ProQuest Challenge

The topic of interest I searched for on Proquest was Organic Food, which was a very general topic - 4063 documents.  Narrowing down the search by using the “Results” box and choosing Organic Farming from the suggested topics cut the results in half.  I continued to use the “Results” box until I found an area that I wanted to research more.  What a helpful tool when you have an idea in mind, but not sure in which direction you’d like to go. 

CHS Read – Your search for information on medical marijuana, and the importance of using different search terms or phases until you find the information you want is a great suggestion. 

For the Publications portion of this challenge, I was amazed at the amount of magazines available.  After reading the “Search Tip” section, finding a specific magazine was easy.  Just needed to use quotation marks to specify it was a title I was looking for.  I wanted to see if Consumer Reports was available, and it was, but was a little disappointed that there were only “abstracts” and no “Full Text” articles.  I also found that some of the publications were pretty current while others were delayed by years.  On a personal note, I realized that I prefer the PDF version of the full text article more than just the full text. The format reminded me more of a magazine and included pictures when I searched things like ceramics.