Category: Proquest

PsycARTICLES now accessible through the ProQuest platform

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The PsycARTICLES full-text database previously accessed through the EBSCOhost platform is now available through the ProQuest interface. Links and all related metadata have been updated in Library OneSearch, including the transfer of the previous category/subjects assignments. Access remains direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. Remote searching (metasearching) of the PsycARTICLES service has also been enabled in LOS.

Listings in SFX for all full-text PsycARTICLES’ journals have been migrated to integrate with the new ProQuest platform.

PsycARTICLES - ProQuest platform

New resource: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses – UK and Ireland

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses – UK and Ireland collection has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Access to the collection, which can be cross-searched alongside other databases on the search.proquest.com platform, is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — UK & ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland provides details of doctoral theses awarded by institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland dating back to 1716. Along with detailed descriptive records, including a large proportion of abstracts, the service provides PDF previews of selected theses, where these are available. The collection covers PhD theses in the following subject areas: business, health and medicine, history, literature and language, science and technology, social sciences, and the arts.

Previously, theses records were made available through the Index to Theses service (provided by Expert Information), prior to the ProQuest’s acquisition of the collection. As access to the Index to Theses platform continues to be made available (for the time being, at least), the entry for Index to Theses has been retained in Library OneSearch as an alternate entry point to the dataset.

ProQuest: downtime for upgrades – Sunday 16 February 2014

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

ProQuest will be carrying out a scheduled upgrade of its online services on Sunday 16 February 2014, with an eight-hour ‘at risk’ period starting (for UK customers) at 03:00, and finishing at 11:00.

During that period access to all databases on the search.proquest.com platform may be unavailable at times or throughout. The affected databases are:

  • Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)
  • ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)
  • Australian Education Index
  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
  • British Education Index
  • British Humanities Index (BHI)
  • British Periodicals (1681 – 1937)
  • Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)
  • Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
  • ERIC
  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
  • MLA International Bibliography
  • Periodicals Archive Online
  • PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress
  • ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland
  • Social Services Abstracts
  • Sociological Abstracts
  • The Vogue Archive

RefWorks will also be affected during the same upgrade period. ProQuest indicate:

During this time period RefWorks users can expect sporadic availability, including short periods of complete downtime. We anticipate that access issues and possible functionality problems will last anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes. If you experience issues with RefWorks during this maintenance window we recommend that you close your browser session, and return to RefWorks at a later time.

New resource: Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive (Proquest)

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive (on the Proquest platform) has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive can be cross-searched alongside any of the other databases on the Proquest platform, and records from the archive can be added to a individual researcher’s RefWorks account without leaving the Proquest interface. The resource is described as follows:

The Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive contains primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in high-resolution color, with all articles, covers, advertisements and reviews indexed.

New resource: Periodicals Archive Online (Proquest)

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to the Periodicals Archive Online collection (on the Proquest platform) has been enabled in Library OneSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The PAO can be cross-searched alongside any of the other databases on the Proquest platform, and records from the PAO can be added to a individual researcher’s RefWorks account without leaving the Proquest interface. The resource is described as follows:

Periodicals Archive Online contains the full-text of over 700 journals spanning the humanities and social sciences, across 37 key subject areas. Coverage is from volume 1 issue 1 of each journal and all issues are digitized from cover to cover. Whilst the majority of titles are peer-reviewed academic journals, a number of other selected publications are included that were not originally scholarly in nature but offer relevant research material. The archive is international in scope with the inclusion of more than 150 foreign-language titles.

Title-level access to all of the individual journals in the PAO will be enabled in SFX and Library OneSearch once Proquest and Ex Libris have made the datasets available in the SFX Knowledge Base.

Chadwyck Healey – Shibboleth configuration changes

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Following changes to Shibboleth configuration on the Chadwyck Healey database platform, off-campus deep-link login URLs for the following services have been updated in Library OneSearch:

  • ABELL
  • EEBO
  • House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) – 18th Century
  • House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) – 19th Century
  • House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) – 20th Century
  • John Johnson Collection
  • LION
  • MLA

Withdrawn resource: The Economist (online)

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to electronic version of The Economist journal concludes today at the end of LLR’s subscription to the resource through the ProQuest platform.

Access has been switched off in SFX, the ejournal record suppressed in Aleph and the entry in Library OneSearch will be updated shortly.

ProQuest platform – off-campus access problems resolved

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The technical issues preventing off-campus access (via university username and password) to databases on the ProQuest platform reported yesterday have now been resolved.

Off-campus access to all of the databases on the platform has been confirmed as fully functional once again.

ProQuest platform – off-campus access currently unavailable

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

LLR is working with the ProQuest Support team to resolve an issue which is preventing off-campus access (via university username and password) to databases on the ProQuest platform. (On-campus access is working normally.) At present, off-campus login requests complete, but loop back to the login page without authenticating the requester.

The affected databases are:

  • Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)‎ (1987 – current)
  • ARTbibliographies Modern (ABM)‎ (1974 – current)
  • Australian Education Index (AEI)
  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals‎ (1934 – current)
  • Australian Education Index (AEI)
  • British Humanities Index (BHI)‎ (1962 – current)
  • British Periodicals‎ (1681 – 1937)
  • Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI)‎ (1973 – current)
  • ERIC‎ (1966 – current)
  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)‎ (1951 – current)
  • PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress‎ (1871 – current)
  • Social Services Abstracts‎ (1979 – current)
  • Sociological Abstracts‎ (1952 – current)
  • The Vogue Archive‎

A further update will follow once the issue has been successfully resolved.

Withdrawn platforms: CSA Illumina, Chadwyck-Healey and (legacy) ProQuest

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

As previously advised access to the CSA Illumina, Chadwyck-Healey and (legacy) ProQuest platforms ends tomorrow (21 August 2012).

All of LLR’s subscription resources that could be moved to the new ProQuest platform were migrated at the start of the year, but from tomorrow any library customers who had bookmarked access to these withdrawn platforms will no longer be able to access them, and will be directed to the new ProQuest interface.

Three of LLR’s subscription resources will continue to be made available on one of the Chadwyck-Healey platforms not yet configured for migration:

  1. MLA International Bibliography
  2. LION (Literature Online)
  3. ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature)

These resources will be migrated to the new platform as soon as ProQuest has finished the necessary configuration work.

New resource: The Vogue Archive

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

Access to The Vogue Archive is now available in Library OneSearch and eSearch. Access is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. The resource is described as follows:

A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world’s greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.

Migrating resources to the new ProQuest platform

Head of Discovery and Digital Futures

The following resources have been migrated from the CSA Illumina, Dialog DataStar and Chadwyck-Healey platforms to the new integrated ProQuest discovery platform:

* ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts)
* ARTBibibliographies Moderns
* Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
* British Periodicals, 1680s-1930s
* DAAI (Design and Applied Arts Index)
* IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
* Sociological Abstracts

* AEI (Australian Education Index)
* BEI (British Education Index)
* ERIC

Configurations for access to all these resources on the Proquest platform have been enabled in Library OneSearch, and their previous category and sub-category assignments recreated. Access to all of these resources is direct on-campus and by university username and password from off-campus. All of these resources are remote searchable in Library OneSearch.

For the titles in the British Periodicals, 1680s-1930s collection, SFX entries for the full-text content has been migrated from the Chadwyck-Healey to the new ProQuest platform. Outbound SFX integration (from the new platform to SFX) has also been configured and enabled.

Due to current licensing arrangements, in the native interface of the new ProQuest platform, the three education databases (AEI, BEI and ERIC) are managed separately from the other resources on the platform (see illustrations below), although the ERIC database appears in both ‘collections’.

In addition, full-text backfile access to The Economist (from 1992), currently available on the new ProQuest platform, has been enabled in SFX.