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. -- Bulk mail. Postage paid.
