Document Formats
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Glossary Item Box

A document can be stored in ProQuest in one or more of the formats described below. For any document in a search results list, labelled format icons indicate format availability. Click the format icon/link to display the corresponding format.

With a document displayed in any format, you can select from a common set of tasks and options

Document details
Document formats
Other ways to get a document

Document details

Citation/Abstract

Bibliographic information, available abstract/summary. This format appears when there is no full text available for an item. 

Brief citation

Basic bibliographic information only.

Full text + graphics

Citation, abstract, complete document text, image thumbnails (if available)

Important to know: Click a thumbnail image to view an enlargement in Image View.

With Full text displayed, click Turn on search term navigation, to locate (highlight) occurrences of your search term(s).

If your institution has set up links from ProQuest citations to other resources, you will also be able to view those.

Document formats

Icon for abstract document type Abstract

Provides a summary or statement of the contents of an item.

Icon indicating audio content is available Audio content

Provides embedded audio and the associated record.

Full text document format icon Full text

Full text consists of citation, abstract and complete document text. Any photographs, illustrations, charts, or other images, including scanned images of page content, may also display.

Illustration document format icon Illustration

Download illustrations from a document.

JPEG Image Viewer

Use the JPEG Image View if you have executed a search and you want to view instances of your search term.

To access the Image View page, click an image thumbnail on the Document View page.

In cases where an article contains more than one image, you can move between images using the Previous/Next Image links on the Image View page without having to go back to the Document View page. Alternatively, you can type an image number into the box and click Go.

JPEG format images are indicated by the JPEG format icon icon.

Microsoft Word document format icon Microsoft Word document

Document in Word (.doc, .dot, .rtf, etc.) format.

Clickable page view icon Page view (clickable)

In the case of historical newspaper content, or magazine content, items are also available in Page view (clickable) format. Whereas PDF (Portable Document Format) format is a scan of a single document, the page view options offer a scan of a whole page spread of a newspaper (which may contain several articles) so you can view articles in their wider context within the publication. Page view (clickable) format acts as a navigation aid; you can click the hotspots for each article on a page spread to go to a scan of just that article so you can view it in more detail. In addition, instances of your search terms are highlighted in Page view (clickable) format.

PDF document format icon PDF

Where available, you can view documents in Portable Document Format (PDF). This can be used across many different types of computers and browsers, and will preserve the look and feel of the original document in terms of fonts, layout, and images.

Either scanned images of documents in PDF or "native" PDF documents created from source files are able to be read by screenreaders. For Dissertations & Theses content, you can also click this icon to view either a preview of the first few pages of a dissertation or thesis in PDF format, or a thumb-nail scanned image of the first 24 pages of the document, letting you quickly locate, enlarge and view pages of interest.

You can use the PDF options to work with the document in a variety of ways, including:

Document format icon for rich text format Rich Text Format

Download an item in Microsoft's RTF (rich text format) so that you can save the text into almost all versions of any word processor and on any computer operating system, and make changes to the content if you want to.

Icon for supplemental file document format Supplemental file

In cases where there are dissertations that have been submitted with supplemental files, this icon indicates the presence of additional supporting material. Additional icons will indicate the type of material, for example, audio/video, text files, images, scripts, data files, and so on.

In some cases, you may have to download specialist software or plug-ins in order to be able to view supplemental files; for example, if you want to view a 3D simulation, you would not be able to unless you had previously installed the software that was used to create the file.

Excel spreadsheet document format icon Spreadsheet

Download an Excel spreadsheet file (.xls, etc.), for example as found in ProQuest Entrepreneurship.

Icon for text and graphics document format Text and Graphics

Complete document text plus any available images.

Icon for TIFF document format TIFF

Download an image in .tiff (Tagged Image file) format.

Icon for Transcript document format Transcript

This icon indicates the presence of a transcript for video content.

Icon for video format Video

View video content using the player embedded in the Video Document View page; if you want to view the video at full screen size, click the Full screen icon to the right of the video player window.

Icon for downloadable video content Video download

View and download video content in a variety of formats, and view transcripts of video content. Instances of your search term will be shown as highlighted.

You can also download the video in different formats using the appropriate Format links. The following formats are available:

Icon for zip file Zip file

In ProQuest EIS (Digest of Environmental Impact Statements), this icon allows you to download a zip file containing all available PDFs.

Other ways to get a document

Image for Find a copy, a piece of paper with an arrow pointing to the right Find a copy

Find a copy links to local holdings for an item in your institution, where available. Note that account administrators can also set up custom Find a copy links using the ProQuest Administrator Module, or set up resource linking with OneClick™. This uses an OpenURL link resolver to link from ProQuest citations directly to the full text in your library's other resources in cases where full text is not available in ProQuest but is available in another resource at your institution.

Image for order a copy, a shopping cart Order a copy

Order a copy lists the document formats available for purchase, including electronic PDF, Unbound Paper Copy, Softcover Paper Copy, Hardcover Paper Copy, 35mm Roll Microfilm, and Microfiche (ProQuest Dissertations and Theses only). Note that account administrators can also set up custom order a copy links using the ProQuest Administrator Module.

Image for linking to full text, a piece of paper with an arrow pointing up and to the right Full text

You can link to full text content available through third party sites, e.g. NAXOS, JSTOR, Project MUSE etc. In some cases, the presence of third party full text will be indicated by proprietary icons, for example, Image is a piece of paper with jSTOR text or Image is a piece of paper with MUSE text.  

Image for interlibrary loan - parthenon Interlibrary loan

If your library/institution has set up an interlibrary loan system, you can request items that are held in other institutions.

 

 

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