[Wactclc-primo] [External] RE: Trying to fix a Primo Problem with New York Times

[Dale Burke]

Thanks Amy and Lesley,

I don't know why I had trouble finding this in the Community Zone, but I
did find it and have now activated it.

Dale Burke
Technical Services Librarian
20000 68th Ave. W
Lynnwood, WA  98036
425-640-1526

dburke at email.edcc.edu

On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 2:04 PM, Herman, Amy <aherman at olympic.edu> wrote:

> Lesley, I find that NYT results that have ( ) in the title like the
> (Foreign Desk) example you use, are much less likely to link, but the
> longer, fuller articles usually do link correctly.  I suspect that the ( )
> articles are very small snippets that are part of something ProQuest
> indexes as a larger article.
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> *Amy Herman*
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> Library Faculty | Olympic College
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> 1600 Chester Avenue | Bremerton, WA 98337
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> aherman at olympic.edu | 360-475-7256 <(360)%20475-7256>
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> *From:* Wactclc-primo [mailto:wactclc-primo-bounces at lists.ctc.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Lesley Caldwell
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 27, 2018 1:59 PM
> *To:* WACTCLC Primo discussions <wactclc-primo at lists.ctc.edu>
> *Subject:* [External] RE: [Wactclc-primo] Trying to fix a Primo Problem
> with New York Times
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> Hi Dale,
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> Pierce College activated US Newsstream in the Community Zone last year.
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> We ran into a couple of issues, though. First, several hundred of the
> portfolios are blogs, and our reference librarians weren’t sure about their
> validity. We actually ended up going through the list of portfolios and
> deactivating some blogs from the list.
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> Second, I’m not sure it’s even working. In looking at what comes through
> Primo, most results are leading to dead ends. For example:
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> If anyone else has any tips, please do share. For what it’s worth, I’m
> considering the “E-Resource Management & Workflows Boot Camp” at the
> Technical Seminar in May.
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> -Lesley
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> *From:* Wactclc-primo [mailto:wactclc-primo-bounces at lists.ctc.edu
> <wactclc-primo-bounces at lists.ctc.edu>] *On Behalf Of *Dale Burke
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 27, 2018 1:18 PM
> *To:* WACTCLC Primo discussions <wactclc-primo at lists.ctc.edu>
> *Subject:* [Wactclc-primo] Trying to fix a Primo Problem with New York
> Times
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> Hello all,
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> Edmonds has access to the New York Times, both past and current, through
> our Proquest subscriptions; however, we are not getting any articles after
> 2014 in our Primo searches.  We do get current articles when searching
> directly in the Proquest database, but not in Primo.
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> When I look at our Proquest titles I see that we have access up to 2014
> through our subscription to Proquest Historical New York Times which we
> have linked through the Primo Central Index.
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> Our access to the current New York Times is through Proquest US
> Newsstream, which is part of the state package.  However, I cannot find
> Proquest US Newsstream in the Primo Central Index or in the Alma Community
> Zone.
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> Have other sites discovered this same problem, or has someone discovered
> what actually needs to be activated through the Primo Central Index in
> order to get current New York Times articles showing up in Primo.
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> Thanks!
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> Dale Burke
> Technical Services Librarian
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> 20000 68th Ave. W
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=20000+68th+Ave.+W+%0D%0A+%0D%0A+%0D%0A+%0D%0A+Lynnwood,+WA+98036&entry=gmail&source=g>
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> Lynnwood, WA
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=20000+68th+Ave.+W+%0D%0A+%0D%0A+%0D%0A+%0D%0A+Lynnwood,+WA+98036&entry=gmail&source=g>
> 98036
> <https://maps.google.com/?q=20000+68th+Ave.+W+%0D%0A+%0D%0A+%0D%0A+%0D%0A+Lynnwood,+WA+98036&entry=gmail&source=g>
> 425-640-1526 <(425)%20640-1526>
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> dburke at email.edcc.edu
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