PerformingASearchPQ

When you open up ProQuest eLibrary, A screen will come up and there will be a Basic Search bar. Then you type in your topic in which you wish to search. Below the Basic Search bar, there will be options such as News Papers, Magazines, Books, Maps, Websites, Pictures, Audio/ Video, and Transcripts. You can uncheck any of the unwanted sources below the Basic search bar, the ones that are left will be the sources in which your search will come up.

For advance search, you can select all of the Newspaper, magazines etc. that you have on a basic search. There are also different search types, you can check newspapers or articles older than 90 days or you can search within scholarly journals. There are more search options such as Date Range, Topic, Document Language, Document Title, Author Name, Reading Level, and Publication.

When you click on the Popular Search tab, a little box with the top searches of ProQuest eLibrary comes up.