ProQuest – Advanced Search Techniques
With ProQuest you can create very complex search strategies. You can also limit your search
to specific publications. The example below shows a search for articles on Sarbanes-oxley
found in publications that contain the word account, accountant, accounting, accountancy, etc.,
in the title. The code so in so(account*) means source, or publication title. The term
account* will find any words in titles that start with account. The asterisk * is called a
truncation symbol. It acts like a wildcard to find variant forms of the stem account.
You could also limit your search to specific publications, for example:
sarbanes-oxley and so(forbes)
arthur andersen and so(business week)
enron and so(black enterprise)
worldcom and so(journal of accountancy)
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Searching by Article Type
You can also limit your search to article type. Some of the possible article types include: cover
story, editorial, feature, interview and speech. The following example shows a search for
speeches about accounting and fraud or scandals. The asterisk * after scandal will search for
either scandal or scandals.
Article type is
set to speech.
This example
shows a search
for cover stories
on Enron. The co
in co(enron)
stands for
company.
Article type is set
to cover story.
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