Ah so. Thank you for checking it. All I want is to just pull our own
Theses & Dissertations.
Well, I ended up calling them and asked for the records to be
delivered to us. :-)


thanks,
ranti.

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Witt, Michael C. <[email protected]> wrote:
> I stand corrected.  ProQuest apparently has an SRU/W interface but requires 
> you to contact them and request access on a user-by-user basis.  I called 
> their tech support this morning, but they wouldn't give me its baseURL 
> without my signing a nondisclosure agreement (huh?).  You may be able to get 
> this information by looking at the configuration or plugin for it in your 
> federated search engine or by calling them and getting a different support 
> technician than the one I spoke to.  :-)
>
> -
> Michael Witt, Purdue University
> Interdisciplinary Research Librarian
> Assistant Professor of Library Science
> http://www.lib.purdue.edu/research/witt/
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Witt, Michael C.
>> Sent: Monday, November 09, 2009 8:39 AM
>> To: 'Code for Libraries'
>> Subject: RE: [CODE4LIB] ProQuest theses & dissertation xml gateway?
>>
>> To my knowledge, ProQuest does not have a web service that returns XML but 
>> you
>> can use Z39.50 or ftp to retrieve MARC records and then flip them to XML
>> locally.  If you use Digital Commons (bepress IR product), it provides an 
>> OAI-
>> PMH and SRU interface to the same records downstream as XML.  Hope this helps
>> you.
>>
>> -
>> Michael Witt, Purdue University
>> Interdisciplinary Research Librarian
>> Assistant Professor of Library Science
>> http://www.lib.purdue.edu/research/witt/
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
>> Ranti
>> > Junus
>> > Sent: Friday, November 06, 2009 4:30 PM
>> > To: [email protected]
>> > Subject: [CODE4LIB] ProQuest theses & dissertation xml gateway?
>> >
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > Has anybody did a query against ProQuest Theses & Dissertation XML
>> > gateway to get XML records back?
>> > Would you mind sharing the info on how to do that?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> >
>> > ranti.


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