ProQuest databases include:

• ABI/INFORM Complete
• Criminal Justice Periodicals
• Ethnic NewsWatch
• Hoover's Company Records
• ProQuest Education Journals
• ProQuest Newspapers
• ProQuest Nursing Journals & Allied Health Source
• ProQuest Psychology Journals
• Research Library

• Make sure to use Boolean operators, i.e., and or not, between your search terms, e.g., career and counseling and youth. <click here for more about Boolean>.
• Does ProQuest provide the option to limit results to Full Text? YES
• Does ProQuest provide the option to limit results to Refereed/Peer Reviewed? YES
• Thorough guide: Linked here, in PDF format (Adobe Acrobat), is an excellent guide to utilizing the ProQuest databases. Click here for the guide

  If you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the guide (linked above), it is available for free.

Specific search techniques:

• Use "quotation marks" to search for exact phrases.
• 2 word queries (such as circus elephant) are searched as an exact phrase by default.
• 3 word queries (such as new york orchestra) are searched as words that need to appear in proximity to each other by default.
• Use special characters and operators (below) to focus your query.

Truncation and Wildcard Characters

• The symbol * is used as a right-handed truncation character only; it will find all forms of a word. For example, searching for econom* will find "economy", "economics", economical", etc.
• The symbol ? is used to replace any single character, either inside the word or the right end of the word. ? cannot be used to begin a word.
  For example, searching for "wom?n" will find "woman" and "women." Searching for "t?re" will find "tire", "tyre", "tore", etc.