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Saving Search Strategies for sharing with others

Learn how to save a search to share with others.

How to save a search in ProQuest to share

How to create a saved search strategy in ProQuest without creating a personal login.

Faculty often want students to look at articles on a topic, but could only keep the search strategy and hope that students copied and pasted it into the search box correctly. You can now make sure that the strategy is exactly what you want: the exact databases you searched and the exact limits to the specific type of article, publication date, etc.

  1. You may log into any specific ProQuest database or do one for all databases from ProQuest.
  2. Example with ERIC (Proquest) : 

Using this sample question, here is one possible keyword search strategy that could be used.

How can parents help preschoolers learn to read and enjoy it?

The keyword search strategy used. Note that the search doesn't start with any special limits like peer-reviewed because this is checking to see if the keyword search strategy is a good one first:

 

  1. Once you see how many items there are, you may want to then limit by the 5 most recent years of publication. You can do that on the left using the DATE SLIDER bar.

 

Before:                                                                                                  After the date change:

          

Note: If you need specific dates, such as for a historical event or items that come out in the next year, use the ENTER A DATE RANGE option to set the dates.

  1. If you like the general direction of the list, you can stop here or decide that you want only scholarly articles. You can click on the scholarly articles to get just those, or click on MORE to see the full list of article options. Note that the list does tell you how many of each type exists in the list.

                    Choose  one type here by clicking on it, or                                Use the MORE list to choose one or more types:

  

 

  1. You can keep adjusting your search or even start over. Whatever is in the search and all of the limits box to the left of the list of articles is exactly what gets saved for the search.

 

  1. At this point, you can save the search by clicking on the SAVE SEARCH/ALERT drop down over on the right hand side just above the first item in the list.

 

 

  1.  Here is the Link:

              http://login.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/search/1755983?accountid=4485

  1. The link stays live for 1 year.
  2. This is what the saved search looks like when the save link is used. Note the limiters are added to the search

Note: if you want to see which databases were used, click on DATABASES in the tool bar to scroll through the list for the checked databases.

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