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ProQuest scheduled maintenance, February 4-5
Published: 27 January 2006
Dear ProQuest customer,
The next ProQuest release is scheduled for February 4. This release will have exciting new enhancements including:
Â- COUNTER 2 Compliance - ProQuest has updated its usage reporting to be compliant with Release 2 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Journals and Databases.
- PsycBOOKS Now Available through ProQuest - The APA's full text database of over 800 books and 13,000 chapters (all indexed in PsycINFO) is now available on the ProQuest platform and adds to ProQuest's Psychology Suite, which includes PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, ProQuest Psychology Journals and Psychology Dissertations.
- Annual Refresh of the PsycINFO database - Refresh includes enhanced linking from Table of Contents records to corresponding chapter records in the database as well as the addition of new fields: Publication type, Book type, Methodology and Auxiliary Material.
- Publication Search Page - Users can now choose to browse issues or search the contents of a particular publication conveniently from the same page.
- Authentication Enhancements - Informational messages have been revised to help ensure that remote users are able to successfully access ProQuest.
- CBCA Thesaurus Update - Additions have been made to update the thesaurus and increase the degree of consistency with the traditional ProQuest thesaurus.
A four (4) hour maintenance window will occur on February 4 to install these exciting new enhancements. The window will be from Saturday, February 4, 22:00 EST (BST - 5:00hrs) to Sunday, Feb 5, 02:00 EST (BST - 5:00 hrs).