The ProQuest Historical Databases Technology platform is a OpenURL target compliant with the San Antonio profile level 1 (SAP1). We support the following OpenURL versions and syntaxes: 1.0 trial version, and 1.0 balloted version.
Note: To improve readability the OpenURL elements on this page have been broken out into separate lines. When creating actual OpenURL'S the data should not contain any linefeeds or carriage returns.
Version 0.1
Is not supported for Historical Databases
Version 1.0
Following are sample article-level and title-level links with example meta data highlighted:
Article-level Link
http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?
ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004
&res_id=xri:pqd::hnp
&rft_val_fmt=ori/fmt:kev:mtx:journal
&genre=article
&jtitle=New York Daily Times
&issn=
&atitle=General News in Buffalo
&date=1851-10-30
&volume=
&issue=
Title-level Link
http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl
?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004
&res_id=xri:pqd::hnp
&rft_val_fmt=ori:/fmt:kev:mtx:journal
&jtitle=New York Times
&issn=
&svc_id=xri:pqil:context=title
The OpenURL Version 1.0 metadata elements supported by ProQuest are listed in the table below.
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Element
|
Description
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Data Format
|
Required
|
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issn
|
ISSN without dashes
|
numeric
|
Required(1)
|
|
jtitle
|
Journal title
|
Alphanumeric
|
Required(1)
|
|
atitle
|
Article title
|
Alphanumeric
|
Optional
|
|
date
|
Date of publication
|
Numeric
|
Optional(3)
|
|
volume
|
Volume that article is located in
|
Alphanumeric
|
Optional(2)
|
|
issue
|
Issue that article is located in
|
Alphanumeric
|
Optional (2)
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Notes:
1. ISSN or jtitle must be provided.
2. For best results when linking to newspapers do not populate volume / issue information
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