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Access articles and electronic books from the Library's subscription databases from off-campus! When you click on a database, you will be prompted for your user name (your student ID) and PIN (the two-digit month and day of your birth in MMDD format). You can also go directly to https://library.wlac.edu.

Example for student with ID number 88-123-4567 born February 25th:

User name: 881234567
PIN: 0225

Watch the video tutorial below for a demonstration of how to search ProQuest databases.

Search ProQuest below for articles related to dental hygiene or mortuary studies.

Below are suggested databases and search tips for your research.

• Use AND to narrow your results by searching for two keywords simultaneously. 
  Example: cavities AND flossing
• Use OR to broaden your results by searching for either of two or more keywords
  Enclose terms separated by OR in parentheses
  Example: (cavities OR caries)
• Use quotation marks ("") to search for terms as a phrase
  Example: "tooth decay"
• Use asterisks to retrieve additional forms of a word
  Example: teen* retrieves teens, teenager, teenagers, teenaged.
• Limit results to academic or scholarly sources for academic sources.
• Limit results to reviews to see just book reviews.
• Limit results to desired time period

Putting it all together

Use all the above search tip sto refine your search. 
Example: ("tooth decay" OR caries OR cavities) AND (children OR youth OR adolescen*)

Find additional information through the following databases.

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