Support : eNewsletters : Training Updates : Issue 4, December 2011

Learn about ProQuest Dialog™ at your own pace

Short modules, search aids, user and administrator guides — learn about ProQuest Dialog with just a few clicks!

At-a-Glance modules

Use At-a-Glance modules to review what you learned in an online training session or to delve into specific features of ProQuest Dialog. The modules reflect the interface changes and new functionality. Click the Training tab on the ProQuest Dialog Customer page to review:

• Basic, Advanced or Command Line Search modules to take you step-by-step through the search process
• My Research — the session demonstrates features of this powerful tool including saving searches and Alerts and organizing documents in your own personal space
• Using the online thesaurus
• Limiting with dates
• Online Help
• Citation look-up
• Language preference and on-the-spot translation
• Using truncation and boolean operators

Begin successful searching on ProQuest Dialog with our Getting Started Guide for Searchers and User Checklist.

For Administrators

Under the Migration tab, A Step-by-Step Overview for Administrators and Checklist spell out everything you need to know to set accounts up on ProQuest Dialog. Two self-paced modules are also available — My Research Administrator (MyRA) illustrates setting up user accounts and customizing the search interface, and ProQuest Administrator Module (PAM) describes how to customize the interface to your account, create links to your e-journal subscriptions, set up assistant administrators and order usage reports.

Also from the Migration tab, learn how to:

• Create, edit and delete Alerts
• Test and edit saved searches

Key places to find the answers

By reviewing FAQs, the Support Center and ProQuest Dialog ProSheets, you can find nuggets of information to help you formulate precise searches. These are just a few:

• ProQuest Dialog Support Center — includes "What’s New" in the latest release, new Search Solutions, Hot Topics and top FAQs — all in one searchable location.
• ProQuest Dialog Search Guide 2011 — provides an invaluable one-stop resource to help you migrate to the new ProQuest Dialog service. It provides key information about search, discovery, and analysis features, along with insight concerning query language comparisons, syntax conversions and examples of searches in various subject topics.
• Search Solutions — The Path to Successful Search — offer concise, step-by-step instructions enabling searchers to find the most-requested information on ProQuest Dialog. Feel confident knowing these applications, prepared by our subject experts, are the most effective strategies for the topic — no experimenting or guesswork necessary. Watch for more applications to come!
• ProQuest Dialog Help — understand how to conduct a precise search, use Search Tips explaining operators, fields, and special characters, operator precedence, search fields, wildcards and truncation and subject searching qualifiers.
• ProQuest Dialog ProSheets — include database descriptions, available search fields with examples showing you how to create precise searches, limit options and more. Experienced and novice users will welcome these new data sheets.

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