I am using proquest, ebsco etc through a university vpn. Unfortunately I think zotero 2.0.3 does not recognize it as a source. I think because of this the browser bar icon does not show up, is there a

Proquest site translator doesn't seem to be working.

Thanks. I'll find a way to stick with Proquest.

Proquest definitely has the best metadata for theses. I know no better alternative. I don't know what Proquest looks like when not on a university network, but can't you get to the metadata at least?

in the "extra" field. I do not have access to Proquest Dissertations from my home computer. Any suggestions, or do I need to copy and paste the info. from the "extra" field and create a "thesis" entr

Sometimes you can find other sites that have the content of the magazine, like ProQuest or something, if you find yourself needing many older articles.

I'm using Z and I'm running into a little snag. be it using google scholar, or Proquest Business, I find that more often than not I'm having a great deal of trouble getting the right information to b

mates just copied the stable URL in from say ProQuest. I made sure I grabbed the HTML get the SPAN tag and use that in my Blogger. Worked liked a charm and got praise for a very neat and tidy posting

I use OCR extensively. My point is that disabled users should not have to go through a resource and time consuming extra step in order to access information they retrieve from database vendors when ab

pdfs - and it doesn't matter how I open them. (Proquest actually calls them "Scanned Image PDFs" to highlight that).

Respectfully, I am not wrong about PDFs. I may be wrong about the technical details (I am a historian), but I am not wrong about the usability issues. Use Proquest for 19th-century documents and see i

from repositories like ScienceDirect, JSTOR, ProQuest, et cetera, thereby subverting the annoying habit of many of these sites to open PDFs for you. This gives you full control over the PDFs (I outli

Dragon on library computers, databases such as ProQuest would not work: IT insisted the workstations were adequate, most of the database vendors denied that there was a problem. The solution was more

For sites like ProQuest that force you to read PDFs in the browser, you can actually make Firefox open them in Acrobat, or make Firefox download them. See this page. But even better, you can save the

I use Dragon naturally speaking, the standard voice recognition software. I am considering switching to Zotero, but I am having trouble editing bibliographic records (a problem I have not encountered

there sometimes after I unceremoniously accused ProQuest top manager demonstrating their products for our institution for ignoring international standards ;-) Irony is, I used to be a strong ISO 690

I have just completed pulling in a set of about 165 articles from the Proquest Historical Newspaper database into my library. Unfortunately, I imported these articles by selecting the option to "Expor

The translator from ECCO (using Gale's Proquest) seems to be working as of 2:50 CST. Thanks!

I'm unable to translate from Proquest--the translator icon appears in the address bar, but Zotero returns a "cannot save item" response. The url is: http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=833812072&Fmt=1&

Search Premier, ACM Digital Library, and Proquest's CBCA Reference. They were able to add citations for books from our library catalog (http://jupiter.eciad.ca). Clicking on the hyperlink for Known T