Enter one or more words and click Search.
Enjoy looking through your search results. Open and view documents that interest you. A document can be anything from a newspaper article, to a photograph, PDF, or video.
Things to know
What ProQuest is doing with the words you entered:
ProQuest looks for your words (search terms) in the following document information:
- document titles
- authors
- abstract
- subjects
- full text
If you enter more than one word, eternal love for example, ProQuest will look for documents that contain both eternal and love in any of the document information listed above.
Search for an exact phrase
Surround your words with quotation marks—“eternal love” or “life after death”—to force ProQuest to look for your words as a phrase only, rather than finding each word separately.
Find out what databases you’re searching
Information about what databases you are currently searching is displayed in the blue bar at the top of the ProQuest window. Here’s an example of how it looks:
You are searching: 81 databases (See list | Change >>)
Use the links to view the current list and select or deselect databases.
Limit your search
- Select the Full text checkbox to find only documents that provide the complete full text, versus just a citation or abstract.
- Select the Scholarly journals checkbox to find only documents from academically oriented journals.
- Select the Peer reviewed checkbox to limit your search to research that has been evaluated by people in the same field in order to maintain quality.
Autocomplete -- search term suggestions as you enter your search
If enabled by your administrator, autocomplete provides suggestions from previously successful searches by ProQuest users. The list changes as you type, to match previous searches that start with what you have entered at any point. Click any term in the list to immediately search for that term.
You can click the Turn off auto-complete link to disable search term suggestions for your current ProQuest session.
Learn more
- Check out these Search Tips to learn about using search fields, operators, and more.
Search industries
Move your cursor and pause over any of the industry images to display a popup list of relevant databases.
- Click the Search link at the top of the industry popup to go to that industry homepage and search relevant databases.
- Click a specific database name in the industry popup to go to that database homepage and search only that database.
Change how the industries display
Use the Image view or List view links to switch between the default visual display, and database list display.