Week 4 Proquest

I stared out with a basic search about Alzheimer’s. I noticed it shows the total of results and a links with suggested subjects with my search. On the right side I really enjoyed some of the links to help search within the results. To help narrow the results by selecting source type could help a college student needing scholarly journals for their paper. The table that shows what decade the results were written in is also helpful for if your needing newer information or to see what was being said about the subject 50 years ago. Scrolling through the results the icons of what source type is helpful. Another helpful tool is being about to select which items you want to return to. This way you can do a general run through and return to your own list you created to do more in depth research.  Having the preview option is a great option to save time especially if you have slow internet that way you can read the summary without having to leave the web page.

When I was reading librarian 2 blog about Proquest I didn’t even think about using this tool in the business area. Librarian 2 did a great job explaining how it can be used to help individuals that are investing in bonds. Also, the topic with agriculture is important to our community and a great source to read recent articles.

Publication search with only having full text was impressive. I searched library and had a list of 20 publications. When I selected Library Journal it was great that you could browse the issues by years released. I clicked on view most recent issue Feb. 15, 2012. It’s great how they have the issue in sections this way you can read what interest you and not have to look through the whole journal.  I went into the full text of the NewsDesk and right away had to play with the translation. The full text was translated into Spanish within 30 seconds. Amazing! We have many patrons that come use our computers that have family members or friends to translate. This feature will help these patrons gain some independence. This got me searching more and sure enough right on the basic search page at the top right was the link to change language to at least 20 different languages. I am learning so much by clicking around on these websites!