Linking to the ProQuest newspapers

As of July 1, Newsbank has been replaced with ProQuest's "Massachusetts Newsstand." This database includes 12 newspapers from across the state:

Berkshire Eagle
Boston Globe
Boston Herald
BusinessWest (Chicopee)
North Adams Transcript
Patriot Ledger (Quincy)
Plymouth County Business Review
Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg)
Sun, The (Lowell)
Telegram & Gazette (Worcester)
Gazette (Haverhill) 12/31/92 to 8/9/97 only
Standard Times (New Bedford) 1/4/92 to 8/19/97 only

Your library's links to the entire Massachusetts Newsstand collection, as well as to the individual papers, can be found at http://mblc.state.ma.us/grants/licenses/proquest.php. Alternatively, the links are included with those for all the CMRLS/MBLC databases in the 'link generator" spreadsheet, downloadable from http://www.cmrls.org/databases/help/link_generator.htm.

ProQuest links can be further "customized" to pre-select a subset of newspapers to search. For example, you could provide separate links to "Boston Newspapers" (Globe and Herald), and "Central MA Newspapers" (T&G, Sentinel).

Additionally, ProQuest lets you control whether users view a "search page" or the "databases page" when they log in to ProQuest. Currently the search page is set as the default for all libraries, and the databases page is viewable from the "Databases selected" link. With the database page as default, users are first presented with a list of newspapers to be search and the option to modify that list or go directly to any paper.

If you would like to implement any of these customizations to the ProQuest databases, or for questions about any of the online databases contact Rick Levine (rlevine@cmrls.org, x308) or Dodie Gaudet (dgaudet@cmrls.org, x307) at CMRLS.