ProQuest Central

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ProQuest Central
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Product Overview

• Largest aggregated full-text database in the
  market today
• 11,250 titles (8,400 in full text), 479 Full
  text newspapers
• Non-periodical content
• 252 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 (Hoovers)
• 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
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Expanding Your ProQuest Offering

• ProQuest Central includes the following ProQuest
  databases

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• Subject Highlights Business

• 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

• Top Titles Include
• Wall Street Journal
• The Economist
• Business Week
• Journal of American Academy of Business
• Journal of Business Ethics
• Fortune
• Strategic Finance

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• Subject Highlights Health

• 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

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• Subject Highlights Technology

• 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

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• Subject Highlights General Reference

• Top Titles Include
• Library Journal
• Time
• Newsweek
• Choice
• Foreign Affairs
• The Booklist
• MacLeans
• 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!

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• Current Newspapers

• Full text newspapers are often the most requested
  items in aggregated offerings from vendors
• Over 400 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!
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ProQuest Central Non-Periodical Content
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• Snapshots Series

• 3,000 Industries and Regions
• More than 8,800 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

ProQuest is Exclusive Provider of Snapshots to
Library Market
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• Hoovers Company Records

• 44,000 Company Records
• Users can integrate business information from one
  of the worlds 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 Hoovers
  Records

ProQuest is only library vendor offering Hoovers
Company Records
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• SSRN Working Papers

• 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
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• OxResearch

• 146 industry topics from over 252 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

ProQuest is only library vendor offering
OxResearch
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• Full Text Dissertations

• Nearly 30,000 full text dissertations
• Major subject areas are included
• Business
• Psychology
• Physical Therapy
• Education
• and more

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Contact Information

• Ms. Nicola Giles
• Customer Education Training Specialist
• ProQuest
• nicola.giles_at_proquest.com
• www.proquest.com
• www.csa.com

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