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• Introducing news from ProQuest

• Summary about ProQuest in Romania

• Avenues for cooperation

• Journals

• Dissertations - presentation by Meinhard Kettler

• Short training

Overview for today

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Curate. Simplify. Connect.

Better research. Better learning.

Better insights.

ProQuest enables people to change their world.

News

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Visual History Archive

ProQuest is proud to partner with the USC Shoah Foundation to offer the Visual History Archive, a fully streaming video collection of nearly 54,000 primary-source testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity.

• The largest archive of its kind

• Complete first-person histories

• 64,000 indexing terms, 1.8 million names and

712,000 images

• Content retrieval by whole testimonies or

segments to the minute

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Alexander Street, a ProQuest CompanyAcademic Video Online

The world’s largest, most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries

• 62,000 titles (17,000 exclusive to

Alexander Street)

Subject areas:

• Anthropology

• Counseling & Therapy

• Art, Fashion & Design

• Business & Economics

• Diversity Studies

• Documentary Film

• Feature Film

• Education

• History

• Music & Dance

• News & Current Events

• Theatre & Drama

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Alexander Street, a ProQuest CompanyMultimedia Collections give students and patrons new avenues of discovery in a range of topics.

Now available:

• Border and Migration Studies Online

• Women and Social Movements in Modern

Empires since 1820

• Anthropological Fieldwork Online

• Ethnographic Video Online, Volume IV:

Festivals and Archives

• Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan

Archive

• Diagnosing Mental Disorders: DSM-5®

and ICD-10

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Historical CollectionsIn-demand primary source material is crisply digitized from cover to cover.

Education Magazine Archive: 20+ publications offer

insights into educational history, theory and perspectives

Religious Magazine Archive: key resources supporting

religion history, social history, sociology and anthropology.

Women’s Magazine Archive, Part 2: the archives of leading

consumer publications, including trailblazers such as

Cosmopolitan, Town & Country and Woman’s Day.

Vogue Italia: the least commercial and most artistic edition

of the Vogue franchise

New York Times, Washington Post, Guardain

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Digital National Security Archives (DNSA) is a vast trove of important declassified U.S. government documents, digitized and curated in more than 40 topic-based collections.

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Early European BooksExploring content is an interactive, immersive

experience with the use of scatter maps powered by

advanced metadata, allowing researchers to make

connections within materials that might have

otherwise gone unrealized – helping to expand,

validate, and clarify research results.

• Early European Books 10: drawn from the Philosophy,

History and Human Science department of the National

Library of France (BnF)

• Early European Books 11: Drawing on books from the

KBNL (The Hague) and the Wellcome Library (London),

this collection will cover Religion and Religious thought

from Northern Europe as part of the anniversary of

Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses of 1517 which

heralded the Protestant Reformation

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Ebooks – Ebook Central Platform

Have Print and get it in electronic 50 % off

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Ex Libris, a ProQuest CompanyThe ProQuest acquisition of Ex Libris aligns print and digital resources, pioneering discovery and library management solutions, and the deep content relationships that underlie our leading metadata repositories.

Now available:

• Alma Digital, a platform that manages electronic, print

and digital; and consolidates acquisition, purchasing and

digitization

• The Summon® Service, which increases the library’s

value by making its collection more discoverable

• Primo, which delivers scholarly resources and rich

metadata via a single search interface

• Leganto, powered by SIPX, which helps universities

deliver affordable course materials to students

• campusM, a mobile solution that connects students to

the library, courses, professors and campus activities

integration with Alma

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Reference & Citation Management

RefWorks is a premier reference

management service that supports

students, faculty and libraries.

Comprehensive features include:

• Support for add-ins like Google Docs,

Dropbox Integration, Office365, Write-N-

Cite, Android and iOS

• 4,000 citation styles and an integrated

citation manager

• No synching required! Supports PDF,

Word, and Excel from one easy location

• And more to come in 2017

ProQuest in Romania

ProQuest in Romania

Content available in the partnership with e-nformation and ANELIS Plus Consortium:

• ProQuest Central

• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

• Alexander Street videos

Possible cooperation:

- uploading dissertations: etdadmin.com

- Indexing journals:

- Presently there are over 240 journals indexed from Romania Romanian titles in PQ17

- Send title, ISSN, publisher’s and publisher contact person’s contact details to ProQuest (through

e-nformation and ANELIS Plus consortium)

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ProQuest CentralThe largest multidisciplinary research

database available, ProQuest Central adds

new content:

• 18,000+ periodical titles in ongoing full text including

BMJ and Nature Publishing Group

• Over 400 newspapers in ongoing full text including

Australian Financial Review and The Daily Express

• Over 450,000 working papers including metadata and

links to Research Papers in Economics

• 44 million company records from Experian

• Financial service industry reports and 79 country

reports from Economist Intelligence Unit

• And more!

ProQuest Central

• Title list

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SciMago

International Newsstream Criminal Justice Database

Canadian Newsstream Library Science Database

US Newsstream Linguistics Database

ABI/INFORM Collection Political Science Database

Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection Religion Database

Asian & European Business Collection Social Science

Business Market Research Collection Sociology Database

Health & Medical Collection Research Library

Family Health Database Career & Technical Education Database

Health Management Database Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database

Nursing & Allied Health Database Australia & New Zealand Database

Psychology Database Continental Europe Database

Public Health Database East & South East Asia Database

Biology Database East Europe & Central Europe Database

Computing Database Latin America & Iberian Database

Military Database Middle East & Africa Database

Science Database Turkey Database

Telecomunications Database UK & Ireland Database

Arts & Humanities Database India Database

News Business Health Research SciTech The Arts Social Science Interdisciplinary

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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global

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Cit/Abstract Any FT Format

Our public catalogue

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Ebooks – subscriptions

Subscriptions to:

• 10 subject collections individually all together – Academic Complete

• University Press – 24 000 titles from renown university presses

• Reference Collection – over 500 handbooks, dictionaries, manuals etc

Functions:

Site access for all ebooks

Cost effective collection

Ebooks – Perpetual access

Perpetual access:

• Title by title purchase

• One investment

• No minimum order

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For e-books from over 70 publishers

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