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How to Use ProQuest Legislative Insight

Why Create a Profile

A Legislative Insight profile is a list of searches, legislative histories, or individual documents you want to save to view at a later point. 

Log in to your profile by clicking on the link in the upper left corner of the page. Once you've logged in, you can go back to review and edit what is in your profile by clicking on the link in the same place (the upper left corner of the page).

Creating a Profile

the link to a profile

To create a profile, or to sign in after you have created a profile, simply click on the link in the upper left corner of any of the search pages.  

Creating an account/signing in requires an email account and password.  An email account is requested so that your password can be forwarded to you in the event you forget it.  

Adding to the Profile

adding a search 

Once you've created a profile, you can easily add searches or individual results or even specific documents by using the links.

 adding leg histories

There are also links from within a specific legislative history.

Reusing Your Search Information

To share a search

  1. Do the search
  2. Copy and paste the URL into an e-mail and Send

To share a publication

  1. Copy and paste the URL from the record (metadata) into an e-mail
  2. Send

Other ways to share

  • Instead of hitting export or save to profile from the doc record, select e-mail. Send. When you get the e-mail, just click on the link
  • If you want to share something already in your profile, click on it to restore the URL, send the URL, and then the recipient can save it to their profile