Government Information & Primary Source Collections MIGRATION Update – June
ProQuest Congressional, Government Periodicals Index, Legislative Insight, Statistical Insight, History Vault Resources
ProQuest Congressional subscriptions are now exclusively available via ProQuest Congressional and no longer available via LexisNexis servers. Bookmark this page: www.proquest.com/go/congmigration and check back for the latest news.
Search Syntax Modifications
- To provide more focused results and remind users of the quoted search function, the type-ahead feature now places the pasted text in quotes for an exact search.
- In response to customer feedback, ProQuest has implemented the following Boolean connector modifications:
- Default keyword search connection now uses an implied AND.
- The search Iran Iraq will be seen by the system as Iran AND Iraq
- Boolean connectors AND, OR, and NOT are now case-insensitive.
- Iran and Iraq, Iran Iraq, and Iran AND Iraq will now return the same results set
- Because these Boolean connectors are now case insensitive, lowercase "and", "or", and "not" have been removed from the "stop" or "non-keyword" list. Previously these words were disregarded by the search engine unless used in a quoted exact phrase search.
- Default keyword search connection now uses an implied AND.
MARC Records
Shortly after we put our files of MARC records for the Congressional Hearings Digital Collection (CHDC) and Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC) with ProQuest pointing URLs instead of LexisNexis pointing URLs on our ftp server, we became aware that the record numbers in the records on the ftp server did not match the record numbers in the CHDC and CRDC records that were in a customer’s catalog. This resulted in numerous instances in which the new record overlaid the incorrect existing record.
In response, we removed the CHDC and CRDC records from the ftp server and compared the record numbers in those files with those from older sets of records that had been available to customers in past years. We discovered that there were record numbers in the files of older records that did not exist in the records with the new URLs. We also discovered that the same was true for the Serial Set 1 monographs and serials and the Unpublished Congressional Hearings MARC records.
We have reposted the CHDC and CRDC records on the ftp server.
- If you have never loaded the MARC records for our digital collections, there should be no problem with loading the records on the ftp server.
- If you have loaded our CHDC, CRDC, Serial Set 1 or Unpublished Congressional Hearings records with LexisNexis pointing URLs into your catalog in the past and now want to load the new records, we strongly recommend that you delete the records for those collections that are in your catalog now and load the new ones, or that you use the find and replace function of your integrated library system to make the changes to the URL and other fields as found in the instructions here: http://proquest.libguides.com/marc.
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If these options are not possible for you, and you want to load the new records and overlay your existing records, search your catalog for the record number ranges listed below for each collection that you own.
CHDC: cis2007476005 - cis2007479250
CRDC: cis2007500001 - cis2007519600
Unpublished Congressional Hearings: cis2007529200 - cis2007529080
Serial Set 1 monographs: cis2004500633 - cis2004500646
Serial Set 1 serials: cis2004318001 - cis200432164
If these record numbers are in the records in your catalog, the new records will not load correctly. Please contact our Cataloging Librarian, Scott Whittaker. He will work with you to provide you with records that will overlay your records and resolve the issue. If you have any questions regarding this message, you can contact Scott with those as well.
As usual, we will be keeping you posted as we make additional enhancements. But in the meantime, if you should have any questions, please click here.
