ProQuest Central

• Product Overview– Largest aggregated full-text database in the market today– 11,700+ titles (8,800+ in full text)

• 550+ full text newspapers

– Non-periodical content• 250+ countries and regions covered (OxResearch and EIU)• Nearly 30,000 full text dissertations• More than 60 reference sources, including:

– Brookings Papers, OEF, Career Guides, Occupational Outlook Handbook

• 44,000+ Company Records (Hoover’s)• 3,000+ Industry Reports (Snapshots)

– 160+ disciplines represented– Resides on award-winning ProQuest classic platform

Serves as a central resource for researchers at all levels

ProQuest Central

ProQuest Central includes the following ProQuest databases

Expanding Your ProQuest Offering

Business and General Reference

ABI/IFORM Complete

Accounting & Tax

Banking Information Source

Asian Business & Reference

Research Library

Education Journals

Canadian Business & Current Affairs

ProQuest Newsstand

Health and Medical

Health and Medical Complete

Pharmaceutical News Index

ProQuest Nursing

Psychology Journals

Science & Technology

ProQuest Computing

Career & Technology

ProQuest Telecommunications

Science Journals

Criminal Justice Periodicals

ProQuest Military

Biology Journals

Subject Highlights: Business

ProQuest Central

Top Titles Include• Wall Street

Journal• The Economist• Business Week• Journal of

American Academy of Business

• Journal of Business Ethics

• Fortune• Strategic Finance

• ABI/INFORM Complete!• Also includes Accounting & Tax, Banking

Information Source, and Asian Business & Reference

• Over 4,000 scholarly and trade business publications with 2,950 in full text

• Exclusive access from top publishers such as Dow Jones, Emerald Publishing Group, Palgrave, OUP, MIT Sloan Management and more!

• Archive back to 1905• Vast majority of the titles are manually

indexed which improves search precision

Subject Highlights: Health

ProQuest Central

• Includes ProQuest Health & Medical Complete, Nursing & Allied Health Source, Psychology Journals and more.

• Nearly 1,400 titles covering clinical research and consumer health with more than 1,100 in full text

• Journals cover all major clinical and healthcare disciplines, including medical sciences, immunology, pharmacy and pharmacology, nursing, physical fitness and hygiene, surgery, and others

• Exclusive full text access to The Lancet and top publishers such as Cambridge University Press and more!

Top Titles Include• The Lancet• The New England

Journal of Medicine• The American

Journal of Psychiatry

• The American Journal of Public Health

• Nursing Standard• Pediatrics• Journal of Nursing

Education

Subject Highlights: Technology

ProQuest Central

Top Titles Include• Computerworld• M2 Presswire• Communications

of the ACM• InformationWeek• Network World• MIS Quarterly• CRN• Oil & Gas Journal• Journal of Global

Information Management

• Bioscience

• Includes popular databases such as ProQuest Computing, Career & Technology, ProQuest Military, Science Journals and more…

• More than 1,000 full text sources• Content complements CSA Illumina Indexes

• ProQuest will continue increase full text coverage for these files

• Trade coverage is unmatched• ProQuest Central offers the broadest range

of technology coverage to better service your diverse user community

Subject Highlights: General Reference

ProQuest Central

Top Titles Include• Library Journal• Time• Newsweek• Choice• Foreign Affairs• The Booklist• MacLean’s• Adolescence• Consumer

Reports• Billboard

• Includes popular databases such as Research Library, Education Journals, CJPI, and Canadian Business & Current Affairs

• More than 3,000 full text titles• Broad range of titles from Time to Consumer

Reports• Deep coverage of titles in Full-Page Image

(PDF) format. Many go back 20 years!• Suite of products built around the Periodical

Abstracts (PA) Index.• Allows users to cross search seamlessly across a

wide range of data using one common vocabulary

Current Newspapers

ProQuest Central

• Full text newspapers are often the most requested items in aggregated offerings from vendors

• Over 550 full text newspapers • Vast majority of newspapers offer comprehensive full text coverage

from 1995 forward• Newspapers range from major worldwide titles to local state papers• ProQuest offers the deepest full text archive of The New York Times

back to 1980• Top titles include The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago

Tribune, Los Angeles Times, The Globe & Mail, The Daily Telegraph

ProQuest offers exclusive full text access of The Wall Street Journaland the Los Angeles Times to the library market!

ProQuest Central

Non-Periodical Content

Hoover’s Company Records

ProQuest Central

• 45,000 Company Records • Users can integrate business

information from one of the world’s leading electronic distributors of information about companies, industries, and the people who lead them

• With IntelliDocs™ technology, users can put company information in context by linking directly from articles in ProQuest® to Hoover‘s Records

ProQuest is only library vendor offering Hoover’s Company Records

Snapshots® Series

ProQuest is Exclusive Provider of Snapshots to Library Market

ProQuest Central

• 3,000+ Industries and Regions– More than 9000 reports

• Provide up-to-date statistical overviews of each industry by individual country

• Market trends are demonstrated with historical market size data, key companies, segmentation, distribution and forecasts

OxResearch

ProQuest Central

ProQuest is only library vendor offering OxResearch

• 146 industry topics from over 250 countries and regions

• Powerful multi-disciplinary database for students, professors, and administrators to research and analyze the impact of probable developments on today's business climate

• Each article follows a standard format:– Description of the event – Significance – In depth analysis of the event including any

relevant charts – Conclusion

EIU Viewswire

ProQuest Central

• Published by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)

• ViewsWire highlights important economic, political and market developments around the world and provides concise analytical briefings on their implications for business

• Full text provided in HTML format– Country intelligence– News analysis– Forecasts

SSRN Working Papers

ProQuest Central

• 25,000 scholarly working papers from Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

• Working papers provide cutting edge information in business trends months or years before they appear in the final publication

• Working papers often provide more information than the final edited article

ProQuest is the only library vendor offering working papers from SSRN

Full Text Dissertations

ProQuest Central

• Nearly 30,000 full text dissertations

• Major subject areas are included:• Business• Psychology• Physical Therapy• Education• ..and more!

• 2008 Product Growth– 600+ titles added

• >90% are full text & All major subject categories represented• 250 international titles from 24 countries.• 64 new FT newspapers. 50 international (19 countries) plus 9 NY Times publications• 13 new American Bar Association titles. • 74 new Business titles. Technology & Business Journal, Global Outlook• 45 new Health Care & Wellness titles. Including nursing, pediatrics, men’s health.• 17 new Computing titles. Computer Business Week, Computer Technology Journal, Computer

Weekly News, Enterprise Networks & Servers, Network World.

– Non-Serial Product Additions• CultureVision. Medical-oriented reports on 30 ethnicities & 11 religions• Medical Evidence Matters. Link to the interface for ProQuest Central customers• SSRN Working Papers 25K research papers

Constant updates performed

The ProQuest Search Widget• Librarians and faculty members can put ProQuest where

their users are• Increase visibility and usage of licensed resources• Customize the following:

– Databases searched– Pre-populated search terms– Box color

Platform Enhancements

ProQuest Search Widget

http://widgets.proquest.com

Fine tune your search using various tools available

Sample search: Bulgaria

RSS Feeds/Alerts• Users will be able to create

RSS feeds for:– Any search string– Any publication

• Won’t require creating an account to set up

• Release date: April 26, 2008

Further enhancements: RSS Feeds

RSS Feeds/Alerts• Users will be able to create RSS feeds for:

• Any search string• Any publication

• Won’t require creating an account to set up

RSS Feeds/AlertsAll the information the user needs gets displayed in a pop-up window

ProQuest was the first company to introduce RSS feed – now we have

further enhanced them

Reference Linking

Reference LinkingGreat resource to inform students how many times an article has been cited, by whom and also shared references

Graphics

Indexing and features of document view

Dissertations

Reports

Data: Population, GDP, Exchange Rate, Historical Averages

Publications Tab

My Research Tab

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