CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, October 30, 2004 - ProQuest Information and Learning now offers full Open URL support to PCI and PCI Full Text . Users are able to submit OpenURLs from citation records in PCI and PCI Full Text to link resolvers such as Article Linker and SFX to locate full text or physical holdings for articles or journals. PCI Full Text is also fully compatible with Z39.50 and can be searched by remote systems and citation management tools using the technology.

Periodicals Contents Index (PCI) is an electronic index to millions of articles published in 4,547 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. It offers researchers quick access to every article relevant to their particular field of study. PCI Full Text provides online access to more than 4 million pages in three collections of 100 humanities and social sciences journals each, an expanding virtual library of retrospective journals from 1800-1991. Users link seamlessly from the bibliographic data in PCI to the digitised journal pages available in PCI Full Text.

Many other new features and functionality have been added to the PCI suite of research databases, including:

• Hit highlighting in PCI Full Text for all journals with searchable full text. Users may search the article text itself in a growing collection of searchable full-text journals, as well as the citation
• MARC records are available at no charge for all titles in PCI and PCI Full Text with durable URLs that conform to the Open URL standard
• Users can now search PCI Full Text using author names and journal titles in either inverted (last name comma first name) or standard (first name last name) forms. For example, “Chomsky, Noam” or “Noam Chomsky” will both return the same results Users of EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager and RefWorks can now export citations from PCI and PCI Full Text into these systems.

PCI is unique in combining a broad subject base with deep chronological coverage going back over 200 years. It covers 37 key subject areas in the humanities and social sciences and offers vast variety within these subject areas. PCI currently indexes 14.5 million articles since the eighteenth century and every article in each journal is indexed.

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