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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 CompleteAccounting & TaxBanking Information SourceAsian Business & ReferenceResearch LibraryEducation Journals Canadian Business & Current Affairs ProQuest Newsstand Health and Medical Health and Medical CompletePharmaceutical News IndexProQuest NursingPsychology Journals Science & Technology ProQuest ComputingCareer & TechnologyProQuest 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 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 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 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 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 Journal and 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

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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/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/Alerts All the information the user needs gets displayed in a pop-up window RSS Feeds/Alerts All 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 Great resource to inform students how many times an article has been cited, by whom and also shared references Reference Linking Great resource to inform students how many times an article has been cited, by whom and also shared references

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