[Eril-l] Linking to ProQuest Dissertations via Ovid?

[Steve Oberg]

Heather,

We use SFX for our link resolver and followed a custom hack done by a colleague at Kansas State University some time ago that detects whether the citation is for ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, and then drives a title search (taken from the dissertation title in the citation) into ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. This works the majority of the time to get users directly to the full text of the dissertation, but any characters in the title that are out of the ordinary cause the search to fail. There has been a lot of discussion among those who use WorldCat Discovery as their discovery layer about alternatives to getting linking to work. The ideal would of course be that ProQuest alters its whole approach to this expensive product to natively enable OpenURL linking, and last I heard, they may be working on that, but others will probably know more, and I may be out of date by now about better solutions.

Steve

Steve Oberg
Assistant Professor and Group Leader for Resource Description and Digital Initiatives
Buswell Library, Wheaton College (IL)
+1 (630) 752-5852

President, NASIG<http://www.nasig.org/>
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From: Eril-l <eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org> on behalf of "Cannon, Heather" <HCannon at adler.edu>
Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 at 11:40 AM
To: eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>
Subject: [Eril-l] Linking to ProQuest Dissertations via Ovid?

Hi all,

I’m hoping someone on this list might have an idea about how to solve a problem we encounter frequently at our library.

We have a subscription to PsycINFO on the OVID platform.  We use both Links at Ovid and SerialsSolution’s 360 Link to as link resolvers on the Ovid platform.

When our users find a citation to a dissertation in PsycINFO, it’s actually a citation for Dissertation Abstracts International: Section A or Section B.  Therefore, those links don’t resolve to full-text even though we all know the users want to find the actual dissertation in full-text, not the abstract.  And we DO have the full text of dissertations, through ProQuest, for the ones listed in Section B.

Does anyone know of a way to direct those links to ProQuest’s Dissertations database instead?

The best idea I’ve come up with on my own is creating another link to ProQuest Dissertations in the 360 Link pop-up window that tells users to click on it if their citation says “Dissertation abstracts international”

If there’s a better way to do it directly using Links at Ovid, though, that would be great.

Thanks,
Heather.
Heather Cannon, M.L.I.S.
Systems & Resources Librarian
Adler University
17 N. Dearborn St.
Chicago, IL 60602
hcannon at adler.edu

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