Proquest links (was Re: Santa Claus is Comin' to Town...)

[Mullins, Bill]

That's good to know.  Too bad they don't let you search directly for
document numbers.

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> On 12/14/05, Mullins, Bill <Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> wrote:
> > On another OT:  It does no good at all to paste links from ProQuest
> > Historical Newspapers into your posts.  They are only good for the
> > computer and session you have originally found them in.  We
> can't open
> > them.  And they really clutter up an email.
>
> What I've been doing is extracting the Document ID # from the
> article I want to link to and then putting it at the end of this URL:
>
> http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=309&VName=HNP&did=
>
> So, for instance, this unwieldy and unusable link (given by Barry)...
>
> http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=3&did=76746243&SrchMode=1
> &sid=2&Fmt=6&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1134575
> 760&clientId
> =65882
>
> ...can be converted into this compact and stable URL:
>
> http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=309&VName=HNP&did=76746243
>
> This should work for anyone with access to Proquest, though
> if it's in a publication that's outside of your subscription
> range you'll only see a description of the article (headline,
> publication, date, page
> number) rather than the PDF of the article itself.
>
> For Proquest publications beyond the Historical Newspapers
> database, the "VName" needs to be changed, e.g. "PQD" for
> "Proquest Direct":
>
> http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=309&VName=PQD&did=59655819
>
>
> --Ben Zimmer
>