Today we switched over to the new ProQuest interface. The look of this new interface is a lot cleaner and lightweight (this seems to be a mini-trend, as the new Factiva and Passport GMID interfaces feel lighter, too).
What’s New Here?
- PAIS International is now in ProQuest instead in CSA
- Links to SFX now include the “Find It” icon instead of just text
- A “Figures & Tables” search in some databases
- A “Data & Reports” search in ABI/INFORM Global
- Historical and non-historical databases can be searched together
Bugs/Quirks
- If you are looking at the item record for an article where there is no full text, you’ll see two “Find It” icons (see this example). ProQuest told me that they are working on this problem.
- The link to our Ask a Librarian service went from the top right of the page in the old interface to the bottom right of the new one (but we now can have an icon instead of just a text link).
- Please contact Mike or me with any problems you find in the new interface.
Fixing Links in LibGuides
The new interface has a new base URL (search.proquest.com). Using a find and replace feature in LibGuides, I was able to update some but not all of the links in LibGuides that went to the old interface (the search and find only works in certain kinds of boxes in the LibGuides system). Please check any links in your guides now to make sure they point to the new URLs.