The document provides instructions for searching the ProQuest database, including entering search terms and using filters to refine results. It recommends keeping searches simple using quotation marks for phrases and Boolean operators for more specific queries. Users are advised to filter results by source type, article type, subject headings, and date to find the most relevant sources.

1. ProQuest Tutorial
Searching the database and using filters.

2. Go to http://www.bvswlmc.com
Click on “All Databases”

3. Go to
ProQuest

4. Find the username
and password on
your password
sheet.

5. Enter search terms
here. KEEP IT
Search tricks: SIMPLE!
• Use “quotes” for exact
phrases.
• Use Boolean searching
for more specific
searches, AND, OR,
NOT.
• Limit to FULL TEXT to
restrict your results to
printable articles.

6. Sample search query.
“adventures of racism
huckleberry
finn”

7. 475 results!

8. 475 results!
Use these filters!

9. Journals-High level
reads
Magazines and
newspapers-
usually lower

10. Journals-High level
reads
Magazines and
newspapers-
usually lower
Features-typically
more in depth
Articles-varied
levels
Obituary-rarely a
first choice…

11. Journals-High level
reads
Magazines and
newspapers-
usually lower
Features-typically
more in depth
Articles-varied
levels
Obituary-rarely a
first choice…
Headings the topic
is under (like a
chapter in a book).
Good way to find
more general
search topics!

12. Headings the topic
is under (like a
chapter in a book).
Good way to find
more general
search topics!
Limit the dates to
what is relevant for
your topic.