Prince George's Community College

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Largo, Maryland 20774

Using Online Databases
Module 4

Searching ProQuest

Proquest is a group of databases subscribed to by Prince George's Community College Library. The databases integrate selected full text interdisciplinary publications. The databases include scholarly journals, magazines, and newspapers. Currently, the Library subscribes to the Criminal Justice Periodicals, Ethnic NewsWatch, National Newspaper Abstracts, ProQuest National Newspapers, ProQuest Nursing Journals, Research Library, and PsycARTICLES.

To access the ProQuest databases, start at the Library Media Center's homepage and click on the Online Databases link or go to the Online Databases page from the Library's Web site. When one of the links are clicked on to a ProQuest database, a screen similar to the one below will come up.

To begin a Basic Search, click in the box and enter your search strategy. To select another method of searching, click one of the tabs.

Now that you have an understanding of how to select databases and begin a search method, you will learn how to do a Basic Search and Advanced Search.