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We licensed this set of archives in perpetuity to provide higher and further education and research councils with access to a rich collection of primary sources from the 1600s to the present day. Together, these resources provide a diverse set of content that supports researchers across the humanities and social sciences with early book collections, government papers, historical periodicals and magazines: 18th, 19th, 20th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, British Periodicals Collections I and II, Periodicals Archive Online: Jisc Collections Selections, Early European Books Parts 1-4, The Vogue Archive.
This collection can save shelving space and provide permanent access to a vast information repository for libraries. For students and scholars, this collection connects them with hard-to-find sources that can be used to survey comprehensively the history of scholarship in a particular field.
Although Jisc purchased the content in perpetuity, institutions will need to pay an access fee to access the content via the publishers' server.
Eligibility: HE, FE, Affiliates (on a case by case basis, please contact the publisher/request a quote)
The collection includes:
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers empowers researchers to explore the British perspective on historical and contemporary events through a vast and authoritative archive of official government documents spanning three centuries.
ProQuest also makes available on the same platform the full-text from the Hansard, the Official Report of the debates in Parliament, from both the House of Commons and House of Lords, from 1803 to 2005. These are publicly available XML files created by the Hansard Digitisation Project (led by the Directorate of Information Services of the House of Commons and the Library of the House of Lords) are the source for this material, which is reproduced under Parliamentary copyright and is also searchable on its original free interface at http://hansard.millbanksystems.com.
Institutions that pay the additional access fee will be able to access the 18th, 19th, 20th and the publicly available 21st/Hansard archive on the same platform.
British Periodicals Collection I consists of more than 162 journals that comprise the UMI microfilm collection Early British Periodicals, the equivalent of 5,238 printed volumes containing approximately 3.1 million pages. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences.
British Periodicals Collection II consists of more than 310 journals from the UMI microfilm collections English Literary Periodicals and British Periodicals in the Creative Arts together with additional titles, amounting to almost 3 million pages. Topics covered include literature, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture.
Periodicals Archive Online connects researchers with a rich digital archive of leading international journals in the humanities and social sciences, spanning more than two centuries of content. Periodicals Archive Online consists of 130 titles, hand-picked from the Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) collections to complement other electronic archives already accessible to Jisc members.
The ProQuest Archives Collection: Jisc Collections Selections includes 50 additional titles. Journals are provided from volume 1, issue 1, with titles selected. Journals are only considered for inclusion by expert editorial teams if the backfile is predominantly unavailable through other online sources. For libraries, Periodicals Archive Online can save up significant shelving space and provide permanent access to a vast information repository. For students and scholars, this resource can be used to survey comprehensively the history of scholarship in a particular field. Users can pinpoint articles via precision search, or browse individual issues as if consulting the originals; each issue is digitised from cover to cover.
Early European Books provides the most comprehensive digitised collection of rare books and incunabula available anywhere online. It offers users a research experience as close as possible to actually being with the books. Researchers can see every page and feature rendered on screen. Indexing and specialist search fields ensure relevant results are returned each time. ProQuest is building Early European Books in partnership with major European libraries including the National Library of France, the National Library of Florence, the National Library of the Netherlands, the Wellcome Library, London, and the Royal Library, Denmark, with more libraries set to join the programme. Early European Books can be cross-searched with EEBO for a comprehensive survey of the printed works of early modern Britain and Europe.
The Vogue Archive includes the entire run of the US edition of Vogue magazine from 1892 to the present day, reproduced in high-resolution colour page images. Every page, advertisement, cover, and fold-out is present, fully searchable, and viewable, and the archive is updated monthly with the latest issue (no embargo). With more than 400,000 pages, The Vogue Archive represents a significant and highly visual record of the work of the greatest designers, photographers, stylists and illustrators of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and a time capsule of American and international popular culture. The Vogue Archive is an essential primary source for the study of fashion, gender and modern social history: past, present and future.
The Vogue Archive contains the full run of past issues (400,000 pages) and is updated monthly with the current issue.
19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers includes digital versions of papers, returns, reports and evidence. It does not include debates (Hansard), the House of Commons Journal, or daily business papers, such as Order papers and Votes and Proceedings. These are outside the scope of a precise application of the term parliamentary papers.
Sessional papers, sometimes called blue books, were required for the work of the House of Commons, providing information on matters of policy and administration, and ordered by the House to be printed. They fall into the following three categories:
The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers is a collection of Commons papers, with some from the Lords also included. This is because the Lords often presented papers to the Commons, such as reports prepared by Lords Select Committees.
Content for British Periodicals has been selected from the UMI microfilm collections: Early British Periodicals, British Periodicals in the Creative Arts and English Literary Periodicals. In addition, seven extra journals have been added so that British Periodicals includes the full text of all the journals included in the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.
The basic criteria for inclusion is that journals are scholarly in nature or of significant interest to scholars, that they have a significant back-file component prior to 1995, that they fit within one or more of the database's 37 subject areas in the arts, humanities and social sciences, and that they complement other archives that Jisc members have access to.
Please see the http://www.eeb.chadwyck.com site for a detailed description of each collection. Each has been curated by experts at our partner libraries, selecting the most important books in their collection for this project.
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The site complies with WAI Priority 1 accessibility standards and some features also contribute towards compliance with Priority 2 and 3 guidelines. For full details, see http://parlipapers.chadwyck.co.uk/infoCentre/access.jsp
Compliant with W3C Priority 1, some compliance with Priorities 2 and 3.
This resource complies with level 1 of the WAI guidelines (and where possible level 2 and 3) and section Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act 1973.
At present they are making every effort to comply with Priority 1 of World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and some features also contribute towards compliance with Priority 2 and Priority 3 guidelines.
The publisher is also striving to ensure that this site complies with the US Federal Government Section 508 guidelines for Web-based information.
Colours used throughout the interface have been tested against the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) standards for luminosity contrast, colour difference and brightness difference.
Where appropriate, they have tried to ensure that the access keys assigned to this site are consistent with authoritative sources on the Web (e.g. "UK Government access keys standard" in Illustrated Handbook for Web Management Teams) and other ProQuest LLC products.
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.
ProQuest designed the interface with compliance to broader web coding standards (for example, (X)HTML 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.
Authentication is via the UK Access Management Federation and Athens.
The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers will become Z39.50 compliant in a future release. Information on how customers can configure their Z39.50 software to search House of Commons Parliamentary Papers CPP will become available at the Administrator Resources page.
The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers is not currently a target for inbound OpenURL linking.
British Periodicals supports both z39.50 and XML Gateway mechanisms.
This resource is Z39.50 compliant and also supports federated searching via an XML gateway. Federated searching is possible via both z39.50 and SML gateway protocols.
The ProQuest platform supports Z39.50 version 3, with the following operations:
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.
These resources are compliant with the OpenURL standard.
British Periodicals is a source for inbound OpenURL referrals and all contents and functional pages feature durable URLs, using OpenURL syntax.
This resource is compliant with the OpenURL standard.
EEB supports inbound OpenURL linking, within both the web application and the MARC records.
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.
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 for the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers database can be downloaded from the publisher's Administrator Resources, free of charge.
Bibliographic records are available free of charge, in MARC21 (Machine-Readable Cataloguing) format, for the journals included in British Periodicals. These can be loaded into catalogue systems and contain durable links (in the 856) field to journal record pages in the database.
MARC records are available for all titles in the collection.
The free MARC records, which are pulled from the institutions where the material is scanned, with only minor updates, are of varying quality and in a variety of languages. Given the age of the collections in those libraries, the level of quality and standards for cataloguing at the time can vary greatly - sometimes not more than a shelf list with single title and imprint statement.
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 40.
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
Metadata creation - The metadata is created via scanning + OCR + indexing.
The British Periodicals metadata specification is essentially an extended version of the Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) metadata specification and includes information from article source (Author, Article Title, Journal Title, Journal Editor, Volume, Issue, Date, Pagination, Place of Publication), the Frequency of Publication of the periodicals included, the Content Type of particular articles (allowing users to search for Advertisements, Articles, Poems, Reviews, etc), and the presence within each article of graphic elements (Cartoons, Maps, Printed Music etc). The metadata also includes Journal Subject indexing (using Library of Congress Subject Headings).
Users can create a password protected work area called My Archive. Here they can save searches and records by selecting records and adding them to their Marked List or add them from the Search History.
Librarians can customise the HCPP interface at an institutional level by adding library branding.
Institutions can personalise British Periodicals by adding library branding.
Institutions can add their own branding, and users can save their research to a password protected area.
Users can create a persistent "MyResearch" account to store saved searches and selected items.
Any individual library can brand its ProQuest platform products with two images/logos, two text links, and a text message.
From a list of results, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers users can select records and add them to their Marked List or add the search to their own password protected work area - My Archive. From the Marked List or My Archive users can Print, Email and Download records in a variety of formats, i.e. Plain Text, ProCite, EndNote, Reference Manager and RefWorks.
HCPP Search History functionality facilitates re-execution and combination of search sets (AND, OR and NOT). Document images can be downloaded in their entirety or in part in pdf format, and document pages can be downloaded in TIFF format.
Search History and Market Lists allow users to review and combine searches during a session and mark up results of interest for exporting, saving and printing.
A My Archive feature allows users to save searches between visits in a personal, password-protected area.
Citations can be downloaded and emailed in various formats. Citations can also be exported directly to RefWorks, ProCite, EndNote and Reference Manager.
Users can sort search results alphabetically, chronologically, reverse chronologically, and by relevance. Results can be limited by journal, language, date of publication, and journal subject. Users can also save results to a personal folder.
Users can export citations directly to RefWorks, ProCite, EndNote or Reference Manager or download in plain text or in a format (RIS) compatible with ProCite, EndNote, Reference Manager and RefWorks. Users can also email records from EEB.
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 e-mail, print, cite or download the document with a variety of different options available.
With a My Research account, users can store documents in folders, save searches, manage e-mail 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 our 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.
Keyword(s), Paper title Keyword(s), Subject Keyword(s), Paper Chair/author, Session, Paper Number, Year range. The Search screen also allows users to limit searches by paper type (House of Commons Papers, Command Papers, Bills, Reports, Accounts) or limit searches to papers containing maps/plans, tables/graphs, or photographs/illustrations. Results can be sorted chronologically by session date, alphabetically by title, or by relevance.
All fields support use of a truncation operator (*), Boolean AND/OR/NOT, and proximity operators Near and Followed By (For example, treaty NEAR.5 Netherlands; health FBY.4 housing).
HCPP incorporates Peter Cockton's Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900. The subject terms can be included in searches or the entire index can be browsed separately from the Browse 19th Century Subject Catalogue tab.
Supporting information can be found in the Information Resources area, including a Guide to Parliamentary Papers, a List of Principal Ministers in Cabinets, an online demo of the database and its features, and a Glossary of terms.
British Periodicals has a range of search options. The Home Page has a one-box quick search option which allows users to search keywords from Article Title and Text, Article Author, Article Title or Journal Title. The quick search feature is available on every page of the site, making it possible to search the complete collection quickly and efficiently.
A more detailed "Article Search" screen offers further options, including:
The Search Results display allows users to filter results according to the following criteria:
It's possible to browse for journals in British Periodicals by title or to search for Journal Records by Title, Editor, Subject, Frequency of Publication, Date of Publication, and / or Place of Publication, using the Search Journal Records screen.
Quick and advanced searching is available. Quick searching is by journal title, article title, article text, author, and ISSN.
Advanced searches allow users to search by querying citations, article full text, or both. Advanced searches can be limited by content type, keyword, article title keyword, author, journal title, language, journal subject, year, and ISSN.
A single-box Quick Search is available on most pages of the site and there is a detailed Search Page providing interrogation of the following fields:
"Select from" lists are available for key fields and EEB supports Boolean and proximity operators, as well as wildcards.
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).
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.
HCPP usage statistics are modelled as closely as possible on the requirements for web statistics produced by the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC). Though some changes were necessary because of the nature of the database, the publishers of HCPP have kept to the spirit of the ICOLC requirements.
Customisable usage statistics reports are available to librarians and systems administrators in a password-protected Administrator Resources area within the Information Resources section on the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers website.
British Periodicals offers both product-specific reports and COUNTER-compliant usage reports.
Usage statistics are available for Periodicals Archive Online: Jisc Collections Selection, and are COUNTER compliant.
COUNTER 4 statistics are available.
COUNTER 4 statistics are available.
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British Periodicals Collections I and II
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Early European Books
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Vogue Archive
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British Periodicals Collections I and II
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Periodicals Archive Online: Jisc Collections Selection
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Early European Books
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Vogue Archive
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Vogue Archive
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