The Ambrose Library has ProQuest databases on Religion, Social Sciences, History, and Business, among others. ProQuest is a good place to go if you're looking for secondary sources in these disciplines. Here is a page with information on how to use ProQuest: Search ProQuest.
Here is a short video on how to conduct a search to find the type of source you're looking for in ProQuest:
Some of the library's databases are hosted on the ProQuest platform:
Search publicly available scholarly content through ProQuest's Publicly Available Content Database. ProQuest also provides a way to search for just dissertations and theses in all their databases at once.
When you first enter ProQuest's home page, you can start with a basic search, advanced search, a publication search, and the ability to change databases. If you change databases, you can select one, or multiple databases hosted by ProQuest. For this tutorial, we will be using Advanced Search.
Below the basic search bar, there are Search Tips, which will walk you through a search, and link to their own guide. The Advanced Search includes search fields, and search filters where you can select where you want the term to be searched.
Below that you can limit the search to Full Text and/or Peer Reviewed, select a publication date, source type, document type, and language.
For the initial search, you can search Bonhoeffer and faith. You can leave the search filters to the right of the search terms as Anywhere.
You will have 281 results. From the result screen, you can see the results number, a list of results, and the option to limit your search more on the left. You can select one, or many articles on the left of each title, which will allow you to cite, email the list, save your search which requires an account, or more save and export options.
281 results are too many. You will want to narrow them down, so to do that you can select Subject on the left hand side, and select a topic. In this case Theology will be chosen.
Selecting theology will give you 59 results. From here you can begin to select the articles you want, or you can narrow it down even more.
You can narrow it down further by selecting source type. In order to see more than what is listed you can select More > at the bottom of the list, and it will open a pop up. This will allow you to include or exclude different filters, such as subject, language, location, person, etc.
For this you can select include Trade Journals.
You will have 7 results. On the results screen you can also see what filters you have applied to the search, and delete them if your search does not result in what you are looking for.
When you look at an article on the results screen, you can see the Title, author(s), highlighted phrases if relevant to the search, a link to Abstract/Details, Full Text which will take you directly to the article, a link to download the full text, and the same options as above, cite, email, or save.
Above the article image, is a link labelled Quick look, which will show you a quick look into the article, with buttons at the top to allow you to review each article.
Selecting an article will take you directly to the abstract, and will show you more information. Below the title is the publishing information. Below that, on the left of the article you can read the digital abstract, full text article, or the PDF article.
Clicking Abstract/Details will give you more information on subjects, people mentioned, keywords, publisher, and more. Articles can be translated, and you can hide or show highlighting from the search.
On the right of the title, you can see the journal that published the article, and more links to cite, download the PDF, copy URL, print, and more. Below that, ProQuest will list suggested sources that are related to the article you are viewing.
Newspaper articles are similar to the theological, with some exceptions. From the home page, you are able to browse newspapers alphabetically, by company, by location, by people, and by subject. \
When you do an advanced search in the historical newspapers databases, below the advanced search fields you will be able to search subject, company, location, person, and creative work.
When looking at a newspaper article, you can view the article itself, the whole page from the newspaper, and you can browse the issue you are currently looking at.
Education Journals are similar to the religion collection, with some exceptions. Below the Abstract/Details button, you can see References, and Documents with shared references, and the count. On the right, you can search with indexing terms.
