1. ProQuest Presentation Phu Quoc, Vietnam September 2012

2. Agenda  Introduction  ProQuest Central - Updates  ProQuest Dissertations & Theses  Ebooks  Questions

3. PQ Central. Largest and most diverse resource available today  Over 20,000 periodical titles across 160 subjects  Over 100,000 total titles  Includes full dissertations in business and health sciences  Includes scholarly working papers, pre-published  Includes vast numbers of up-to- date market & industry reports  34% growth over last 2 years  More content licensed & loaded over the past two years than any other vendor.

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6. Updates in ProQuest Central subject areas  Over 160 subjects are covered in ProQuest Central  Broad subject areas, which are reflected in the user interface design are:  Business  Science & Technology  Health & Medical  Social Sciences & Humanities  News

7. Updates. Business content Top publishers in the field 50% growth in scholarly business full text over past 2 years Highly coveted by businesses, data-driven

8. ProQuest and The Economist “One of the most read journals in the world” Country Data Reports Country Forecast Reports & Country Finance Reports World Commodity Reports EIU ViewsWire ABI Complete Also includes in ABI Complete:

9. ABI Complete’s value: Market Reports  Delivers hard-to-get full text financial information on more than 80 emerging markets, including comprehensive Asian markets  “Phenomenal” …. “a critical tool for businesses operating in these markets” Market intelligence reports across all chemical and energy industries Updated reports, industry trends, prices and data, serving over 800 global companies “Timely, accurate and compelling business intelligence”

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12. ABI’s unique value: Market/Industry Reports ♦ Deep-indexing of charts, tables, figures, illustrations for fast analysis

13. Natural Sciences and Technology Over 800 science & technology active, full-text journals with impact factors 17+ new Nature Publishing titles added this year

14. Health and Medical Sciences

15. ProQuest Central. Recognition and Value. ProQuest Central, “Best Online General Reference Service” The Charleston Advisor, January 2012 Content User Interface

16. 16 ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text 1.4 million PDF files 2.9 million citations

17. 17 Credentials: Content and Customer Credentials All top ranking USA research universities – as defined by the Carnegie Foundation - work with UMI Authors from more than 1,700 graduate schools and universities the world over 700 active university partners publish with us 40% of PhDs from the world’s top universities are published in PQDT More than 3,000 libraries around the world subscribe to PQDT - including most of the world’s leading universities

18. 18 Full Text: Access over one million dissertations in full text  Access to over 1.4 million PDF dissertations on the ProQuest platform  Most dissertations from 1997 are in Full Text  Did you know…? ProQuest is the world’s largest publisher of ISBNs

19. 19 Multi-Media: Innovative multi-media content EXAMPLE VIDEO FROM : A facial model and animation techniques for animated speech by King, Scott Alan, Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2001, 275 pages; AAT 3021416 Access key supporting materials including audio, code script, data, images, PDFs, presentations, spreadsheets and text Includes all files under 10 GB that have ever been submitted with dissertations and theses. (To date, 3,600+ works in PQDT have multimedia files) Enhances the scholarly record and ensures graduate schools and students future access to this valuable research

20. Using PQDT: How is PQDT used? Undergrads – a great resource, peer reviewed reliable content on a vast array of subjects Graduate Students looking for theses subjects – discover if the work you were considering creating has already been written Serious researchers – instant access to alternative insights and in-depth scholarly works. Bibliographies cover a comprehensive review of the existing literature in that discipline

21. 21 Available now! Searchable full text for new dissertations Search full text of dissertations and theses from 2008 forward, cover-to-cover, across every discipline – including Roman script foreign-language works

22. ebooks  Cost sharing Model  Pick and choose titles  Perpetual purchase  Example- Rajabhat Consortium in Thailand

23. Thank You!