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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
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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
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• 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!
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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
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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
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• 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
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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:
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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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