Make Research a Snap with ProQuest® MARC Records Now you can link to your ProQuest® full text holdings -- straight from your library's online catalog -- with ProQuest MARC Records*. Links from your library catalog to ProQuest journals are provided by CONSER** catalog records in MARC format for easy loading. Here's How It Works ProQuest MARC Records delivers a set of bibliographic data describing the full-text titles available in your ProQuest subscription, at no charge. Durable Links™ (URLs) are embedded in the 856 field of each record. Once you add these to your OPAC, library users can click on a journal title that takes them directly to the ProQuest Search-for-Publication screen that lists the available issues. Great Benefits Convenience -- Now you can easily represent your ProQuest content to end users, with direct links from your OPAC. Direct Links -- Every catalog user can find the ProQuest publications you hold, complete with direct hyperlinks to the ProQuest list of issues. Monthly Updates -- Your systems librarian gets a turnkey solution with convenient monthly updates of any records that have been changed, added, or deleted. You can choose to receive just the updated records or replace the entire set of records. Flexible and Secure -- Your set of records is customized to accommodate your preferred means of authentication for the 856 field links. Promote Your Library's Holdings -- Users of your library's OPAC get a choice to continue searching online, via ProQuest, or to utilize your library's hard copy resources. ProQuest MARC Records include the 856 subfields as follows: Subfield $3 -- contains the holdings dates for the associated title Subfield $u -- contains a direct URL to ProQuest's "Search for Publication" view of the associated title Subfield $x -- indicates this 856 field is supplied by ProQuest Other fields of interest in ProQuest MARC Records: 001 -- Control number, in particular the ProQuest PMID number 003 -- Control number identifier "MiAaPQ" 035 -- System control numbers, in particular the OCLC number and the ProQuest PMID number 245 -- Subfield $h identifies the item as a computer file 773 -- Publisher information Customer Quotes: "Usage tripled in a year after adding links from our OPAC." Karen Calhoun, Cornell University "In February 2000, full text downloads from ProQuest at Lehigh were up by more than 50% over February 1999, and continued at that higher level. Librarians at Lehigh attribute that marked increase to the addition of links to ProQuest content in our OPAC in late 1999." Christine Roysdon, Lehigh University To Learn More For more information, call your sales representative at 800-521-0600, ext. 3183 or 3452. *ProQuest MARC Records were developed based on recommendations from the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Standing Committee on Automation (SCA) Task Group on Journals in Aggregator Databases, lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/aggfinal.html **CONSER is a standard for high-quality bibliographic records for serials; for more information, see http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/conser/. View Datasheet View Sample Records View FAQs To receive more information, Contact Us