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With ProQuest Dialog™ it is easy to find specific articles and verify citations. Learn how you can enter what you know about the title and bibliographic data and find that obscure reference you thought was impossible to find. This short module takes you through the steps to success in document verification with the Look Up Citation tool.
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You've been asked by a colleague to see if you can find a journal article entitled "Energy Use, Cost and CO2 Emissions of Electric Cars." This was published in the Journal of Power Sources on February 15, 2011. You know the author is Oscar Van Vliet.
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Log onto ProQuest Dialog. In the opening screen on the top left, click the drop-down menu for Advanced. Choose Look Up Citation.
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The Look Up Citation form appears. Enter as much as you know of the document title. You can enter the author name either first name followed by last name or last name followed by first name. As you begin to enter the publication title, ProQuest Dialog autosuggests journal names. If you know the ISSN or ISBN numbers enter them, the volume number and publication year if available. Perhaps you want to include duplicate citations so you can compare and choose the most advantageous one for your purposes. Click Search.
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ProQuest Dialog found citations. The detailed view of the Results shows the titles, the publication dates and the databases where the citations were found. You can preview results by clicking the Preview button. If you have set up your account for outbound linking you can link directly to the full text. Click on a title to get to the full database record, which in this case will be an abstract.
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Customers with transactional accounts will see a price advisory of the record cost. Press Continue to view the record.
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This is the full record available in the database. You can link to the full text through your library's link resolver or you can order the full text from Infotrieve document delivery service.
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Now, let's look at additional features available in Look Up Citation. Click on Look up publications to look for specific journals.
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A query box opens where you can search journal names either contained in the title or beginning words. Scroll down and check off the boxes to the left of the appropriate journal titles. Click Add to search.
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Add any other pertinent information. Notice that you can enter as much of the title as you know and just the author's last name. Include duplicate documents and press Search.
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You pulled up additional citations. The "2" in "CO2" in the first and last records appears as a subscript and had not been found in the initial search that included "CO2". Searching for a couple of words in the title unearthed it. Click a title to view or Select records to keep and work with during the session later, emailing, printing or saving them to your hard drive.
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To sum up, in Look Up Citation enter as much of the information as you know. This new example shows a search for an article about Type 1 diabetes and hyperglycemia and the heart. You can use truncation. In this title you want to be sure to pick up variant spellings on the term hyperglycemia, whether British or American spellings. You can enter the author's name with first name, last name, last name, first name or just last name.
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ProQuest Dialog finds results and you can choose to browse brief or detailed views of the titles. This is the Detailed view. Click on a title to see a full record, or you can select records to view, save to My Research, email, print, cite or save to your hard drive. Notice that certain databases have links directly to the full text and graphics or full text in PDF.
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The full record page provides links to other formats, such as full text PDF for certain databases. In Lancet Titles click on Full text PDF, and take note also that you can link to references cited in the article.
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ProQuest Dialog opens the PDF and note that you have not left ProQuest Dialog.
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You have learned in this module that you can access Look Up Citation by clicking under Advanced at the top left of any screen.
Enter as much information as you know. Author searching is easy in ProQuest Dialog. You can search by first name last name, last name first name, or just last name.
Be sure to visit the ProQuest Dialog Customer Information page to learn about the content and features of this new service.
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Thank you for taking the ProQuest Dialog At a Glance module on Look Up Citation. Press the Training and the Support tabs on the ProQuest Dialog Customer Information page for more search aids and training options.
