Proquest

ProQuest: INDEXING & ARTICLES

offers full-text articles over a wide range of topics, and includes a good deal of health and nursing-related information.

To search outside the library (from home, etc.) you’ll need to know your WSU Network ID, and may want your e-mail address. 

From the Intercollegiate College of Nursing Library home page, choose the Indexes/Electronic Journals  link.

Under Article Indexes and Other Databases A to Z, choose *ProQuest Direct. 
   (If not at a WSU computer, you'll be asked for your Network ID)

For nursing purposes, there are several of the ProQuest databases which are more useful than others. Choose them this way:

Near the top of the screen, click on Databases selected.  Choose Clear all databases. 

Place a  in the checkbox for the following: 

  ProQuest Medical Library Combines MEDLINE indexing with full images for more coverage 

  Research Library (NOT complete or newspapers)  Search scholarly periodicals.

Press to reach the search screen.

These databases all contain some health-related journals.  If you are searching for news or current events information,  the different newspaper databases. 

Advanced Search lets you search citations and abstracts, publication titles, and author’s names.  Once you have some experience with the indexing, you may try using the Subject box, but the results are not predictable and consistent. 

To add more search boxes, press Add a row 

You can also choose the dates of publication, some types of articles, etc. 
Once you've entered terms, press  .
 

When you have a list of results, rapidly view entire articles by clicking on the blue underlined title, or on Full text.   To view a photocopy, click on Page Image - PDF

Read, print, or e-mail the articles as you wish.  Be sure to find and follow the on-screen instructions for the function you are performing. 

Save citations and/or articles in a single "marked" list by placing a in the box for each article. Then view, print, or e-mail the  .

You can always ask for assistance, by phone at 509-324-7344, by e-mail to Bob Pringle or Mary Wood, or in person. 

Students close to Yakima can ask about resources in the Reference Room, and by calling 509-494-7901. 

Those near Tri-Cities can get in touch with Harvey Gover at 509-372-7204.