[WEB4LIB] Proquest holdings problems

[Stacy Pober]

Thanks.  I've seen your prior postings on this and your web pages, and
you've done a wonderful job of both developing the searchable database
and sharing the method with others.

Unfortunately, from what I've read, since we don't currently own
FileMaker 4.x which allowed an unlimited number of users, we'd have to
spring for the Filemaker Pro 5's "unlimited" version, at about $1000. 
I've been thinking of asking for this, but it's a little pricey.  

But...even if we did this, would this get our periodical holdings
integrated into ProQuest's holdings utility?  Wouldn't users still have
to exit ProQuest (or be sophisticated enough to open a second browser
window) if they wanted to search the holdings list? 

Stacy

Natalie Sturr wrote:
> 
> Hi -
> 
> We have a searchable database of the fulltext journals we receive from
> database vendors.  You can find it at:
>   http://www.oswego.edu/library/ejournals/
> 
> I've done this in FileMaker Pro.  For information on how I put this
> together, see:
>   http://www.oswego.edu/library/ejournals/how_to/
> 
>           -- Natalie
> 
>         Natalie Sturr                 sturr at oswego.edu
>         Systems Librarian             http://www.oswego.edu/~sturr
>         SUNY Oswego                   Voice:    (315) 312-3565
>         Oswego, NY  13126             FAX:      (315) 312-3194
> 
> On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Stacy Pober wrote:
> 
> > I wanted to try to have our list of journals integrated into the
> > holdings feature for ProQuest, UMI/Bell & Howell's periodical indexing
> > database. The ProQuest files do include some full text, but a large
> > number of titles are index/abstract only.  Since we get a large number
> > of journals through other online vendors, I thought it would be nice to
> > have holdings notes that point users to the source for the full text
> > when we have it available.  We have a large periodical list, over 12,000
> > titles, most of them available through internet vendors.
> <SNIP>
> >
> > Stacy Pober
> > Information Alchemist
> > Manhattan College Libraries
> > spober at manhattan.edu
> > http://www.manhattan.edu/library
> >