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A-Z List
Generic term for an alphabetical listing of all
journals available electronically and links to access them. Provides journal
level access, not article level access. EBSCO calls their A-Z product EBSCO
A to Z Service.
Article Level Linking
Linking directly to the article the
user is looking for. An example of an article level link in ProQuest is http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=000000684636741&RQT=309
Article level linking solutions are generally more expensive then journal
level linking.
Cache
Temporary files on your system. Every time you visit a web page and/or graphics,
it stores that page on your hard drive. Sometimes that information gets corrupted,
or gets out of date so your customer may have to clear their cache. Internet
Explorer = Tools, Internet Options, (under temporary files) delete files. Netscape
= Edit, Preference, +Advanced, Cache, Clear Memory Cache, Clear Disk Cache
Cookie
Text files that are saved to your hard drive that store login information.
(Different from Cache, because cache saves web pages and graphics, Cookies
saves text) Data created by a Web server that is stored on a user's computer.
It provides a way for the Web site to keep track of a user's patterns and
preferences and, with the cooperation of the Web browser, to store them on
the users' own hard disk. The cookies contain a range of URLs (addresses)
for which they are valid. When the browser encounters those URLs again, it
sends those specific cookies to the Web server. For example, if a user's
ID were stored as a cookie, it would save that person from typing in the
same information all over again when accessing that service for the second
and subsequent time. By retaining user history, cookies allow the Web site
to tailor the pages and create a custom experience for that individual. You
can have your browser disable cookies or warn you before accepting a cookie.
Look for the cookie options in your browser in the Options or Preferences
menu.
Collection
ProQuest Collections are databases containing articles from newspapers,
periodicals, and academic journals, along with information about those
articles, such as author, title, and related subject terms. ProQuest Collections
are
organized so that periodicals containing similar types of information are
grouped together. The content of each collection varies, depending on its
focus.
CrossLinks
Formerly known as Library Holdings. ProQuest interface capability that
lets library tie ProQuest databases to other full-text resources such as
their OPAC; ejournals; aggregator databases such as OCLC, JSTOR or Project
MUSE; SFX and more. ProQuest CrossLinks is a new enhancement to the library
holdings features available within your ProQuest® account. By using ProQuest
CrossLinks, library patrons have seamless integration from searching in ProQuest
to other sources of full text that your library may have access to. ProQuest
CrossLinks supports the use of a static URL to access resources or it can
dynamically create URL’s based on article level information.
ProQuest technology that allows linking to almost any system, even if it is not Open URL compliant. ProQuest CrossLinks supports the use of a static URL to access resources or it can dynamically create URL’s based on journal or article level information.
ProQuest CrossLinks is a powerful enhancement to the library holdings features available within your ProQuest® account. By using ProQuest CrossLinks, you can quickly assign predefined or custom links to your titles, giving users immediate access to titles available from other sources of full text resources.
Customized IDs
Allows customer to put a link on their web page that would connect
to specific databases. This does not authenticate the customer differently;
it just appends a suffix (to equal the database(s)) at the end of the regular
ProQuest URL.
Customized Login
Lets
customer put a link on their web
page that would connect to specific databases. This does not authenticate
the customer differently; it just appends a suffix (to equal the database(s))
at the end of the regular ProQuest URL.
Dead Link
Common term for when a link from an information source results in a “page
not found message”
e-Journal Provider
Publishers that provide electronic versions
of their content to subscribers. Examples are SWETS Blackwell and CrossRef
EZproxy
Provides remote access authentication for libraries to extend web-based
licensed databases to their remote users.
Early English Books Online
From the first book published in English through the titles printed
during the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection—a
subset of the Early English Books Online database—contains nearly all
26,500 titles listed in A.W. Pollard and G.R. Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue
and its revised edition.
Federated Searching
See Meta-Search
Inbound Linking
ProQuest supports OpenURL linking from other resources into ProQuest
at the article level and at the journal level. Article level links will display
the requested article and allow the user to email, print, or export the article.
Publication level links will display the list of issues available and allow
the user to browse the content or search within the publication. In all cases,
the links lead to the fully featured ProQuest interface allowing the user
to continue their research in ProQuest.
Intellidocs
Adds a hyperlink within a document that allows a user to access
more information about the highlighted word. Used with WorldBook and/or Hoovers.
Journal Level Linking
Linking only to the journal level.
The user must then select the issue he is interested in and browse the table
of contents to find the desired article. An example of a journal level link
into ProQuest is http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=318&pmid=000028294
Journal level linking solutions are generally cheaper then article level
linking.
Knowledge Base
Used by a Link Resolver to determine
what resources to display.
Library Branding
Allows a customer to return to the site’s homepage from ProQuest.
In PRD we enter the name that the site wants to appear on their ProQuest
page, and we have to enter the URL where the user will return to.
Library Holdings
Your library holdings include the physical and electronic resources that
you make available to users.
Link Resolver
Software that is used to determine the users
appropriate copy.
Local Authentication
Customer would set this up through LAD, they would add student
ids, bar codes etc. Customer will get a special URL from LAD. User goes
to this
URLl and is required to enter a barcode and/or password depending on how
it was set up in LAD
Marc Records
Full bibliographic CONSER records which include links to publications.
Customers will load these records into their local OPAC so that patrons can
more easily find the library’s holdings in ProQuest. A Marc Record
includes a Sitebuilder link to go back into ProQuest. Customer requests Marc
records through LAD. Not to be confused with EEBO Marc Records which are
handled by the Serials department.
Market Research.com n/a Other Application MarketResearch.com Academic is a
collection of over 600 market research reports published by MarketResearch.com.
The reports cover a wide variety of subjects including: Food & Beverage,
Consumer & Personal Products, Healthcare & Medical Devices, Pharmaceuticals,
and many more. In PRD, we select the database subset Market Research.com and
we have to set up the account with Library Holdings, and assign LH#9515 to
it.
Meta-Search
This is a system that will search across multiple
vender products from a single search screen. A meta-search engine generally
uses Z39.50 or screen scraping to get the data from the individual vender
sites.
Metadata
The data contained in an Open URL or other
types on linking URLs.
OPAC
Online Public Access Catalog – Library automation
system used by library patrons & students to locate books and journals.
Electronic version of the old card catalog.
Open URL
OpenURL is a convenient way to link into ProQuest, letting users access
articles, or publications from your other electronic resources. For example,
you can create links from services such as SFX or a bibliographic research
database into ProQuest. OpenURL is a developing standard for links, proposed
and developed by NISO, the National Information Standards Organization. The
OpenURL standard specifies links to include information in a metadata package
which lets the link target (for example, an electronic resource) search and
retrieve the content requested. Please see other definitions here on Inbound
Linking and Outbound Linking
Open URL Source
Information Service that creates an OpenURL.
See Outbound Linking. An example of a database that is a source only is INSPEC,
it is only an index and since there is no full text there is no reason to
link to it.
Open URL Target
Linking Information Service that accepts
inbound links to articles. See Inbound Linking. Examples of ProQuest products
that are
targets only are HNP and APS.
Outbound Linking
The ProQuest CrossLinks feature supports creating OpenURLs that point to your
other electronic resources. This allows your patrons to link from their ProQuest
search session directly to the item in another resource. For example, you
can setup links to your library catalog (OPAC), to a link resolver (e.g.
SFX), to an ejournal provider, etc.
ProQuest Archiver
ProQuest Archiver manages and hosts all or part of newspaper's/magazine's
archive so that customers can easily find the information they need. Customers
with billing questions should call 888-900-7415
Referring URL
Customer would want a referring URL if they have their own authentication
(bar code, student id). User would log into the site’s homepage satisfying
their authentication scheme (using customer id, bar code etc) then be able
to click the link and go right into ProQuest. In PRD, we enter the URL where
our ProQuest link will reside on the customer’s homepage. Note: A good
example is used with Epix Tech Server
Remote Access
When remote access to ProQuest is enabled, remote user can access your
ProQuest account.
SWETS Blackwell
SWETS Blackwell is another company whom ProQuest has a deal with
that allows our customers to link to their full text (Swets Navigator is
the name of their product) via a crosslinks feature. In PRD, we set up a
special library holdings. SWETS will also be selling ProQuest to the corporate
market. Right now Tech Support manually sets up the linking. This will be
a feature in LAD with PQ 6.0 release.
Screen Scraping
A common method used by meta-search systems
to extract data from database providers
Sitebuilder
Lets customer create links to searches, results list and articles.
They can either build a complete page, or just create links. Any user can
do this, but links will only last for 30 days. Administrator accounts can
have their links stay longer.
Text Encoding
Now called Text Creation Partnership. The University of Michigan,
Oxford University, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and
ProQuest are engaged in an exceptional partnership
to provide robust access to a major cultural archive. ProQuest has created
digital images for the 125,000 titles in the English Short Title Catalog,
which includes English language texts from 1475-1700
listed in Wing, Pollard and Redgrave, and the Thomason Tracts. Working together,
the University of Michigan and the University of Oxford have proposed an
international initiative supported by the research library community to create
structured SGML text files for a significant portion of this collection,
and are serving as production sites for the project. 25,000 volumes have
been targeted for conversion over a five-year period. The encoded texts will
link to the ProQuest images. Completed texts will
be loaded and delivered to the partners through ProQuest, Michigan, or
Oxford. We do not invoice the customer for this. If a customer is looking
for information on this partnership, give them this
URL http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/eebo/.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator . A string of characters that references a specific
Web object (page, file, image, form, etc.). http://www.proquest.com/ is
a URL.
Usage reports
For a complete explanation of each, see How
to Read Usage Reports.
XanEdu
The XanEdu Research Engines are personal, online research and
learning tools for students and scholars everywhere,
with discipline-specific
content and automatic search results designed by expert editors and university
faculty. The Research Engines are perfect for class assignments, research,
and presentations - with content available from thousands of scholarly
publications and "Best of the Web" links.
Z39.50
A language or protocol used by library automation
systems to talk to one another and to database venders. It can be used for
meta-searching, ILL requests and transferring holdings information.
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