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According to your search strategy, type in your 1st set of terms in
the 1st window, the 2nd set in the following window, etc. Immediately
a drop-down menu will appear with suggestions for terms – ignore.
You could also change the field in which your terms must appear
next to each set, eg. SU (Subject) or IF (Keyword) fields. Choosing
the TI (Title) field will give the most exact results, but you might
loose valuable refs which do not include the terms you used
Scroll down the page, and choose your date range, language, and
the educational level for your terms, if applicable. Click on the
Search button
The results will now be displayed. If you haven’t selected the
Document Type as part of your search strategy on the previous
page, a breakdown of the 201 references according to source type
will be displayed on the right side of the screen – it indicates how
many of the 201 references are journals, books, reports, etc. To
view only journals, click on Scholarly journals
You can further refine your results by adding additional terms
within your search strategy, or narrow your date range by sliding
the indicator underneath the date graph, and then click on Update
below it
You can also modify your search strategy. Click on Modify Search,
and change your strategy by adding another search term,
changing search terms, or changing the fields in which the search
terms should occur.
One can choose to sort the references according to date instead
of relevance. A Short summary of the articles are displayed, with
the link to the full text of the article at the bottom of the reference,
if it is available in ProQuest
To view the abstract of a reference, just put your cursor on
Preview next to the article title, and this window with the
abstract will open
To see the full details of an article, including the SFX link to all full
text possibilities, click on the title of the article. Click on this SFX
link or to see if the article is available electronically to UP students
When clicking on the SFX-LINK:
Verify whether the full text is available, and click on GO next to the full
text note. The full text should now open to download or print.
If the full text is not available, request the article on interloan
References can be e-mailed, saved or exported to RefWorks (training in this
database follows in October). They must be marked beforehand. Mark your
references by ticking the box next to the article title, or as a batch of 20
references per page:
When you E-MAIL your references:
You have to enter your name here
Choose the format of your references: Brief citation, abstract, indexing by clicking the box next to it
Choose your citation style from the dropdown menu
Choosing your Citation style when e-mailing your references (see
previous slide):
The default style is APA 6th ed. If you use another style, click on the
dropdown menu next to Citation Style and click on your choice (for
Harvard, we use Harvard British Standard)
This is how your e-mail will look:
first all the references are listed in the citation style you have chosen
(here the Harvard British Standard)
NB: abstracts won’t be shown in this reference list!
At the end of the reference list in your citation style, the references are listed again, this time in the format you have indicated (here: Brief citation,
abstract, indexing) NB: If the full text of the article is available, the URL to the full text is also
listed. By clicking on this link, the full text will open
NB: if 2 URL’s are listed in the same reference:
- The URL will link to the full text of the article. Choose this as a 1st option
- The Document URL will take you to the ERIC page with the full page of the
reference and SFX link. Click on this SFX link to see if the article is available
electronically to UP students (see slides 14 & 15)
A Window will open to format your references
Tick this format
Choose your citation style from the dropdown menu
One can now either Open the file, or Save it directly in the folder of
your choice (eg memory stick)
If one chooses to open the file, all the saved references will be displayed. They can now be saved by clicking on File and in the dropdown menu the
Save as button at the top of the page
If one chooses to save the file directly, this window will open where
one can choose the file in which the references must be saved, eg.
your memory stick.
1. Choose your file from the dropdown menu or your list of files
listed on the left side of the screen
2.Name your file
3. Click the
Save button
SOME POINTS TO PONDER WHEN SEARCHING
ERIC
- As the database index both American and British articles - use both
the British and American versions of your keywords, eg. Counselling /
Counseling.
- Be careful of using a fixed phrase, eg. Quality in education. Rather
use 2 search terms: quality and education. Put your phrase in
quotation marks: “quality in education”
- If you have too many references, either add another search term to
refine your results, use a more specific term, eg. secondary schools
instead of schools, or change your date range, by modifying your
search