Lesson 5 – Proquest

1. Do a basic search on something of interest to you. Report your findings and observations.

Scrapbooking:  I received 1843 results among newspapers, trade journals, magazines, scholarly journals and other sources.  Here is an extensive list of ways to narrow my search including subject, classification, language, and date.  I can select related searches to find additional information if needed.  Once I find an article I am interested in reading I can view its abstract or the article in full text.  In some cases, a .pdf of the article is also available.  I found the articles Therapeutic Scrapbooking Groups at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Shown to Increase Caregivers' Ability to Cope With Their Child's Illness and New scrapbooking approach to help families affected by Alzheimer disease respectively from the November 12, 2011 and November 26, 2005 issues of Obesity, Fitness and Wellness Week of interest to me.

1.a. See what your Challenge cohort is discovering. Choose at least one other Challenge blog, read that person's post (about this or a previous lesson), and comment on it. You may like to check each other's blogs throughout the Challenge as you learn together.

I posted to GirlHuck.

2. Click the Publications tab at the top of the page. You will see an alphabetical list of the periodicals indexed in Proquest and the years included. Notice that this list is "Full text only." Do a search for a journal in your profession by typing a title or keyword in the search box. Report your findings and observations.

I did a search for the term, literacy.  I received 4 publications that matched that search:  Adult Basic Education, Communications in Information Literacy, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, and Literacy Research and Instruction.  The details for each publication give information, i.e. coverage and format, publisher, and ISSN.  The detail that I find the most interesting is the Publication Title History.  If a publication has changed its name, these changes including the date they happened is noted.  The list from my search for journals including the word literacy in the title Adult Basic Education because the journal was titled Adult Literacy and Basic Education until 1990.