Document Page Options

Print this topic

Download or Save as PDF

Cite

Additional options

Include search strategy details

Table of contents/Search within/Hit distribution

Translate

Request an inter-library loan

Download video

Indexing information

Database-specific features

When you run a search, ProQuest returns a list of matching documents. Click any document in the list to open it in Document View. Documents can be available in one or more formats, such as Full text, or Abstract/Details..

With a document displayed you can:

Read citations and indexing information
Read available full text
With hit highlighting turned on, scan the document for occurrences of your search terms
View reference lists, shared references, or ‘Cited by’ information as available
Important to know—If a document contains thumbnails of images originally printed with the document, you can tab to the image and then press Enter to display it full size.

What you can do with a document

Download or Save as PDF

For documents that provide 'Full text - PDF' format, click the toolbar icon labeled Download PDF (even if the 'Full text - PDF' is open in the ProQuest window) to open the PDF in a new tab or window using the Acrobat Reader browser plug-in.

If the document is provided in HTML or image-based full text format only, click the the toolbar icon labeled Save as PDF to generate a PDF on-the-fly containing the full text, bibliographic details, and abstract (where available).

Cite

Click the toolbar icon labeled Cite to create a formatted citation you can include in a bibliography.

The following citation styles are available:

Email

Email an item to yourself and others. You can specify the level of available document detail (Citation, abstract, indexing, full text, etc.) you want to send, as well as selecting a citation format.

Print

Click the Print toolbar icon to open a version of the currently displayed document formatted for printing. Navigation options and interface elements are removed. Use your browser to print the page.

Note: If you are working with video content, the Print page will not include video stills; if you want to print these, pause the video player at the appropriate point, then use your browser’s print options from the Video Document View page.

Additional Options

Click the last icon in the toolbar to open the All Save Options layer, listing all the tasks that you can perform on the current document. In addition to the options mentioned above, you can perform the following tasks from the All Save Options layer:

Copy a concise, durable link to the current document, so you can easily return to it
Save it to My Research
Add it to your Selected items list
Export or save it to a cloud storage service or citation/reference management tool
Save it in a range of common file formats, specifying how much information you want to include in the file.

Include search strategy details

Include details of your search strategy when you download, email, print or save your results by checking Include my recent searches. Your search strategy will be displayed in the same sort order you have selected on the Recent Searches page.

The option you have chosen will persist throughout ProQuest for the duration of your session.

Table of contents/Search within/Hit distribution

Primary work document pages in some ProQuest databases (e.g. ProQuest One Literature, Early English Books Online) include additional options for navigating and searching within the work, and for the presentation of your search terms.

Primary texts usually include the table of contents of the original printed source (book or volume) in a left-side panel. This could be the acts and scenes of a play, or a list of all the poems in the parent volume of the poem currently displayed. You can click an entry in the Table of Contents to jump to a particular section of a work (e.g. chapter in a novel), or view another work in the same parent volume (e.g. poem in a collection).

Search within

You can use the Search within feature in the left-side panel to see each occurrence of your search term in a line (snippet) of context, listed under the relevant section of the primary text. Click a snippet to jump to that particular point in the work. You can modify an existing search or run a new search using the keyword Search box at the top of the panel.

Hit distribution

After a keyword search on primary texts, the Hit distribution panel appears at the foot of the screen, offering an alternative presentation of the occurrences of your search term (hits). You can use the Hit distribution chart to get a better sense of the distribution/concentration of your search terms throughout the work. Mouse over a node to open a popover with the term in context. Click a node to jump to that particular point in the work.

Note: the Hit distribution feature only appears for longer works, those that are more than 5,000 words in length.

Translate

You can choose to translate either a document’s abstract, or its full text. Click the Translate link, and select a language. With a translation performed, the link toggles to Undo Translation.

Important to know: When you click Translate, a disclaimer advises that this is an "on-the-fly" machine translation, and “is in no way intended to replace human translation.”

Click the Translate link to obtain a machine translation of a document in your selected language.

Request an inter-library loan

If your institution has enabled this feature, you will be able to request inter-library loans directly from the Document View in ProQuest.

Related items / Suggested sources / Search with indexing terms

To the right of any displayed document is a column.The column can contain the following three panels.

Related items

Documents in some databases feature key related items in separate panels above the Suggested sources panel. For example, a ProQuest One business document page may include links to a topic page for the Company or Industry that is the main subject of the current document.

Suggested sources

ProQuest displays documents found in your currently selected databases that include similar key words, phrases, or concepts as the displayed document.

Click a title to display the document.
Click the View all link to view more documents.

Search with indexing terms

All documents in ProQuest are indexed. Editors or automated processes identify relevant matching terms that occur in a document, and associate them with specific ‘indexing fields,’ such as Author, Publication title, or Subject. When you display a document, the indexing is shown either on the Details tab, or in the Details section of the Abstract/Details tab. When a document is indexed with matching terms for the Subject field, and/or for a field deemed ‘Subject-like’ — such as Company/organization, Location, or People — then you’ll see the Search with indexing terms section in the right panel. By default, a list of up-to five matching terms for each Subject or Subject-like field displays. Each Subject or Subject-like field displays as a bold header, with corresponding matching terms indexed in the document listed beneath, each with a leading checkbox.

You can select one or more terms beneath a single field heading, or if there is more than one index field heading displayed, across all of the fields. When you click Search, ProQuest looks for documents in your currently selected databases that are indexed using ALL of your selected terms. Note that ALL implies your selected terms are joined with the AND operator, and not OR.

Important to know — If a currently displayed document is not indexed with any subjects or subject-like terms, then the Search with indexing terms section does not display.

Download video

Videos that are not part of the Academic Video Online database may be available to download in mp4 format for use offline. Click Video download in the Other formats panel to watch a video with a video player of your choice, or save it for later. If you do not have a video player already installed, download one of these for free:

Although we are unable to provide captioning for videos outside Academic Video Online at this time, Transcript links are provided below most video clips.

Indexing details information

Click the Details or Abstract/Details tab above a displayed document to view all available bibliographic information for the item. A permanent link to the item is also included for you to bookmark or include in your own documents.

Clicking a linked subject term in the Details or Abstract/Details view will retrieve other items indexed under that subject term and take you to a new Search Results page. You can also find other items by the same author, or in the same publication, by clicking linked author/publication names, or you can retrieve other items in a particular volume/issue by clicking a linked volume/issue number.

Document view: database-specific

Academic Video Online

The Alexander Street video player is used to play videos in Academic Video Online. Please refer to Alexander Street Video Player for more information on these options.

ASFA

Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts database (ASFA) contains abstracts and indexing, as well as some full text held by the National Sea Grant Library (NSGL). Where available, you can go directly to the full text material from the NSGL by clicking the link to full text on the ProQuest Search Results. A new window will open up re-directing you to the full text in the NSGL’s own collection.

British Periodicals

The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals identifies the authors of pseudonymous or anonymous articles. If you are subscribed to both British Periodicals and the Wellesley Index, author attribution information from Wellesley, and updates from the Curran Index where appropriate, will be included in the brief citation information for articles from British Periodicals.

Joint subscribers can also link to the article record in Wellesley Index directly from the British Periodicals Document View.

EBook Central

Ebooks from Ebook Central have a separate Ebook Details page, giving an overview of the book, and an Ebook Document page, for you to interact and read the full text online. Please refer to the relevant Help page links for more information.

Economist Intelligence Unit Country Reports Archive

You can click the Figures & tables tab above the full text of each report to access thumbnails, metadata, view full-size images, and download spreadsheets for each figure and table in the report.

ERIC

The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Education and contains index coverage for material relating to educational literature, with some full text. Where available, you can go directly to the full text held by ERIC by clicking the link on the ProQuest Document View. A new window will open up re-directing you to the full text in ERIC’s own collection of material.

Literature Online and ProQuest One Literature

The Suggested sources panel for primary texts includes links to Author pages for the authors of the current work, gathering together all available resources for an individual author on a single page.

Luthers Werke

A number of standard display formats have been used in the Luthers Werke Full Text:

Main headings and captions are centred and in bold.
Page numbers are displayed in black in square brackets following the German Seite.
Figures and tables are inline within the Full Text.
Authorial notes and editorial notes are available as popovers with teal hypertext links.
The critical apparatus (variants and occasional editorial and/or authorial notes) appears in red at the top of the page and is bracketed.
The two non-roman scripts that are displayed are Greek and Hebrew; the Greek text is accented.
Biblical references appear in blue and are bracketed.

Note: The original German text in Luthers Werke is in Gothic script, with all its typographical features. Although the Gothic script has not been reproduced in this electronic version, it is represented by emboldened text. The user should bear in mind that in the Gothic script "u" and "v" are interchangeable, as well as "i" and "j", so you may find, for example, "vber" in place of "uber" and "iung" in place of "jung". Searching or browsing will only retrieve hits which correspond exactly to the search term. If necessary, we recommend you use a wildcard to search for all instances of a word. The Latin text has many standard medieval abbreviations and ligatures which have been produced on screen.

Music Periodicals Database

If your institution/library is a joint subscriber to both Naxos Music Library and Music Periodicals Database, and if your account administrator has enabled NAXOS linking, you can view links to items in Naxos Music Library directly from the corresponding items in Music Periodicals Database. Similarly, where full text is available for a Music Periodicals Databaseitem in JSTOR or Project MUSE, and where linking has been enabled, you can link directly to those databases from Music Periodicals Database records.

Note that links to JSTOR, Project MUSE and Naxos will open in new windows, while ProQuest remains open in the original window.

MEDLINE®

MeSH (Medical Subject Heading) terms are linked in Medline® records; clicking a linked subject term will carry out a search for that subject term and take you to a new Search Results.

New York Times Index

The following fields on the Document View are specific to the New York Times Index:

Topic headings

Topic headings are hyperlinked; you can click a heading to run a new search for that subject term. Note that topic headings in the Index are arranged hierarchically, enabling you to drill down from broader terms to more specific terms. This means that when you click a linked term, ProQuest will run a subject search for the term you have clicked and any terms that precede it, while ignoring any terms at a lower level of the hierarchy.

For example, if the subject terms displayed are Airplanes > International Incidents, clicking Airplanes runs a subject search for Airplanes, while clicking International Incidents runs a subject search for Airplanes AND International Incidents.

NYT Index summary

An individual article in the New York Times may be indexed by multiple entries in the New York Times Index. The information from all entries in the Index relevant to a particular article will be included in this field.

Print location

The location of the article in the print edition, in the format ‘page x, column y’.

PRISMA with HAPI

PRISMA is available as a standalone database or with subject indexing that has been provided by The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), an authoritative source of information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.

If you are subscribed to PRISMA with HAPI, an icon will appear in the citation information for records where HAPI subject terms and additional descriptors are available. You can move your mouse over the icon to find out more information about HAPI. In addition, for records where HAPI indexing is available, the relevant HAPI subject terms/descriptors will be available in the indexing details for those records.

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