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   RE: PsycINFO - preference for platform?
 From: Jane Yatcilla
 To: Evidence Synthesis Methods Interest Group
 Posted: Feb 02, 2023 10:34 AM
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I also prefer exporting from the EBSCOhost platform than from ProQuest. PQ has made it very difficult to export large numbers of records...they want your institution to purchase their Text and Data Mining product for this.*

Meanwhile, exporting a large number of records from EBSCOhost is a snap (except that they took away the ability to add a subject line to the email that delivers your download link).

Jane @ Purdue

*If for some reason you want to export every field in a ProQuest record, you can ONLY do it with a .txt export <grumblegrumble> Fortunately this is not so relevant to exporting records for a systematic review, because we usually just want citations & abstracts.


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Original Message:
Sent: 2/1/2023 10:09:00 AM
From: Amy Riegelman
Subject: RE: PsycINFO - preference for platform?

Hi! I want to caution against choosing Proquest. My experience with exporting citations has been pretty horrific-- export limits, getting timed out, client-side deduplication that isn't communicated with the user so the total # of results doesn't = the # in the RIS file. Although, I will say that things have gotten a bit better recently. See: https://support.proquest.com/s/article/How-can-I-export-all-my-search-results-in-ProQuest?language=en_US

Even with improvements, I much prefer 1. Ovid and 2. EBSCO as platforms.

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Amy Riegelman (she, her, hers)
Social Sciences & Evidence Synthesis Librarian
University of Minnesota



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Original Message:
Sent: 1/30/2023 10:39:00 PM
From: Anita Kuiken
Subject: PsycINFO - preference for platform?

Hi, folks.

We currently have PsycINFO on the EBSCO platform. When conducting Evidence Synthesis-related research projects, we had heard that it was easier to download results on the Proquest platform. When it comes to Ev Synth work, do you all have a platform preference? If so, why do you like one over the other?

 

Best,

Anita

 

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