I searched Winter Olympics at the Proquest site and found a wealth of information available. The related searches tab on the left makes it very easy to find the most specific subjects. You could pick specific athletes, sports, profiles, advertisements used, personal profiles, etc. Also, the publication dates would be helpful if you are looking for a certain time period.
I was not really impressed with the Publications tab. I tried typing in different subjects and was told nothing was found. I did find some information on the Civil War, but to me this was not very user friendly. I guess I'm not sure what full text means, but I assumed that if I went to a magazine I would get the "full text" article but it would just give me table of contents on the couple I clicked on. Maybe I need to give it more time but I think if I were doing some research I would use some of the other sites already studied in this class.
You are doing fine, JFrank! Your first paragraph here shows that you know how to cruise in here. The Publications tab is more for when you know the title of the journal. When you type in this search box, you are asking it to find journals with that word in the title. It can be a good way to find professional development material. When you find a journal, it will tell you what the coverage is. You can then click to view the latest issue, type a search in the search box to search across all the issues of that journal, or scroll down and click to read back issues. The entire journal is available, one article at a time. I hope that description helps. We recommend starting in SIRS Issues Researcher and then going to ProQuest if you need more info. Thanks for your comments!
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