PerformingASearchOnProquest

Performing a search on Proquest is very easy. Here are some steps to help you perform a search on Proquest.

1.) Go to [|www.merion-mercy.com.]

2.) Go to Quick Links at the top of the page and choose Library/Media Resources.

3.) Once there, go to Electronic Resources on the righthand side of the page.

4.) Choose Proquest.

5.) It should bring you to a page that looks like this. After you reach this page, then click on eLibrary Curriculum Edition.

6.) When at home, type in the usename and password found on [|Mrs. Stang's eboard].

7.) This page should appear after you click eLibrary Curriculum Edition. This is search page.

8.) To perform a basic search, just click the basic search at the top of the page, type in your topic, and choose the sources you would like your results to be in.

9.) To perform an advanced search, you click on advanced search at the top of the page. A search bar should come up and then you type in your topic you are researching and press the green button.

10) You can also refine your search by checking the boxes of the different sources below the search bar.

Here is a sample search for immigration in the basic search option with all of the blue sources checked. Here are the results of the search for Immigration:

Here is what the first page in our results page looks like: