Basic Search
Basics
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Select the ABI/INFORM Complete database. Make sure that you choose the correct database, as the databases are generally sorted alphabetically.
- Basic Search is what shows up first, emphasized by the orange highlighting of the tab.
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The database is already chosen for you--"Business-ABI/INFORM Complete". The database(s) that you have selected is listed immediately under the colored tabs on this page (Figure 2, 3a). If you opt to click on the link "Select multiple databases" (Figure 2, 3b), the page will take you back to your earlier location, where you can select multiple databases using checkboxes.
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There is an alphabetical topic list that can be browsed (Figure 2, 4a). This topic list contains both companies and subjects. You can "Add to Search" the companies and/or subjects that you wish by selecting the
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Choose a "date range:" anything from the last 7 days, last 30 days, last 3 months, last 12 months to a specific date.
- You can limit your results to "Full text articles only" (Figure
2, 6a) and/or "Scholarly journals, including peer reviewed" (Figure
2, 6b). Here is what PROQUEST has to say about the definition of these two
terms.
A publication is considered to be SCHOLARLY if it is authored by academics for a target audience that is mainly academic, the printed format isn't usually a glossy magazine, and it is published by a recognized society with academic goals and missions.
A publication is considered to be PEER REVIEWED if its articles go through an official editorial process that involves review and approval by the author's peers, people who are experts in the same subject area. Most, but not all scholarly publications, are peer reviewed. Some trade publications are actually peer reviewed, but ProQuest does not consider them when filtering on peer reviewed. This is because getting results from trade publications instead of academic journals can be frustrating to researchers. Instead, ProQuest excludes these peer reviewed trade publications and only considers publications that are scholarly in terms of content, intent, and audience.
Figure 2