4. Proquest
I'll admit, I am not a reasearch fanatic. I think proquest would be very helpful to someone needing information but it was a little overwhelming to me. There was much information on the medical topic I chose and it was time consuming to narrow down my search. If I had a life threatening health problem I would find this site very helpful, wanting to know everything I could about the topic.
Looking through my cohorts' blogs I find that many of them are procrastinators like myself or as I like to say just busy with life. It seems that everyone is equally impressed with resources available through the state library.
I was very frustrated using proquest publications. I even pulled up the 2 page list of directions and could still only get the cite page and summary even after created an account for my research. After 20 minutes I decided I will have to come back to this challenge when I am not pressed for time and read through it more slowly evn looking through some of my cohorts notes. I guess I shouldn't expect everything to be super easy. :(
Hi, busymom! Thanks for giving ProQuest a try. Now you know where to turn for research needs. We like ProQuest for its breadth of coverage--popular, trade, and scholarly publications. I hope you'll take another look at this when you have a spare moment (what's that, right?) Above your search results, you will see "Suggested topics" to help you narrow your search. You can also narrow it using the methods along the right sidebar. You can even choose only popular journals if scholarly are too much. In the publications search, remember that you are searching words in the titles of magazines. So, for example, if you type in "housekeeping," you will get Good Housekeeping, available from 1988 to the present--cover to cover, for free! Thanks for your comments. We hope you'll give this another try.
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