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ProQuest and Scribd Partner on Dissertations and Theses Marketpla...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Joint effort will expose scholarly graduate work to broader audience online.

Scribd to publish dissertations and theses

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:17:27 GMT

Scribd has teamed up with ProQuestUMI, a publisher of dissertations and theses, to start selling over 14,000 works, form over 14 universities, in its Scribd

Scribd and ProQuest Partnership Creates On-Demand Access to Acade...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:00:46 GMT

Scribd, the world's largest social publishing company, and ProQuest, the world's largest publisher of academic dissertations and theses, today announced an agreement to make selected graduate dissertations and theses available for purchase on Scribd (www.scribd.com/ProQuestUMI). The agreement will

ProQuest eyes strategic expansion in East Asia - Information Worl...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:34:00 GMT

Information resources and technologies specialist ProQuest is planning to expand its presence in East Asia with a view to capitalise on the rapidly growing research output and information activity in this region

ProQuest Releases Digitized Archive of the Detroit Free Press (18...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:30:37 GMT

The Detroit Free Press joins many other newspapers as part of ProQuest Historical Newspapers. Overall, the collection contains more than 25 million pages dating back to 1764. From the News Release:

EcontentMag.com: ProQuest Unveils Historical Detroit Archive

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

ProQuest Historical Newspapers is releasing the archives of the Detroit Free Press from the years 1831-1922, a period of time that includes such august events as the Civil War, the introduction of the Ford Model T, and the bulk of Ty Cobb's career with the Detroit Tigers.

Stanford will accept digital dissertations starting in November

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT

Put away your checkbook. Don't bother buying reams of acid-free paper. Just hit the "submit" button to digitally upload dissertations at Stanford under a new program that begins in November.

Detroit Free Press Names ProQuest a Top Workplace

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:20:00 GMT

Detroit Free Press Names ProQuest a Top Workplace. Survey of information company's employees reveals it's a great place to work.

ProQuest Public Health

Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:10:31 GMT

"ProQuest Public Health is a new and unique database; designed to be the ideal starting point for public health information and research. It delivers core public health literature with centralized access to over 800

ProQuest Launches New Public Health Resource

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:21:47 GMT

ProQuest (www.proquest.com) has launched a new resource, ProQuest Public Health, designed to be an ideal starting point for public health information and research. ProQuest Public Health covers a wide range of disciplines, from biological sciences and social sciences to health economics, and brings

Widget Alert: ProQuest K12

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:09:32 GMT

Description: A discussion of information fluency, teaching, and learning in the 21st century.

ProQuest Ranks 27th in the 2009 InformationWeek 500

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:09:37 GMT

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept 22, 2009 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Ann Arbor-based ProQuest has ranked 27th on the 2009 InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation's most innovative users of business technology.

ProQuest's All-New Platform Will Redefine Search Experience

Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:26:00 GMT

/PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest is leveraging its extensive research of end-users, librarians and faculty search behaviors to drive the creation of an all-new platform that will redefine the search experience for library users around the world.

INFORMATION TODAY: Where Have All the Archives Gone?

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:40:28 GMT

Major cities face existence without a daily newspaper. Even papers that stay in operation may only do so by making severe cuts in expenditures and staffing. If you don’t believe me, ask a news librarian, if you can find one still working.

Aerovance inhales $38M for asthma drugs

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:38:07 GMT

Aerovance, developer of asthma medications, just brought in $38 million in a post-recapitalized third round of funding to push its ...

Publishing People: Week of 4/6/09

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT

John Mackey has been named Barnes & Noble national accounts manager at Oxford University Press. Mackey was most recently international territory manager at Baker & Taylor; before that, he handled the southern territories for Dearborn/Kaplan Publishing.

Serials Solutions Implements the AquaBrowser Unified Discovery In...

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:19:22 GMT

(March 30, 2009). Serials Solutions announced that the Gelman Library System at George Washington University has chosen the AquaBrowser Unified Discovery Interface to provide patrons with enhanced access to the library's entire collection.

P&G Adjusts Sustainability Goals for Europe

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT

Procter & Gamble wants to generate $50 billion in sales of environmentally friendly products.

Introducing Summon

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:51:29 GMT

Everything has been leading to thisIntroducing Summon to do the things Joan Lippincott talked aboutwith your collections today being predominantly digital (look at your statistics), its more difficult than ever to connect students to your resourcesPQ looked very

NovaDel Closes on $2,525,000 of Financing with ProQuest Investmen...

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:30:00 GMT

NovaDel Closes on $2,525,000 of Financing with ProQuest Investments LLC. - FLEMINGTON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NovaDel Pharma Inc. (AMEX: NVD - News) announced today that on October 17, 2008, it closed on the remaining $2,525,000 (the “Subsequent Closing”) of its previously announced private

ProQuest and Google Strike Deal To Digitize Newspaper Pages

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:10:51 GMT

oooh, now this is interesting. We already have http://news.google.com Will this be http://newspapers.google.com? google, proquest, newspapers...

The Lede: Story Behind United Stock Plunge

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:37:29 GMT

Humans and software compounded each others' errors in an episode where a six-year-old article about United Airlines suddenly reappeared as fresh news and sent its stock plunging.

Set up Your ProQuest Search "Alert"

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:00:13 GMT

After you have typed in your keywords in one of the ProQuest databases (for example, CBCA Education or ProQuest Education Journals) and you have displayed some of the documents you will notice an option along the top of the screen...

Google to Expand Online Newspaper Archive

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 21:42:00 GMT

Mountain View,Calif. - Google (NASD: GOOG) has announcedplans to expand the newspaper content available via its Google News Archive service,and is offering to digitize the archives of any interested

Google to Digitize ProQuest Newspapers

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:29:25 GMT

As an extension of its digitization project begun in 2006 with the New York Times and the Washington Post, Google announced yesterday that a number of publishers will give Google access to their historical newspaper content. Notably, ProQuest will give Google access to content from among the