proquest for serious research and remarkable discoveries
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ProQuestFor Serious Research and Remarkable Discoveries
The ProQuest Family Tree– Two Forces Unite– The Portfolio
The ProQuest Journey– Your Path to Discovery– Laying the Path
Our Journey Today
Two Forces Unite
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Integration Starts with Common Vision
Shared goal to serve serious researchers and information seekers wherever they may be in the world
Committed to the creation of tools that expedite discovery and offer:
–High-quality information
–Ease of access
–Editorial excellence (indexing, abstracting, content selection)
–Tailored applications for different research needs
The Response
A clear vote of confidence from the industry
“…management has the vision and the conviction to make the new enterprise work for the benefit of information users.”Dick Kaser, Information Today
About ProQuest
– Family ownership of information services and publishing companies around the world
– 30+ year strategy– Long-term commitment to researchers– Strong financial base
About ProQuest
About ProQuest
Business Databases; General Reference Databases; Social Science Databases; STM Databases; Historical Newspapers; Digital Vault; Micromedia; SoftLine.
Serials in Microform; Newspapers in Microform; Microform Collections.
Humanities Databases; Literature Databases; International Geopolitical Databases.
Bibliographic databases grouped around Technology; Natural Science; Social Science; Arts & Humanities.
Provides a complete and integrated family of e-resource access and management services, including 360 , our premier integrated solution.
About ProQuest
Deep indexing of journals to include images, charts and graphs
Tool for finding researchers by specific area of study; database of available opportunities for grants, fellowships, prizes and other type of funding
Bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world
K-12 Schools Market; Research databases; Curriculum products; Topic tree access; Photographs; Multimedia
Designed to Encourage Exploration and Discovery
The ProQuest Journey
A Fascinating Past- authoritative discovery aides and vast content pools
Superior Solutions- powerful enabling technology tools
Rewarding Research- the highest quality information solutions Effortless Exploration
- seamless access and navigation of the world’s scholarship delivered to your desktop
ABI / INFORM
The original aggregated business journals database, described as “one of the longest-lived and most prominent online products that has shaped the information professionals’ world” by Online Magazine
Used in 84% of the top global business schools (US News & World Report)
ABI / INFORM AT CAPES
Publishing Partners
Key exclusives 4,500+ publisher agreements 3,700 journals 800 newspapers
A&C Black Bloomsbury Academic Press Arnold Publishers Biblioteca Nacional de España Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal Brill Academic Publishers The British Library Carcanet Christian Science Monitor CSIC Debretts Deutscher Klassiker Verlag Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal Economist Newspapers EIU Emerald Financial Times Getty Images Guardian Newspapers Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (UK) Indiana University Press Johns Hopkins University Press Lavoisier McGraw-Hill MIT Sloan Management Review Modern Humanities Research Association The New York Times News International Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Oxford Analytica Oxford University Press Palgrave Macmillan Pearson Education Penguin Philipp Reclam Jun.Verlag Reed Business Information S.Fischer Verlag S Karger AG Basel Sage Springer Science and Business Media Suhrkamp Verlag Taylor and Francis Time Inc United Nations University of California Press University of Virginia Library Verlag J.B.Metzler Voltaire Foundation Wall Street Journal Wiley
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
The world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses
Includes over 2.3 million dissertation and thesis citations Over 1.9 million of them available in
print and microform Over 830,000 of them available in PDF
format Everything from 1997 forward Backfile of PDFs growing, too
70% of The Times top 100 institutions use PQ’s dissertation suite
Technology and Platform
Platform– Smart Search
• Facetted Search results
– Interface in 14 languages, including Spanish and Portuguese
– ProQuest One Click Resource Linking • Linking from A&I in ProQuest to the full text in the library’s other
resources
– Pollination of content across platforms • Integration of content from multiple platforms – books, journals, A&I,
dissertations, market research reports
Winner “best specialist search
engine” Information Industry Awards
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