Through most public library portals, "set Alert" within ProQuest-Gale newspaper database will email you all new headlines from any number of major newspapers and magazines which click thru to ad-free, full-text versions. An amazing, mostly ignored free service.

One key exception is Financial Times of London (Noam Chomsky's preferred newspaper, fwiw) which delays full-text by 30 days so I keep a shortcut on my phone home screen to a past date on archive.ph From here, I click the top banner and it refreshes to today's headlines which then click thru to full-text stories. Not so bad. The news itself couldn't be worse but...
https://archive.ph/DMrF0

#LibraryFinds #ProQuest #EBSCODiscoveryService #newspapers

I understand the concern around #Clarivate #Proquest buying #ERIC database. They might begin to charge for access (However, I have some doubts that they'll do that).

Nevertheless, were there alternatives? Yes, the government should have never defund it, but they did.

And, unless there were any better alternatives of acquisition that I'm unaware of, the buying by Clarivate at least give some expectative that the resource could survive

https://boletinscielomx.blogspot.com/2025/08/admon-trump-desfondo-al-indice-eric-el.html

El estudio determina que #ProQuest supera a #EBSCO en términos de funcionalidad y usabilidad, tanto para usuarios finales como para administradores de colección. Sus características más refinadas y mejor experiencia de uso la convierten en una opción preferible para #bibliotecas

@christof @ElenLeFoll @proghist @creativecommons @dingemansemark

This is getting worse by the minute. I followed @christof|s hint concerning the reproduction of articles from #DHQ / @DHQuarterly looking for one of my own papers (https://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/16/2/000593/000593.html).

In this case #ProQuest blatantly violates the CC BY-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/) by

- not mentioning the license
- producing a derivative
- not linking to the original

I am very much in favour of @adho.org, as the publisher of @DHQuarterly, following the path outlined by @dingemansemark. I will also log a complaint with #ProQuest through my employer.

#AcademicPublishing #Licensing #Piracy #PlatformCapitalism #PredatoryPublishing

@christof @ElenLeFoll @proghist @creativecommons

After reading through the CC BY license I am none the wiser whether one has to clearly indicate that the material in question had been originally published somewhere else. The DOI as provided by #ProQuest reveals this fact but only after manually parsing the string with a resolver. Readers unfamiliar with the Programming Historian are made to believe that ProQuest is the original publisher or the platform officially hosting the original content.

However, ProQuest clearly violates the attribution requirements by modifying the layout and removing images. The CC BY license explicitly states that “You must […] indicate if You modified the Licensed Material”.

#AcademicPublishing #PredatoryPublishing #OpenLicenses #CreativeCommons #DigitalHumanities

#ProQuest + #GoogleScholar = scam? Exhibit #123:

- Researcher publishes article in journal, using #CC BY.
- ProQuest republishes article, with author, title, date, DOI, licence. Also, with terrible layout, but without images.
- Their DOI doesn't link anywhere. You need to type "https:/doi.org/", add the DOI, paste URL, to find the actual publication. Grey zone of CC BY requirements?
- GS indexes the publication and provides the ProQuest link instead of the proper URL.

Aaargh.

Wow eBookCentral von #ProQuest bietet jetzt bei #Ebooks KI-generierte "Key takeaways" für einzelne Kapitel. Dann lesen heutige Geschichtsstudierende bald wohl nicht mal mehr die Abstracts....

@oatp Wenn ich in 1 Bibliothek Entscheidungen über E-Ressourcen und die Anbieter, bei denen ich erwerbe treffen müsste, würde ich genau gar nichts machen.

Sondern zusehen wie die Abschaffung von Perpetual Access bei der Erwerbung von E-Books auf der Plattform #EbookCentral (#ProQuest bzw. #Clarivate) und das alleinige Angebot von befristeten Lizenzen meine Universität/Hochschule/Forschungseinrichtung dazu verleitet bibliotheksunabhängig ins Streaming-Game einzusteigen.

#Subskription #ebookSOS

#libraries #databases #ProQuest #Clarivate

"The removal of perpetual purchases from Clarivate’s sales models runs counter to library values of long-term preservation and access to information. Subscriptions might work for some libraries, but perpetual purchases are important for the preservation of the written record, especially at research institutions."

https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/future-of-work/2025/clarivate-a-master-class-in-losing-trust

Aus dem Alltag der #OnePersonLibrary

#Ebooks sind für wiss. #Spezialbibliotheken ein wichtiges, häufg auch vernachlässigtes Thema in der #Erwerbung und beim #Lizenzmanagement.

Kürzlich erreichte die #LIS Community die Nachricht, dass #EbookCentral (#ProQuest/#Clarivate) kurzfristig auf eine "new subscription-based access strategy for academia" umsteigt.

Nun heute kurzes Aufatmen & #Erwerbungsstrategien planbarer: Verlängerung bis zum 30.06.2026

https://about.proquest.com/en/blog/2025/introducing-proquest-ebooks-the-worlds-largest-scholarly-ebook-subscription/

"As #ProQuest exits the print book market, will we see a new era of #bigdeals for #ebooks?"
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/02/21/as-proquest-exits-the-print-book-market-will-we-see-a-new-era-of-big-deals-for-ebooks/

"Commercial publishers prefer institutions to sign up to a leasing #subscription model, as they offer little in the way of perpetual rights. This means that if a #Library decides to cancel, they have no owned content to show for their expenditure."

PS: I hope #libraries steer clear of this atrocious model. It uses their real need for access against them. If they're desperate enough to buy a subscription, they're letting their desperation lead them into a trap.

#books

A librarian’s summary of, and response to, the #Clarivate announcement

Very nice post by by @Siobhan_M

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https://www.uksg.org/newsletter/uksg-enews-582/opinion-a-librarians-summary-of-and-response-to-the-clarivate-announcement/

#ProQuest #Rialto #EbookCentral #ebooks #libraries #acquisitions #collections #perpetualaccess

Oh, people just found the reaction button... #proquest

Ich stehe da immer wieder ratslos davor.

Man sollte von #casalini wie über #proquest keine #ebooks kaufen.

Bei casalini gibt's ja sonst immer die Möglichkeit, sich aus dem Quelltext der PDF-Vorschau den Dateinamen der unverschlüsselten PDF zu ziehen. In meinem Fall ist aber jetzt sogar die Vorschau irgendwie kaputt ...

Schade, die Sachen wären durchaus einschlägig ...

FID-Lizenzen: 138 neue E-Books bei #ProQuest Ebook-Central aus dem gesamten Fächerspektrum des Fachinformationsdienstes #Altertumswissenschaften. Die #FID-Lizenzen richten sich an alle Studierenden & Forschenden der Altertumswissenschaften. Mehr Infos: https://www.propylaeum.de/blog/permalink/680
#FIDLizenz

Dear #dhpeople ,

I am helping a researcher in #philosophy of #aesthetics to download hundred of thousands of #art critical reviews for research purpose. Many of those reviews are on the online databasis #proquest which my university pays for us researchers to have access to.
However before diving into a head ache of #webscraping I am wondering if any of you has dealt with this databasis? What did you end up doing? Writing to them to ask? #Scraping? How? Any feedback? #digitalhumanities #dh #Histodon #fedihum #histodons #humanites_numeriques

Anyone use #ProQuest to read newspaper articles? My local library has a free link to the newspaper which published the article (dated yesterday) I want to read, but the article is not among the news items listed in the Pro-Quest search results. Does Pro-Quest only carry *some* articles and not the whole newspaper?

Ob es schon bibliometrische Studien gibt, die zeigen, dass Titel, die auf #proquest bereitstehen (und die nicht parallel in irgendeiner konsumierbaren Form erworben wurden) signifikant weniger verwendet werden? Ein ewiges Ärgernis.

FID-Lizenzen: 211 neue E-Books bei ProQuest Ebook-Central aus dem gesamten Fächerspektrum des Fachinformationsdienstes Altertumswissenschaften. Die FID-Lizenzen richten sich an alle Studierenden und Forschenden der Altertumswissenschaften. Mehr Informationen unter: https://www.propylaeum.de/en/blog/permalink/666
#Altertumswissenschaften #FIDLizenz #FID #ProQuest

Auch mit Blick auf das #Datentracking scheint mir #ProQuest nicht ganz ok. Das ist überhaupt nicht mein Gebiet, aber auf den ersten Blick scheint es so, als hätte man eine individuelle User-ID, auch wenn man kein Proquest-Konto hat und über einen Bibliotheksproxy darauf zugreift. Da kann sich Clarivate dann ein gutes Profil von einem machen.

#ProPest