ProQuest Local Administrator LAD

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ProQuest Local Administrator (LAD)
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Main Features

• Usage Reports
• Download and schedule
• Account Preferences
• Authentication / Interface settings / Customised
  URLs / Branding /
• Collection Information
• Title Lists / Marc Records
• CrossLinks
• LAD assistants

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Usage Reports

• Available in eight different ProQuest formats
• Available in three COUNTER formats
• Available as HTML or Excel compatible delimited
  files
• Can be emailed
• Can be scheduled
• set a schedule and have it mailed at
  predetermined intervals
• Consortium Administrators can view usage
  statistics for multiple libraries within the EPIC
  membership group

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Usage Reports
Select type of report and organisation
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Usage Reports
It is possible to view statistics for all members
of the group if required
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Usage Reports
A basic usage report showing the EPIC group and
its member accounts
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Usage Reports
Reports can be scheduled to be run automatically
and emailed to an administrator
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Usage Reports
Administrators can also choose to view the
statistics for just a single member of their group
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Usage reports additional information
Usage Reports

• The administrator for EPIC can view the
  statistics for every account within the EPIC
  Membership group
• These can be viewed all together or individually
• The individual member library administrators e.g
  Hutt City Libraries can view their own statistics
  
• The individual member administrators
  administrators can only view their own statistics

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Account preferences

• Account preference settings allow administrators
  to
• Add branding
• Change the default login options e.g. set the
  advanced search page as the default homepage
  after login
• Change search interface settings

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Account preferences
Some of the search interface settings that can be
changed or set by administrators
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Account preferences
Branding allows you to add custom links, logos
and text to the ProQuest interface
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Account preferences
Branding links and logos will appear in the
interface This example shows a Christchurch
City Libraries
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Account preferences additional information

• Accounts preferences for a single account can
  only be changed by the direct account
  administrator i.e. it is not possible for a
  higher level administrator to change account
  preferences for a lower level account
• All accounts can have separate interface settings
  if required.

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Collection Information

• View which titles are available in your
  collections
• Download a title list in various formats
  including Excel and HTML and MARC
• Request information about your collection
  including embargo dates and full text dates (from
  to)

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Collection Information
Select the type and format of your title list and
choose which databases to view collection
information for.
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Collection Information
Example of a downloaded Excel spreadsheet
containing collection information
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CrossLinks and Holdings

• Applying CrossLinks to ProQuest titles allows you
  to link from citations in ProQuest to other
  sources of full text including
• OPACs
• Web pages
• Full text in other databases
• A-Z lists

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CrossLinks
CrossLinks appear when the relevant full text is
not available in ProQuest.
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CrossLinks
Clicking the crosslink will take the user to the
full text in another resource
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LAD Assistants

• It is possible to create assistant accounts
  within the LAD. These assistants will have
  limited access to the LAD
• E.g. A usage administrator will only be able to
  view and download usage statistics

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Set up an assistant administrator account by
choosing the parts of the LAD that the assistant
will be allowed to access