Since 1938, this database has collected,
organized, and distributed information in more than 160 countries. First, it
only included English resources, and then abstracts, periodicals, and
publications were added to the website. The Proquest Database is the product of
Bell & Howell Education and Information Company, which is a global guide to
meeting the information needs of millions of researchers at all levels and any
ability rate.
The main subjects of the ProQuest Database
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Medical sciences, health services, pharmacy,
and dentistry
Health care, pediatrics, pharmacy,
physiotherapy, international communication
Public science, trade in Asia, trade in
Europe, computer sciences, sports industry, and entertainment
Engineering and technology, information
technology, computer sciences, electricity and telecommunications
Management, accounting, tax, business, and
related topics
Social sciences, psychology, and educational
sciences, religious publications
Applied sciences, banking, techniques and
innovation
Research publications, educational journals,
public references, and library research
ProQuest Resource Types
The database provides access to millions of
documents from hundreds of different resources. These old and new documents
include sources such as newspapers and theses and PhD dissertations. In fact, ProQuest
is the official digital archive of congressional library dissertations,
scientific publications, presentations, reports and official research,
government documents, books, maps, reports, summaries of congresses, standards,
and audio and video sources.
Documents saved in this database are in the
forms of PDFs, figures, diagrams, Microsoft office files, newspapers, journals,
articles of scientific and commercial journals, and audio and visual files.
Depending on user access, these documents can
be in the form of abstracts and full texts. In addition, the documents can be
in the form of figures, diagrams, tables, and movies.
Features:
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Possibility of searching for documents by different
methods
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Updating information
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Thesis presentation; in this regard, several new
dissertations are added every year
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Presenting the abstracts of articles in different
languages, including French, Arabic, and Chinese
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Presenting bibliographic specifications of articles with
their abstracts and full texts
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Having the archives of several important newspapers,
including The New York Times and Washington Post
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Possibility of membership in the database and using its
advantages (connection in any place and at any time or outside the university
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Personalization and management of search results)
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Having access to the ProQuest database
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link through entering the website of Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences
(www.kums.ac.ir), clicking the link of
digital library from the top toolbar of the page, and selecting ProQuest
Database from the list of accessible databases of the university
Entering the website of
the electronic library with the address of http://diglib.kums.ac.ir and selecting the database
Direct visit of the
database with the address of http://search.proquest.com
Basic Search
To use the database,
click the search box on the homepage of the database or click its link at the
top left of the page and enter your desired keyword. In addition, you can
determine whether you want to see the full text or the peer-reviewed contents. The
text autocomplete can also be used along with typing the keyword. In order to
benefit from all features of the website, you can first register on the website
and carry out your search. For example, you can enter “optic neve” and place
the term in quotation marks so that it could be regarded as one phrase, which
optimizes the search results. After that, you can click the search option.
Advanced Search
By selecting an advanced
option on top of the page, five different search methods are shown, which can
be used based on your need, and all of them are the subcategories of advanced
search. You can use the advanced search link at the top of the basic search box
or in the advanced section at the top of the page.
Advanced search: this
search has flexible fields for more complex searches.
In advanced search
method, there are some boxes for entering different keywords and a combination
of terms with the application of different operators. In this regard, more
boxes can be created as desired.
In the figure above,
various numbered search options are shown, each of which is pointed out below:
1. In “limit to”
section, you can only search the records that provide access to the full text.
By selecting peer reviewed option, you can search the judged scientific
contents.
2. Search can be limited
in terms of the time limit.
Advanced Search Method
Searching the name of the
author
Saving the name of
institution or university
(Searching subject heading)
Selected Topics
Searching the advisor of
the thesis
(Searching keyword),
this search is performed among the keywords that are indexed in this database
Determines the type of
degree
Type of degree (MSc or
PhD)
Determines the document
language
It can be determined
that the article or other studies searched are performed on which age group
Determines the display
order of the search results
Determines the number of
documents in each pay of search results display
Because of the
possibility of repetitive documents on the search results display among the
various ProQuest databases, this section can be used to specify the repetitive
results.
Search in Publications
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click “Publications” at the top of the page. This section contains an
alphabetical list of titles of various publications of books and journals
available in ProQuest.
There are also options
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Search in the
Alphabetical List of Specific Content (Browse)
To observe this section,
click “browse” at the top of the page. This section includes two main parts of
dissertations & thesis, and health & medicine, the subcategories of
each are shown in the figure below.
You can browse titles by
selecting this section, which contains videos and other nursing educational
resources.
To observe the
dissertation resources and browse the references, click “dissertations and
theses” in the browse section. Theses are arranged in this section in two
forms: in alphabetic order of titles and alphabetic order of countries
If you only want to
search in the section of theses references, you can click “health &
medicine” on the homepage of the database and then click “ProQuest global
dissertations and theses”. Now, you can search your keyword and find the
relevant theses.
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