eLibrary Help
b. Finding Your Way Around eLibrary
2. Search
(default landing page)
i. eLibrary is an aggregated data, online research tool. Within eLibrary, you will find general reference material consisting of newspapers, magazines, books, websites and transcripts. eLibrary is updated on a daily basis by the ProQuest editorial staff so users are exposed to the most relevant and current content our publishers have to offer.
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b. Finding Your Way Around eLibrary
i. Home Page Main Buttons - Search, Topics Publications and Reference.
ii. Search - Basic Search, Advanced Search and Popular Searches.
iii. Tools - My List, BookCarts, Timelines and Quizzes.
iv. Account - My eLibrary
v. Help - Launches Help page
vi. Contact Us - Links to customer feedback page, sales support, customer service, training and technical support.
vii. Exit - Ends user's eLibrary session and logs user out.
This button returns the user to the default eLibrary landing page where they can enter a basic search. A user can always get back to the eLibrary home screen by clicking here.
You can retrieve results from a
variety of media sources with our search functionality. Simply type in a word or phrase in the search
box, then click SEARCH to begin. By
clicking on a content-type icon you can toggle a specific check box to either
include or exclude the corresponding content type from your search. The Check All option allows you to search
through all the source types, while Clear All will allow you to clear all the
options and select the specific media or publication source you need. For
example, if you want a picture of a polar bear, turn off all source types
except Pictures before you start the search.
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Different Search Methods:
Natural
Language Search - With the
Natural Language Search option you can enter a full sentence or phrase to
receive relevance-ranked results. Both "distance of the earth from the
sun" or a question: "What is the distance of the earth from the
Sun?" will work. Place your search terms in context instead of using a
single word for the best results.
Boolean
Search - The
Boolean Search option allows you to enter multiple key words, or combine words
and phrases to precisely target your search. The Boolean operators, AND, OR,
and AND NOT are the tools that give you such precise control.
Advanced search allows a user to perform a detailed source search based
on more strictly defined parameters. By using the Advanced Search features, you
can narrow any search by publication date, article title, article language,
publisher, author or reading level, with or without entering search text. Note
that searching with too little detail can flood you with results that you don't
need. On the other hand, a search that's too specific may cut out information
you do need.
1. Click on the advanced search hotlink.
2. All fields on the advanced search form are optional. The more parameters the user defines, the narrower the search results will be.
3. Check the box that reads "Include newspaper articles older than 90 days" if you want to see those in your search results.
4. Check the box that reads "Search within scholarly journals only" if you want to exclude all media other than scholarly journals.
5. Select the date range you wish to conduct your search in.
6. You may choose to search within a specific topic only by clicking the hypertext to the right of the topic field. This will open the topic selection window where you will click the radio button that corresponds to the topic of your choice.
7. The document language drop-down allows the user to filter document results to specific language.
8. Users can input all or a partial document title if they want to search for a specific document.
9. Users can input an author name if they want to search on a specific author.
10. Users can input a publication name if they want to search on a specific publication.
11. Select a reading level from the drop-down or enter a Lexile number into the field to further narrow your search. Click the "Search National and State Standards" hypertext to launch the ProQuest State and National Standards tool.
The popular searches link will open a small window in the user's browser containing links to the 10 most popular search strings generated by eLibrary users for the past week.
Clicking one of the hyperlinks in the popular searches window initiates a basic eLibrary search on the chosen topic. The 'x' button in the right corner of the window closes the popular searches window.
Clicking the Topics button takes the user to the search/browse topics page.
Here the user can enter a topic name into the search field or browse the list of topics and choose one. Clicking on a topic link drills down in the topic hierarchy where the user can access sub-topics.
This button takes the user to the publication browse page where a user can enter a specific publication and search or browse all available publications alphabetically.
Clicking the Reference button on the eLibrary home screen will display the reference search area. Here users can enter keywords into the search field. The returned results will be from reference sources only.
Click the My List hyperlink to view content that you have saved to your
My List throughout your eLibrary session. Remember that if you logout before you save your My List your changes
will be lost.
The items you have selected while logged into eLibrary will appear in a numbered list as illustrated below. Users can permanently save the new list created by typing a file name into the "save as new list" field on the left margin, and clicking save. Items can also be added to an existing My List by choosing that list from the drop-down box and clicking the corresponding save button.
Users can easily work between their searches and their My List by clicking the hyperlink Return to most recent search result shown below.
Remember that if you logout before you save your My List your changes will be lost.
Clicking the Bookcarts link takes the user to the page where users can
manage the bookcarts they have access to. (Full information about making use of
Bookcarts can be
found here, including access to 800+ model Bookcarts, etc.)
The default view for the bookcart page is the "all bookcarts" view. This will load all bookcarts from all folders, shown below.
If folders have been created for the eLibrary account, the folders will be displayed in alphabetical order. Each will be a link which will open all bookcarts in that folder.
Users can search all bookcarts they have permissions for by entering the name or partial name of the bookcart into the Search bookcarts field shown below.
Click the Timelines button to access the timeline area of eLibrary.
From the timelines page, users can create new timelines or search existing timelines via the interface below. Existing timelines can be browsed and sorted by clicking a number or letter link under the timeline search fields.
1. If you have not created an eLibrary account, you will have to do so in order to create a timeline.
2. Click on the create timeline hyperlink.
3. A new window will be generated with the fields illustrated below. Fill in the fields with the appropriate information and click continue
4. After clicking continue you will see the form below where you can create a specific event for your timeline.
5. Fill in the details for your specific event and click "create" in order to save that item onto your timeline.
6. Repeat until all of your timeline items are created.
You may edit or delete timeline items by clicking the appropriate edit or delete buttons shown below.
- Saving your timeline is done by clicking the save button.
- You may also preview your timeline by clicking the preview button.
Click the Quizzes hyperlink to access the eLibrary quiz page. (Find out more about making Quizzes here.)
You will need to enter your name into the name field and click 'GO' to access the quizzes your administrators have made available to you.
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Newspapers
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Magazines
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Books
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Maps
Websites
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Pictures
vi.
Audio/Video
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Transcripts
eLibrary features special pages that focus on specific content related to topics that are often searched on. Special pages can be about a person, place or event and contain content hand-picked and organized by the ProQuest editorial staff.
If there is a special page available for the topic you are searching it will be displayed in a window above your regular search results as shown in the illustration below. Special pages can be expanded, collapsed or closed by using the toggle buttons in the upper corner of the page.
Displayed below is the features area of eLibrary. This area of the eLibrary default page is dedicated to current events, hot topics, historical anniversaries or any other item ProQuest editors would like to showcase.
