To search Proquest Direct newspaper databases follow these steps:

1. You must be on-campus to access these databases.

2. Link to http://www.umi.com/proquest or if you are at Skyline Library computer table A or table C, you can select Proquest Newspaper Databases from the Newspaper Databases submenu.

3. At the "Select Database" page, all of the databases available for our account (S.F. Chronicle, N.Y. Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times) are pre-selected. If you want to limit your search to only the S.F. Chronicle or one of the other database choices, you can click in the selection box to left of each database.

5. Click the New Search button at the top of the page.

5. Click on Subject List (on the right side of the page). The Subject List provides a thesaurus of official subject terms that can be used in the Proquest databases.
Enter a search term for your topic and click on the Find button.
Check the list of related terms to find any useful terms that you could use when searching for this topic.
If your topic includes multiple concepts, repeat this process for each of your concepts.
When you have a list of search terms for each concept, you're ready to do an advanced search on your full research question.

6. Click the New Search button at the top of the page and then click on the Advanced search tab to display the "Search by Word--Advanced" search page. This page includes four search boxes with a search field selection box for each ("Basic Fields" is pre-selected) .

7. Click in the first search box and type in search term(s) for your first concept. If you have more than one search term for the same concept, type OR between the terms.
Example: GENETIC ENGINEERING OR BIOTECHNOLOGY
[Use ? for truncation, * for wildcard (single character)]

8. Click the selection arrow at the right of the first search field selection box and select the Subject field.
(The Subject field will allow the most precise searches for specific topics. If, however, your search does not find any articles, you should try changing the field selection back to Basic Fields and then search again.)

9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 using the additional search and field boxes for each additional concept.

10. Click the Search button (at the bottom of the screen.)

11. After submitting a search, a list of all the records found for that search will be displayed, with up to 10 records shown on each Web page. To display the next 10 records, click on the Next box near the bottom of each page.

12. To display the full record for any article on the list, click on the title of the article (blue underlined words). To return to the list of records, click the Back button on the browser toolbar.

13. If the full record includes the full text of the article and you want to just display the citation and abstract, click Cite/Abstract at the left of the page.

14. To print the displayed record, click the Print Article box at the left of the page; then click on the "click here" link. The record will then be reformatted for printing and you can then click the print icon on the Netscape toolbar (or use the print command for any other browser program you may be using) to print out the displayed information.

To download the displayed record, click the Print Article box at the left of the page; then click on the "click here" link. The record will then be reformatted and you then select Save As... on Netscape's File pull-down menu (or use the save command for any other browser program you may be using) to save the article to your disk.

These materials may be used for educational purposes if you inform and credit the author and cite the source as: LSCI 105 Computerized Research. All commercial rights are reserved. To contact the author, send comments or suggestions to: Eric Brenner at brenner@smcccd.cc.ca.us