Step by Step with ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source Plus
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source is a great place for research on nursing and medical topics. Nursing and Allied Health Source offers a large number of full text articles in scholarly journals as well as Medcom Training Videos. This handout takes you through both basic and advanced searching.
- Before you touch the keyboard, think carefully about
your topic. Most topics for college level papers
have two main ideas in them. If your topic does not have
two ideas, then you may want to narrow it down. An example of
a paper topic is: the health effects of using a cell phone.
- The main ideas in this topic
are cell phones and health. To put these ideas together
in a way that ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source understands,
your search statement becomes: cell phones AND health.
The AND is not a
word but a logical operator that tells the computer to look for
all articles that deal with both health and cell phones.
Here is how ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source sees your search statement.
The overlap between the circles is your search results.
- To search ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health
Source via GALILEO http://www.galileo.usg.edu,
click the golden Databases A to Z tab in the center of the row near the
top of GALILEO's front page. Then select P in the alphabet list.
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source is near the end of the list.
- Type your search statement in to the box in Basic Search. Don't
forget to check off the Full Text box and include the AND. To search for
videos, make Medcom Training Videos one
of your search terms. A search for videos on diabetes
is diabetes AND
Medcom Training Videos.
- Click the Search button to launch your search.
- ProQuest presents results ten(10) at a time. You can move among
them with the scroll bar and move between pages with the,
Previous, Next, and Page Number links at the bottom of the window.
- To see an article's abstract and full text, click on its blue title.
- To see a full text article in PDF form, click on its PDF icon.
- a> To print an article, click on ProQuest's print icon.
b> To email an article, click on ProQuest's email icon and fill out the form.
c> To save an article to a folder you can open at home, login to your personal ProQuest account and then click on the My Research icon.
- To end a search in ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source, click the Home icon in the browser's top row or close your browser.
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source Advanced Search
If you are visually oriented, want more space and flexibility, or plan to try several related searches, then ProQuest's Advanced Search is for you.
- Instead of using an AND between ideas
in a search statement, in Advanced Search, you fill separate rows
with your ideas, one row per idea.
- You can also put two or more synonyms for one
idea together using OR, a logical
operator joins synonyms as a single idea.
- In Advanced Search, fill in the multibox.
Select Full Text, and click Search.
