Topics A-Z
• Browse the Subject Directory
• Use Narrow

Search for a Topic with Suggest Topics

Follow these steps to locate a term with the Topic Guide using Suggest Topics:

1. Enter a term and select Suggest Topics, then click Find Term.
2. ProQuest will suggest topics similar to the term you have entered.
   For example, if you enter Math, ProQuest will suggest Mathematics education and Mathematics education AND Teaching. Scroll through the list to locate the term you want.
3. Once you have found a term, click View documents to run a search using that term. Or click Narrow to narrow your search using related terms.
4. Once you have narrowed the search, you will see additional filtering options. You can:

• Scroll through the list to locate the term you want.
• Select a filtering tab (People, Locations, Companies, Subjects, Dates, Publications).
• Navigate to a different page using the Next and Previous links.
• Change the order the topics are sorted (Number of Results, Alphabetical Order).
• Jump to a specific letter or term alphabetically by entering a letter or term in the Jump to box and clicking Go.

5. Once you have found a term, click View documents to run a search using that term. Or click Narrow to narrow your search using related terms.

Search for a Topic with Look up Topics A-Z

Follow these steps to locate a term with the Topic Guide using Look up Topics A-Z:

1. Enter a term and select Look up Topics A-Z, then click Find Term.
2. You see the nearest match (alphabetically) to your search terms. Do one of the following:

• Scroll through the list to locate the term you want.
• Select a filtering tab (People, Locations, Companies, Subjects).
• Navigate to a different page using the Jump to, Next and Previous links.

3. Once you have narrowed the search, you will see additional filtering options. You can:

• Scroll through the list to locate the term you want.
• Select a filtering tab (People, Locations, Companies, Subjects, Dates, Publications).
• Navigate to a different page using the Jump to, Next and Previous links.
• Change the order the topics are sorted (Number of Results, Alphabetical Order).

4. Once you have found a term, click View documents to run a search using that term. Or click Narrow to narrow your search using related terms.
   

About the Topic Guide

The Topic Guide provides you with a comprehensive list of possible topics. You can quickly browse this list, or use the tabs to filter the results. Depending on the search terms you have selected you may see some or all of these filtering options.

• People lists famous or important people you're likely to want to include in your search. Names do not represent authors of documents contained in the ProQuest collections.
  
• Locations lists geographical names, such as the names of cities, nations, landmarks, or regions.
  
• Companies lists corporations, businesses, organizations, and other groups, such as performers.
  
• Subjects lists keywords. Subjects in our subject directory are based on terms found in the ProQuest thesaurus, which contains a set of specialized terms used to categorize information in ProQuest.
  
• Dates list dates.
  
• Publications lists publications.
  
• All lists topics from all categories.

Browse the Subject Directory

The Topic Tree makes finding documents easy. Just click the topics that interest you, exploring the list. When you've found what you're looking for, click View document.

Follow these steps to run a search using Topic Tree:

1. Make sure you're on the Topic Guide page. Click Topic Guide on the main menu.
2. Click browse the subject directory to view the topic tree.
3. Click the word that most closely resembles the subject you're interested in.
   A list of subtopics related to the subject you chose appears.
4. Click the subtopic that matches the information you want most closely.
   A list of words further refining the subtopic appears.
5. From that list, choose the word that most closely suggests the kind of information you're looking for.
   When you've reached the end of the list, and the topic you're searching can't be refined any further, View documents appears next to each word in your list of final subject terms.
6. Click View documents next to the subject term that best represents the concept you're trying to find. ProQuest searches, and presents you with a list of documents matching that subject term.

Use Narrow

Narrow lets you narrow your search by adding related terms.

1. Select a term you want to use for your search.
   
2. Click Narrow to narrow the search using related terms.
   
3. From the narrowed list, find a term you want to use and click View documents.

For example, if you are looking for information about air bags in General Motors vehicles you would search for the subject Air Bags. Then, click Narrow to view only related index terms. In the narrowed list, you will see General Motors Corp. Click View documents and ProQuest will display documents matching the focused search subject(air bags) AND company(general motors corp).