Performing+A+Search

= Performing A Search =

=Basic Search=

When you enter the Proquest k12 Website, you find the option for a basic information search. You can do a broad search of your topic or narrow it down so that only specific items come up.

Right under the search bar, you will see a headline that says "Database". From here you can choose to narrow your search by picking where you pull information from. If you click the down arrow, you will find a plethora of databases to pick from.

Under the "Database" headline, there is a headline for "Data range". The data range allows you to choose the dates of the information you pull from. You can choose from the last 7 days up to last 7 months. There's also an option to pick your own date ranges.

Lastly, there's a headline under the "Data range" that says "Limit results to". This allows use to choose to see an abstract of the document, or a short summary, or a full text document of the paper that you searched. There are check mark boxes next to two choices of "Full text documents only" and "Scholarly journals including peer reviewed". The full text documents only check will give you results of full length documents without any abstracts and the Scholarly journals check will give you more of a scientific type of document.

Basic Search Example
This is an example search that we've done for the the basic search using the keyword "dog". First we went to the Proquest Central K12 website homepage and typed into the search bar "dog". As you can see, we've done a broad search, without any specifications that are available to your basic search. When you do a broad search like what we just did, you can get a whole variety of different results that come up, from scientific to fiction.

This is what the homepage of the Proquest Central K12 looks like when you enter the site: This is the page that you should come upon after you've clicked the search button:

Too Broad, Too Basic?
What if you needed a certain topic and didn't have enough time to go through the entire site? There are different things that you can specify within the search.To narrow it down you only have to pick what kind of results you want from the suggestions under the main search bar. You can find the listings of their various uses above. If that's still not enough, you can use the Advanced Search choice that's explained below.

=Advanced Search=

When you enter the Proquest k12 there is a a tab at the top of the page that says Advanced. If you click on this tab it will bring you to a new page called Advanced Search.

When performing an advanced search you have the option of what kind of results you would like. You can specify what words you do not want in the results and what word you do want.You can also specify what kind of data base you would like to search though. Also you have the option to pick what date the data base was made and you can limit the search in various ways.

This is what the advanced search page looks like