Tuesday, July 11, 2006
ProQuest Digital Dissertation Migration Update - July 15
This is an update about the ProQuest Digital Dissertations™ (PQDD) migration to the ProQuest platform. You are receiving this message because you signed up to receive migration alerts via our ProQuest Digital Dissertations Migration Bulletin or because you are a member of a ProQuest platform bulletin.
We're pleased to announce that the next major phase of the PQDD migration to the ProQuest platform will take place on July 15, 2006. In the ProQuest platform, the PQDD database has been re-named to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database (PQDT). Our PQDD/PQDT migration information center describes all the details, including:
Support for Subject Subsets: Not only will customers with one of the larger subject subsets be able to move to PQDT, but other customers who want to subscribe to smaller, full text subsets -- like Medicine or Agriculture -- will be able to do so as well.
Support for Open Access Dissertations and Theses: Beginning in the fall of 2006, graduate authors who publish with ProQuest/UMI will have the option of publishing their work on an open access basis under our Expanded Publishing with Open Access (EPOA) service. As they become available, those EPOA titles will be added to the database for free full-text download for all PQDT users.
Search Enhancements: Enhancements include the ability to limit by material type (dissertations or theses) and improvements to searching by university name.
Using the Local Administrator utility (LAD), libraries will be able to customize the "Order a Copy" link to provide any special instructions required to match their institutions' policies.
Dear ProQuest Customer,
The next ProQuest platform enhancement release is scheduled for July 15th. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place to install the exciting new enhancements. The window will begin Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 22:00 EDT (04:00 GMT) and end Sunday, July 16th at 10:00 EDT (16:00 GMT). See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.
Enhancements include:
Implementation of Spell Check - This exciting new feature is available for products on the ProQuest platform. Spell Check will ask the user a "Did you mean..." question on the search results page to prompt for spelling corrections inside the user's search query.
ProQuest Historical Annual Reports™ - Historical Annual Reports delivers full runs of annual reports dating from 1844 to the present. You get easy online access to an exhaustive collection of more than 42,000 reports, issued by 800 leading U.S. companies. Each annual report is digitized from cover to cover. The high-resolution images are made from the best available copies-either the original reports or our microform masters, expertly digitized. Every word of the text is fully searchable, an invaluable aid in tracing companies, products, developments, financial data, statistics, and corporate self-images across time.
Springer Premium Content - ProQuest is pleased to announce an agreement with Springer that will bring un-embargoed full-text Springer business, general reference, and medicine journals from Springer to online databases including ABI/INFORM® Global, ProQuest Medical Library™, ProQuest Health and Medical Complete™ and ProQuest Research Library™. This agreement allows ProQuest to distribute the journal content electronically to libraries to meet patrons need for immediate access to the most up-to-date information available.
Support for Subject Subsets within ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Not only will customers with one of the larger subject subsets be able to move to PQDT in the ProQuest Platform, but other customers who want to subscribe to smaller, full-text subsets - like Medicine or Agriculture - will be able to do so also.
Athens authentication - ProQuest is updating its Athens authentication to version 5.7 which allows for support of the Athens Shibboleth gateway.
E-Book abstracting and indexing available in ProQuest Medical databases - ProQuest has created abstracting and indexing for the MyiLibrary Medical books which will link from the A&I directly to the full-text found in the corresponding medical book. This data can be dropped into a customers account upon request.
The following products will be unavailable during this window:
ProQuest®, including ProQuest interface products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series
Third-party databases such as CINAHL® Database with Full Text
ProQuest Archiver™
eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGrams™
"Digital Vault" products, including the Gerritsen Collection, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, Policy File, DNSA, and Digital Sanborn Maps
Maintenance window schedule, by time zone:
EST: Saturday, July 15th, from 22:00 p.m. to Sunday, July 16th at 10:00 a.m
We're pleased to announce that the next major phase of the PQDD migration to the ProQuest platform will take place on July 15, 2006. In the ProQuest platform, the PQDD database has been re-named to the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Database (PQDT). Our PQDD/PQDT migration information center describes all the details, including:
Support for Subject Subsets: Not only will customers with one of the larger subject subsets be able to move to PQDT, but other customers who want to subscribe to smaller, full text subsets -- like Medicine or Agriculture -- will be able to do so as well.
Support for Open Access Dissertations and Theses: Beginning in the fall of 2006, graduate authors who publish with ProQuest/UMI will have the option of publishing their work on an open access basis under our Expanded Publishing with Open Access (EPOA) service. As they become available, those EPOA titles will be added to the database for free full-text download for all PQDT users.
Search Enhancements: Enhancements include the ability to limit by material type (dissertations or theses) and improvements to searching by university name.
Using the Local Administrator utility (LAD), libraries will be able to customize the "Order a Copy" link to provide any special instructions required to match their institutions' policies.
Dear ProQuest Customer,
The next ProQuest platform enhancement release is scheduled for July 15th. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will take place to install the exciting new enhancements. The window will begin Saturday, July 15, 2006 at 22:00 EDT (04:00 GMT) and end Sunday, July 16th at 10:00 EDT (16:00 GMT). See below for a more complete list of times and time zones.
Enhancements include:
Implementation of Spell Check - This exciting new feature is available for products on the ProQuest platform. Spell Check will ask the user a "Did you mean..." question on the search results page to prompt for spelling corrections inside the user's search query.
ProQuest Historical Annual Reports™ - Historical Annual Reports delivers full runs of annual reports dating from 1844 to the present. You get easy online access to an exhaustive collection of more than 42,000 reports, issued by 800 leading U.S. companies. Each annual report is digitized from cover to cover. The high-resolution images are made from the best available copies-either the original reports or our microform masters, expertly digitized. Every word of the text is fully searchable, an invaluable aid in tracing companies, products, developments, financial data, statistics, and corporate self-images across time.
Springer Premium Content - ProQuest is pleased to announce an agreement with Springer that will bring un-embargoed full-text Springer business, general reference, and medicine journals from Springer to online databases including ABI/INFORM® Global, ProQuest Medical Library™, ProQuest Health and Medical Complete™ and ProQuest Research Library™. This agreement allows ProQuest to distribute the journal content electronically to libraries to meet patrons need for immediate access to the most up-to-date information available.
Support for Subject Subsets within ProQuest Dissertations and Theses - Not only will customers with one of the larger subject subsets be able to move to PQDT in the ProQuest Platform, but other customers who want to subscribe to smaller, full-text subsets - like Medicine or Agriculture - will be able to do so also.
Athens authentication - ProQuest is updating its Athens authentication to version 5.7 which allows for support of the Athens Shibboleth gateway.
E-Book abstracting and indexing available in ProQuest Medical databases - ProQuest has created abstracting and indexing for the MyiLibrary Medical books which will link from the A&I directly to the full-text found in the corresponding medical book. This data can be dropped into a customers account upon request.
The following products will be unavailable during this window:
ProQuest®, including ProQuest interface products, ProQuest Historical Newspapers (traditional and graphical K12 interface), American Periodicals Series
Third-party databases such as CINAHL® Database with Full Text
ProQuest Archiver™
eLibrary®, SIRS®, and CultureGrams™
"Digital Vault" products, including the Gerritsen Collection, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, Policy File, DNSA, and Digital Sanborn Maps
Maintenance window schedule, by time zone:
EST: Saturday, July 15th, from 22:00 p.m. to Sunday, July 16th at 10:00 a.m
