A recent update from Ex Libris to the SFX system has broken links into ProQuest databases from OneSearch records. If you have found item in OneSearch and the “full text available” link is programmed to take to you to the text in a ProQuest database, you’ll get a weird error page from SFX that reads “Target URL could not be created” and looks like this:
Until a fix can be applied, use this as a workaround: use the A-Z journal tool from Serials Solutions to look up access for the needed item and use the links from there into the appropriate database.
Please note that you’ll only see this particular problem with links from OneSearch to ProQuest databases; links to Gale, EBSCO, etc, are not affected.
This problem is affecting all customers using Primo for their discovery service. A fix from Ex Libris may come at any moment. If it looks like Ex Libris is having problems with getting the fix out in a timely manner, we have a plan B here at CUNY to downgrade ProQuest links if there are also full text links to the same content from other vendors (Gale, EBSCO, etc.)
If you want to see the problem in action, try to connect to the full text for this article.