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The ProQuest search has replaced the former Scholars Portal Search, and most databases are available through ProQuest now. Trent currently subscribes to:

• Alt-Press Watch
  • A full text database comprised of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.
• ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
• Biological Sciences
• BioOne
• Canada's Heritage from 1844 - The Globe and Mail
  • The pages of the Globe and Mail chronicle Canadian history since 1844.
• Canadian Newsstand Major Dailies
  • Newspapers 1985-current
• CBCA Business
  • Business and Finance: Journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters
• CBCA Current Events
  • News: Newspapers, newswires, transcripts, magazines
• CBCA Education
  • Education: Journals, magazines, newsletters
• CBCA Reference
  • General Reference: Journals, magazines, newsletters
• EconLit
• Environmental Science & Pollution Management
• ERIC
• GenderWatch
  • A full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and NGO, government and special reports.
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
• MLA
• Philosopher's Index
• PILOTS
  • traumatic stress
• Proquest Dissertations and Theses
  • PQDT — Full Text includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
• ProQuest Education Journals
• ProQuest Nursing Journals
  • Nursing, Allied Health: Journals, Magazines, Dissertations
• PsycARTICLES
• PsycINFO
• Social Services Abstracts
• Sociological Abstracts

You can select specific databases to search and see descriptions of each, using the blue bar at the top of the screen: click "Change".

The ProQuest Search replaces the former Scholars Portal Search, as of July 2011.

Search Tips:

• a Basic Search assumes AND between terms
• use "quotes" for phrases
• * replaces 0 or more characters at the middle or end of a word (truncation)
• ? replaces any single character in the middle or at the end of a word (wildcard)
• the ProQuest interface uses "Subjects" instead of "Descriptors"

A stable url (or persistent link) is a link that connects a user to a particular item in a database or on the web.

When you have full record for an item, look for "Document URL" at the bottom. Check to see if the the proxy prefix is included. Copy this link for a stable url. See the image below:

Some ProQuest databases use the doi system to create a stable link.

To link to a particular article via doi, look for the line that provides a doi and use it create a link.

Example:
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2009.02.013
Link: http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2009.02.013

To ensure off-campus access, include the proxy prefix:
http://web2.trentu.ca:2048/login?url=

Since this database also contains links to you can use the "Save Citation" data to create a link to the article.