Description timeline

1892 to present

Update Type

Monthly

Update Notes

This archive will be updated monthly.

Accessibility

ProQuest accessibility page

ProQuest are committed to providing a search experience fully accessible to everyone. They make every effort to ensure that all pages comply with web accessibility guidelines. The ProQuest platform interface complies with the following web accessibility standards and laws.

• Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act
• The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Level A, Level AA and (in some cases) Level AAA of the WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0)

ProQuest designed the interface with compliance to broader web coding standards (for example, (XHTML and CSS2) to ensure compatibility with as wide a range of browsers and assistive technologies as possible.

At every stage of software development, ProQuest check ProQuest platform code for accessibility using a range of automated and manual checks. For example, they've tested colours used throughout the interface against World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards for luminosity contrast, colour difference, and brightness difference. During development and implementation, they also test the interface for screen reader accessibility using JAWS with Internet Explorer. Other tools used to test accessibility include:

• WAVE (web accessibility evaluation tool) provided by WebAim
• Fangs screen reader emulator
• Color Contrast Analyzer
• Manual keyboard checks
• Vischeck filters (colour-deficient vision simulator)

Authentication

ProQuest platform databases provide a variety of authentication methods.

• IP: Using the ProQuest Administrator Module (PAM), each library can assign IP addresses and/or IP ranges to their institutional account. Users recognised as coming from those IP addresses or ranges are automatically authenticated, and passed seamlessly to ProQuest when they click on or enter the appropriate link.
• User name/password: These combinations can be created in the PAM, and provide users direct access to their member institution's account.
• Account-based (My Research): ProQuest enables users to create their own personal accounts for storing documents, searches, alerts, etc, within the larger institutional account. The user name and password combinations for these My Research accounts can be employed by a user to log into their institutional account any time, from anywhere.
• Barcode: Each member institution can associate with its institutional account a set of barcodes. These barcodes can be used by individuals for ProQuest access. Through a URL unique to that account, users can enter their assigned barcode to authenticate to their parent institutional account.
• Proxy server: The proxy server URL prefix can be entered into the PAM, allowing users authenticating through a proxy server to be directed to the appropriate ProQuest institutional account.
• OpenATHENSSP (in particular, the Athens to Shibboleth gateway).
• Shibboleth: a federated identity-based authentication system. ProQuest supports Shibboleth version 2.1, which is backwards-compatible, and also supports versions 1.3.x. WAYF-less URLs are available at the cross-search, product, journal and article levels. Among other Shibboleth federations, ProQuest has built-in support for the U.S.-based InCommon federation.
• Referring URL: Enables control of authentication of your users by placing a link to ProQuest on a secured page on your website.

Federated searching

The ProQuest platform supports Z39.50 version 3, with the following operations:

• Init (begin a session, including authentication)
• Search (submit a query, get number of results, return an initial batch of results)
• Present (retrieve further results from a previous search).

Records are output in MARC21 format. The platform also supports a large number of search fields from the BIB-1 attribute set, covering commonly requested features in bibliographic searches. While the platform does not support the "Sort" request, it can provide results in different sort orders (requested with a database name suffix).

In addition to robust support for OpenURL standard outbound and inbound linking, the new ProQuest platform offers a variety of additional linking options.

Full text linking

The ProQuest platform databases support the OpenURL standard for linking out from individual citations to full-text versions of an article, or related resources, via a library's OpenURL link resolver. These databases also support the OpenURL standard for linking to content on the ProQuest platform. They work with major OpenURL resolver vendors to ensure they have all appropriate database holdings information to include in the resolver knowledge bases.

The ProQuest Administrative Module (PAM) includes pre-defined setup, and support for article-level linking, for the following OpenURL resolvers.

• 360 Link by Serials Solutions
• SFX by Ex Libris
• WebBridge by Innovative Interfaces Inc.
• Link Manager by OCLC (1Cate)
• Tour by TDNet
• LinkSource by EBSCO
• LInkSolver by Ovid

ProQuest OpenURL is compliant with both OpenURL 0.1 and 1.0. Additionally, ProQuest CrossLinks supports a flexible link definition that can be used with most any electronic resource that is accessible via a URL.

The ProQuest platform outbound linking system is flexible, and can accommodate any system that uses metadata in a URL (not just OpenURL). They tailor outbound linking to each vendor (based on vendor recommendations) and provide a different link syntax for each different target. They can update this outbound linking when needed.

Administrators can configure open outgoing links from ProQuest platform citation/abstract pages to provide users access to full-text from ProQuest platform records rather than through supported OpenURL link resolvers.

Users can find supporting information at the ProQuest Support Centre.

Marc records

Metadata available to support the Archive/Collections

Journal-level indexing of key fields

• METADATA MARC
• Publication title 245
• Coverage 362
• ISSN 22
• Subjects 653
• Durable URL 856 40u

Article-level indexing of key fields

• Document type
• Publication title
• ISSN
• Publisher
• Product name
• [Article] Title
• Editor
• Volume
• Issue
• Pages
• Publication year
• Journal subject
• Publication frequency
• Advertisement details
• PQ Doc ID
• Page URL
• [PQ] Database
• Copyright

Metadata format

• XML
• MARC

Metadata creation

The metadata is created via scanning + OCR + indexing.

Personalisation

Any individual library can brand its ProQuest platform products with two images/logos, two text links and a text message. Additionally, consortium libraries can "inherit" consortium branding. A consortium can provide two images/logos and two text links that are separate and distinct from those the individual library may choose. We also provide local configuration options that allow you to design the account hierarchy ("parent/child") of your choice.

Users have multiple levels of customisation available.

The ProQuest platform interface is a standard application that runs on standard web browsers. Any user can configure the workstation browser, and employ custom colours, fonts, etc.

Users access ProQuest databases with accounts. These accounts are created in consultation with, and with the assistance of the Technical Support Department. If desired, libraries can arrange for training that covers account creation and setup, and setting options to optimise databases for the library and user environment. Later, libraries can modify accounts locally at any time with the ProQuest Administrator Module (PAM).

Within each institutional account, customers can:

• Select the default search option - Basic Search page, Advanced Search page, Command Line Search page, Find Similar page, Publications page, Select Databases page
• Select date format (for example, day month year or month day year)
• Select databases view (brief or detailed)
• Select search by default either "All fields + text" or "All fields (no full text)"
• Select whether to include US and UK spellings and plurals and adjectives while searching
• Enable auto complete
• Select whether or not to display the "Limit to Full Text" checkbox, and if it is displayed, whether or not to have it checked by default
• Select whether or not the "Limit to Scholarly journals" checkbox is checked by default
• Select whether results should be sorted by Relevance (default), Date (Oldest first), or Date (Newest first)
• Customise defined Subject Areas (groupings of databases) by changing a Subject Areas display name ("The Arts", for example) or changing the databases that appear under a given Subject Area
• Create local, custom subject areas - you can choose a name, the databases to include, and select a representative image from an image bank
• Create custom login URLs that link to one or more databases available to users
• Create custom branding by including links, text, logos, and widgets in your ProQuest service

Libraries can also customise results, document display, linking, and the institution's default citation style (from twenty-eight available).

Custom login options also allow libraries to create custom login URLs with their own default settings (that can override settings for other local accounts, if desired). These custom URLs are routinely used by customers to search only specific ProQuest databases - for example, a library can provide a link to a business database from the library business page, and a link to nursing titles from the medical page. Custom login links also allow libraries to specify the interface language preference (for example, to allow a session to start in the Spanish interface).

Customers can locally customise institutional information, including administrative contact information and authentication options (IP addresses, proxy server, barcodes, Shibboleth, etc).

ProQuest employed Web 2.0 tools in ProQuest platform social networking features - public profiles that enable users to add tags and create searchable lists. To add tags and create lists, the user creates a My Research account. The first time a user tries to add tags or publish a list, the system will request creation of a public profile with which to associate the tag(s) or list. Going forward, the system associates all tags and lists with the public profile.

Additionally, every Document View page displays a Share feature that enables users (via addthis.com) to post links to ProQuest documents on Facebook, Twitter, and more.

Users can add tags to any ProQuest document. Tags can be used as a finding aid to help other users find relevant content, or as a personal organisation tool. Users can publish public tags (indexed by the search engine and findable by other users) or private tags (the user who applied the tag will see it, but no one else will). For public tags, users can click on them to see the Public Profile of the user(s) who have added the tag in question, and see what other tags the user has added.

Post search options

ProQuest platform databases provide direct export to RefWorks, EndNote, EasyBib, Citavi, Zotero, ProCite and RefMgr. The databases save citations in a file format compatible with these applications (RIS), and support a Z39.50 interface compatible with these applications.

From the search results page, users can e-mail, cite, and export references for selected items.

From the citation or full-text page, users can email, print, cite or download the document with a variety of different options available.

• Choice of 28 citation styles
• Choice of article format (brief citation, citation plus abstract and indexing, or full-text)
• Optional addition of a name, subject line, and notes
• A durable link to each item in the ProQuest platform
• A bibliography of selected items
• A search history

With a My Research account, users can store documents in folders, save searches, manage email alerts and RSS feeds, and more. Any user can create a personal My Research account. Within each account, users can manage tags added to documents and create lists of related documents. Users can also choose to create a public profile and make your tags and lists publicly available.

Users can also create search widgets in My Research, which they can add to personal websites, a library website, or a faculty/department website.

If libraries choose to enable the functionality, users can use the My Research username and password to log into ProQuest from anywhere, anytime.

Many bibliographic management features in My Research are powered by the RefWorks citation management software. Institutional subscribers to RefWorks enjoy additional integration between RefWorks and ProQuest platform databases. For example, after users enter a RefWorks ID in My Research, the two accounts automatically synchronise. Non-ProQuest citations in your RefWorks account become part of the My Research account, and any changes made to records in My Research are transferred to RefWorks as well.

Search options

The ProQuest platform interface provides multiple search modes users can employ, including the following:

The basic search form provides a very simple Google-like search box - the quickest means for users to start their search experience. For basic search, the same search index as "Key Fields + Text" on the advanced search form is employed; it searches across the major fields of any content item - for example, title, subject, author, additional index fields, abstracts (if present), and full-text (if present). This form also offers simple search limits; to full-text resources, to peer reviewed articles, and to scholarly resources.

The advanced search form was designed for experienced researchers, and to provide a more traditional set of library search functionality. Users can configure each row with a drop-down menu to search a specific search index, and each row can be joined with a specific Boolean operator.

Several different additional search tools are available on the advanced search form (availability depends on the databases being searched).

• Complex limiters: For some limiters, like language or source type, the interface offers a set of values from which to choose in a scrolling menu.
• Exposed search fields: For search fields that are vitally important to a given database - for example, company/organisation for ABI/INFORM - the interface provides a standalone search form with custom search fields for that database.
• Look up forms: For fields with well-defined values, look up forms are created allowing the user to select from known values. For example, if the user selects author from the pull-down menu, a "Look Up Authors" link appears. If the user selects the link, the interface loads a pop-up window with all author values available. Users can then search for the desired author(s), or browse them.

Publications searching provides a search for specific full-text publications available in your subscription, and then a search within those publications.

The Look Up Citation search form enables users to look up specific items quickly using the document citation (title, author, publication date, etc) without having to construct a new advanced search form query for every item.

The Find Similar search form allows users to enter a large block of text from another source. The form submits the entire block of text and runs it through the search engine natural language processing system. The algorithm pulls out important key words and phrases, and uses them as the basis for a search query. The algorithms weight those terms roughly according to their level of importance. Then those keywords drive a search against the default index, which includes title, abstract, citation, and subject terms.

The interface provides a dedicated command line search form for all databases. Designed to enable users to enter queries formulated in the query syntax the search engine uses. The form enables the user to create complicated queries with nested logic, and provides enough space to display the entire query on the screen at the same time. The interface also provides an advanced query building tool, which enables users to select a Boolean operator and search field; the form adds the proper syntax to the query.

The proprietary technology offers Smart Search, commonly known as a "recommender system". Smart Search leverages a combination of the controlled vocabularies used to index products and a variety of user analytics (for example, previous successful searches) to make search recommendations to users after the initial search is submitted. The recommendations commonly include refinements to the search, or even different terms entirely, to lead to content of interest.

Users can find further information at the ProQuest Support Centre.

Usage statistics

ProQuest are committed to providing on-demand, high quality usage reporting that enables our customers to effectively and comparably view ProQuest usage in their environment, and to easily justify its value.

Simple Reports Generation

Libraries can run reports

• In real time
• On a schedule of their choice (with automatic delivery by email)

We offer reports through a secure website, and in the following formats:

• HTML (displayed as a web page)
• CSV file (Excel compatible)
• Tilde (~) delimited file
• XML (for Counter reports)

Selectable Date Ranges

Libraries can choose the month/year date range for most reports. All usage data is available for the past 36 months, in accordance with the 2001 ICOLC guidelines.

Support for Standards

Report functionality is developed in compliance with leading library standards.

• ProQuest provide compliance with Release 4 of the COUNTER (Counting Online Usage of NeTworked Electronic Resources) Code of Practice, and we make all applicable COUNTER reports available to customers. We are also a voting member of COUNTER, and help to guide the standard's development
• We offer support for SUSHI (the Standardised Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative) version 1.6, an emerging NISO standard for a web services based method for automated retrieval and consolidation of COUNTER usage reports. It was created to facilitate aggregation of usage reports across content providers. ERM vendors are turning to SUSHI to enable libraries to easily gather, combine, and compare content usage across multiple providers
• ProQuest also provide compliance with all of the applicable guidelines of the 2001 ICOLC (International Coalition of Library Consortia) statistical measures of usage. Additionally, we use the data dictionary provided in NISO Z39.7-2002 to define our usage reporting elements and categories

Support for Consortia

Consortia can locally customise tiered reporting, with any desired number of tiers, and produce reports on any tier of multi-tiered accounts. For consortium accounts, it is possible to run the report at any tier in a multi-tiered account and to have the report reflect the breakouts of all the sub-tiers and sub-accounts below that tier. This allows a consortium to run one report and to receive usage totals

• For the entire consortium
• For individual library types (academic, public, K-12, etc.), and/or
• For individual libraries

Report Types

Database Activity Reports

• Summary: Searches and document usage broken out by location and database; format provided (citation/abstract, any full-text format)
• Detail: Summary report plus login name
• Annual: Also similar to the summary report, but broken out by month for the previous 12 months. Provides a comparison with previous years' usage. Date range fixed at one year; a year's range is determined by selecting the ending month

Document Usage Reports

• By Organisation: Total number of documents provided, by location and delivered format (citation, abstract, full-text, Text + Graphics, page image, page map, and article image)
• By Database Title: Total number of documents provided, by location, database/journal and the delivered format
• By Delivery Method: Total number of documents provided, by location and method of delivery (email, online display, or fax)
• Full Text Linking Out by Database/Journal: Total number of "Links to full-text" used by database and journal. If the user selects to display a report for all sites in the hierarchy, there will be a summary section showing usage for the master client, and a detailed section that breaks out usage by individual clients (location)

Search Statistics Reports

• Searches by Time: Provides the total number of searches for each hour of the day for the last 14 days, broken down by day, client, and login name
• Searches by Search Mode: Provides the total number searches by the search mode (Basic, Guided, Advanced, Natural Language, Publication or Topic) broken out by location and login name

COUNTER Reports (Release 4)

• Journal Report 1: Document usage by journal title (for up to a 12 month time period)
• Journal Report 1a: Same as Journal Report 1, but for archival databases
• Journal Report 2: Number of full-text journal turnaways. (In COUNTER 4 context, "turnaway" refers to both users denied access to a resource - inapplicable to our resources, which we're offering with unlimited simultaneous users - and to user attempts to retrieve a document to which their library doesn't subscribe)
• Journal Report 3: Number of successful full-text article requests by year and journal
• Journal Report 5: Reports, for each full-text title to which the library has access, hits broken out by the cover date
• Database Report 1: Searches, record views and result clicks by database
• Database Report 2: Turnaways by database. All formats are included
• Multimedia Report 1: Reports on non-text-based content - both in-browser plays and downloads
• Book Report 1: Per COUNTER specification, this report applies only to entire titles that may be requested by customers as a single file
• Book Report 2: Per COUNTER specification, this report applies only to those titles in which a section (a subdivision of a book or reference work; for example, a chapter or encyclopedia entry) is available
• Book Report 4: Number of full-text book turnaways
• Consortium Report 1: Number of successful full-text journal article or book chapter requests by month, by consortium member; contains the full-text usage data for every online journal and book taken by individual consortium members, by month
• Consortium Report 2: Number of total searches by month and database, by consortium member; contains the search and session counts for each database taken by individual consortium members
• Platform Report 1: Number of searches, result clicks and record views overall (and not database-by-database)

Login information

http://search.proquest.com/vogue

Product documentation

ProQuest Vogue: Find your library

ProQuest: The Vogue Archive

Subscription help

help.digitalresources@jisc.ac.uk

Technical support

Available 8:00 - 4:00 ET, Sunday - Thursday
8:00 to midnight ET, Friday and Saturday
365 days a year

Web support centre: support.proquest.com
Phone: 00 800 4997 4111 or 00 1 800 889 3358
Email: tsupport@proquest.com

Web contact form and live chat: support.proquest.com (click on "Contact Support" tab)
Fax: 00 800 4997 4210 or 00 1 734 997 4268

Training materials

ProQuest LibGuides: The Vogue Archive

ProQuest also maintain an online schedule of training webinars.

User support

Contact the ProQuest technical support department and find supporting information at the website at the ProQuest Support Centre.