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ProQuest covers so many information types, that searches can yield too many results.
This screencast will show you how to find more relevant results for your information
needs.
Let's say we want to research why internet videos go viral.
If we search "viral phenomena" in ProQuest, we get many results.
Some of these are what we're looking for, but
we also have some unrelated results.
We can narrow down our search by searching keywords within our results.
Clicking the search within link will direct us to a search box at the bottom of the page,
where we can now type in additional keywords.
Let's try searching "internet videos" to refine our results.
Great!
We now have fewer results and they are more directly related to our research.
We can narrow down our search even more by using some of ProQuest's sorting tools at
the right side of the page.
Starting with source type, we can click on one of the source types to show only results
of that type, or
we can click more options, and handpick which types to include, or exclude, from our search
results.
There are many ways to sort results,
such as selecting publication titles or document types you wish to include,
or, by choosing specific databases.
Also, you can choose a range of results by date -
using the sliders or by typing in the dates.
And, if you're stumped on keywords to use in your search,
ProQuest provides suggested searches that may be related to your research.
We had retrieved almost 40 thousand results with our initial search,
but, by using ProQuest's sorting tools, we were able to refine our search to only 347,
more manageable, and more relevant results.
Let ProQuest's refining tools help you on your next search.