ProQuest offers various output options, including e-mail, print, save and an option to export their search records. Once users are done with their searching they will have an opportunity to Save their searches to the My Research account that can be obtained by users who have created one. Once an account is created, users can save their searches and will be able to access it anytime when logged into ProQuest however, if users forget to click the Save button then all search results will be lost when logged out.
ProQuest search results can be emailed simply by clicking on the check box next to your results. The blue icon is located at the top of the database to the right of the Search Within button right under the Related Searches. Once the
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Users can be guided through each search method by using the Help option to find resources. Wildcard and Truncate search options are available for convenience if users are unsure of their search terms. However, like most search options the best way for a user to narrow in on a search is to use a Boolean statement. ProQuest offers many other options to help users export and save their searches for future use and for users to be a part of a network linking its users to computer systems …show more content…
If you click on this button you will be provided with expanded instructions on performing searches, special search methods, limiting search results, ranking results, and general database browsing information. Given its robust features, advanced help options and availability in multiple languages, it is clear to me that the ProQuest database was built to be a powerful, yet accessible, research tool for its users.
Conclusion
ProQuest is a beneficial, easy to navigate web based database for anyone seeking e-books to journals and many to more sources. This database is a good resource to use and keeps users organized and links them to detailed records that give information containing all you need to know about the source.
Most users will find what they are looking for the first times when conducting searches due to the database sufficiently being able to decode natural language. As users navigate through the website they will find many icons and tabs to help them through their searches. One does not have to be an expert to conduct searches using this database and will be able to use the simple search index to retrieve a desirable number of sources if the user knows exactly what they are trying to retrieve. This database would be an essential tool for students, teachers, or any patron to meet their informational
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Information Retrieval (IR) is to represent, retrieve from storage and organise the information. The information should be easily access. User will be more interested with easy access information. Information retrieval process is the skills of searching for documents, for information within documents and for metadata about documents, as well as that of searching relational databases and the World Wide Web. According to (Shing Ping Tucker, 2008), E-commerce is rapidly a growing segment in the internet.
I prefer the layout of Ebsco Host because of the way the information can be filtered all in one location. ProQuest has some good qualities, for instance, the database with a wide range of data coming for not only sources within the U.S. When searching for accurate data, unless the researcher only wants data from a specific region I believe having a range of data is more helpful. Both of the databases have its own unique pros and cons to them but it only depends on the type of research one is doing at the time. Both are organized and have a beautiful layout. Both have a plethora of articles from a wide range of sources. Both are filled with reliable sources and offer full text articles. Generally speaking they both are very helpful and I would
This database will serve a diverse range users, each with different needs. Prior to constructing this database, I created a list of questions that I suspected may have been of interest to a given stakeholder, and then ensured that my database could answer them. I have listed a sample of these questions in Appendix I and have provided relevant queries to demonstrate the usefulness of the database.
Basic Search TechniquesSince the Google web interface is so easy to use, I won't describe the basic functionality of the http://www.google.com/ web page. Instead, I'll focus on the various operators available:
When we learn the skills of research on The internet, we will able to found what we want effectively and can save a lot of time.
I found that PsycINFO database from Ovid is useful and reliable as apart from providing clear reference details for every text, it highlights keywords in search results, and this really raise efficiency. The following three research papers are the most relevant sources for this topic.
In today’s fast paced technology, search engines have become vastly popular use for people’s daily routines. A search engine is an information retrieval system that allows someone to search the...
IR systems receiving such queries need to fill in the gaps of the user’s underspecified query. For example, user typing “nuclear waste dumpling” into the search engine such as Google is probably searching for multiple number of documents that describing the topic. Some of the documents might not archive what user need as the search engine search documents that relate to the three worlds only. The content being searched is typically unstruc...
If personal searches are not preferrable, further convenience is provided by providing your own data and allowing a computer code to analyze said data and match it with similar data of other users and gauge the viability of a relationship.
meta-search engines: A survey, 2012. Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement Yu, and King lup Liu.
Purpose: Allow users to be able to find information in many different languages; check stock quotes, maps, and news headlines; lookup phonebook listings for every city in the United States; search billions of images and peruse the world's largest archive of Usenet messages. In addition, support thousands of advertisers to use Google’s AdWords program to promote their products and services on the web with targeted advertising.
Search engines are not very complex in the way that they work. Each search engine sends out spiders to bots into web space going from link to link identifying all pages that it can. After the spiders get to a web page they generally index all the words on that page that are publicly available pages at the site. They then store this information into their databases and when you run a search it matches they key words you searched with the words on the page that the spider indexed. However when you are searching the web using a search engine, you are not searching the entire web as it is presently. You are looking at what the spiders indexed in the past.
Ontology contains a set of concepts and relationship between concepts, and can be applied into information retrieval to deal with user queries.