Lesson 5: Proquest

I did a general search on Shellac nail polish and found a range of articles that discussed the science behind the polish as well as the product options that are currently available. There weren’t any pictures, so it didn’t look like the uploaded version of the journal articles, but rather just the text and information. It did generation several articles though, and I found most of them to be about specifics. (Example – how to remove shellac nail polish rather than an overview of the polish with the removal tips included.) I am sure this is due to the limited number of characters with the publication. Regardless, I found the search to be more useful when I was looking for a narrower component of the product.

I chose to comment on Mrs. Kafka’s post, as I really liked how she pointed out the option of limiting the search to certain publications.  Often I like to look at printed publications without a specific search in mind, and this would be a way to see the current practices in education.

I searched for educational journals, and I ended up looking at articles from Education and Information Technologies. They were initially organized in chronological order, which made it easy to see how practices were developed over time. I like how Proquest indicated the type of source that provided the articles as well.