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Narrowing the list of publications
Publication home pages
The Browse Issue page

 

The Publication Search page lists all publications in all currently selected databases. You can search for one or more publications. Your search will return matches on both current publication titles and their as-available historical titles.

Your search can include operators, wildcard characters and truncation characters to create more precise searches. See Search Tips to learn more. Search terms, including fields and operators, are not case sensitive. Lowercase, uppercase, and mixed case are all interpreted the same by ProQuest.

Narrowing the list of publications

Use the filters under Narrow publications list in the right column to refresh your list to target specific types of publications based on focus or content. Click the plus (+) and (-) minus icons to expand and collapse filter categories such as Source type and Language. Click the More options... link to access additional category selections.

Publication home pages

Click a publication’s title in the list to view its home page. On a publication home page, you can:

  • Set up alerts and RSS feeds to notify you when the publication is updated.
  • View further details (including coverage information) about a publication and its publisher.
  • Search within the publication.
  • Browse the contents of available issues.

Set up a publication alert

Set up a publication alert to notify you when new issues are added to ProQuest. You can specify details-information only or full text, and the frequency and duration of the alert.

  1. Click Set up alert.
  2. Complete the form and click Create alert.
  3. Confirm receipt of the email address confirmation message to begin receiving your alerts.

Sign in to My Research to manage your alerts.

Create an RSS feed

Click Create RSS feed to create an automatic service to notify you when new issues are added to ProQuest. You can integrate your RSS feed link into an RSS reader or into a Web page.

The first time you access your RSS feed, no new documents will be available. When new documents are available, your RSS feed is updated automatically to show them.

Sign in to My Research to manage your RSS feeds

Important to know: You may occasionally notice that alert and RSS feed options are not displayed for some publications. There are several reasons why the options may not be available, including:

  • ProQuest may have lost rights to the publication, meaning that until we reacquire rights no new content will be available.
  • The publication may have shut down or otherwise been discontinued.
  • A publication may be deemed ‘complete,’ with no new content becoming available.

Viewing publication information

  • Click Show all to display all available bibliographic information for a publication.
  • Click Show less detail to minimize the display.
  • Click a linked subject term to search for other publications indexed under that subject.
  • Click a linked publisher name to search for other publications published by that publisher.

Searching within a publication

  1. Enter your term(s) in the Search within this publication box.
  2. Click Search.

A Search Results page displays, listing all the items in the selected publication that match your search terms.

Browsing specific issues of a publication

Click View most recent issue.

To browse back issues of a publication:

  1. Choose whether to display newest or oldest issues first by clicking the appropriate link.
  2. Click a decade to browse a list of available years.
  3. Click a year to browse a list of available issues.
  4. Click an issue to be taken to the browse page for that issue.

The Browse Issue page displays, listing all articles in the order they appeared in the original publication.

The Browse Issue page

Changing the order in which the articles are sorted

Choose an option—Page order (as published, the default), or Reverse page order—from the Sort results by drop-list.

Previewing items

Move your cursor over the Preview icon to display a popup containing summary information for that item.

You can email, printcite, export and save articles from the Preview layer, or save an item to My Research.

Adding items to your Selected items

Add a document in your browse issue list to the Selected items page by selecting the corresponding checkbox.

Searching within your results

Refine your search and retrieve only items within an issue that contain a particular search term by using Search Within, located at the bottom of your results list. For example, if you are browsing an issue and want to view only articles within that issue that concern religion, type ‘religion’ in the Search Within box and click Search to retrieve a matching results list.

 

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