The document you want to request from ProQuest support was called
Federated-Search.docx when they sent it to me. This will address many of your
documentation needs.
ProQuest used to have an excel spreadsheet with all of the product codes for
the databases available for download from
Interesting, thanks for the additional information, very useful!
I don't like relying on the 'free text' in subfield 3, because it seems
fragile, who knows if I know all the possible values or if they change
them in the future breaking my code.
But your example with two 'full text' links is
This generally agrees with what I have found[1]. That is, if a second
indicator of '0' exists, then it is fairly likely the URL will lead you to
the full item. However, unfortunately an indicator of '1' is ambiguous, so
it's possible you will be leaving a lot behind if you rely on that solely.
It
I feel like at some point I heard there was a search API for the
Proquest content/database platform.
I can find no evidence of it on google, but that's not really unusual
for most of our vendor's apis.
Does anyone know if such an API exists, usable by Proquest customers,
and if so how to
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While it may not be the coolest, I’d be willing to bet Proquest
supports Z39.50.
Someone thinks Z39.50 isn't cool? It's got a very cool name anyway, especially
when pronounced zed39.50.
We'd also be interested in hearing how others are querying PQ, esp.
Aha, thinking to google search for proquest z3950 actually got me some
additional clues!
Sites that are currently using Z39.50 to search ProQuest are advised to
consider moving to the XML gateway.
in Google snippets for:
