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Linking to ProQuest Historical/Archive databases

The ProQuest Historical Databases Technology platform is a OpenURL target compliant with the San Antonio profile level 1 (SAP1). We support the following OpenURL versions and syntaxes: 1.0 trial version, and 1.0 balloted version.

Note: To improve readability the OpenURL elements on this page have been broken out into separate lines. When creating actual OpenURL'S the data should not contain any linefeeds or carriage returns.

Version 0.1

Is not supported for Historical Databases

Version 1.0

Following are sample article-level and title-level links with example meta data highlighted:

Article-level Link

http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?
ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004
&res_id=xri:pqd::hnp
&rft_val_fmt=ori/fmt:kev:mtx:journal
&genre=article
&jtitle=New York Daily Times
&issn=
&atitle=General News in Buffalo
&date=1851-10-30
&volume=
&issue=

Title-level Link

http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl
?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004
&res_id=xri:pqd::hnp
&rft_val_fmt=ori:/fmt:kev:mtx:journal
&jtitle=New York Times
&issn=
&svc_id=xri:pqil:context=title

The OpenURL Version 1.0 metadata elements supported by ProQuest are listed in the table below.

Element

Description

Data Format

Required

issn

ISSN without dashes

numeric

Required(1)

jtitle

Journal title

Alphanumeric

Required(1)

atitle

Article title

Alphanumeric

Optional

date

Date of publication

Numeric

Optional(3)

volume

Volume that article is located in

Alphanumeric

Optional(2)

issue

Issue that article is located in

Alphanumeric

Optional (2)

Notes:
1. ISSN or jtitle must be provided.
2. For best results when linking to newspapers do not populate volume / issue information

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