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1. ProQuest Database

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Table of contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS................................................................. 0
ABSTRACT................................................................................... 2
INTRODUCTION ......................................................................... 2
HISTORY..................................................................................... 3
COVERAGE.................................................................................. 4
BUSINESS ....................................................................................5
ARCHIVED NEWSPAPERS ......................................................... 6
INTERFACE..................................................................................7
SEARCHING.................................................................................7
BASIC SEARCH................................................................................................. 7
ADVANCE SEARCH........................................................................................... 8
COMMON LINE SEARCH.................................................................................... 8
PUBLICATION SEARCH..................................................................................... 9
PRINTING, E-MAILING AND DOWNLOADING:........................10
PROQUEST STATISTICAL INSIGHT FEATURES.......................10
REFERENCES............................................................................. 11

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Abstract
ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and
technology company. ProQuest provides solutions, applications, and products for
libraries. Its resources and tools support research and learning, publishing and
dissemination, and the acquisition, management and discovery of library
collections.
From its founding as a producer of microfilm products and then as an electronic
publisher, the company has grown through acquisitions. Today, the company
provides tools for discovery and citation management and platforms that allow
library users to discover, manage, use and share research gained from authoritative
content. Total content, including dissertations, e-books, newspapers, periodicals,
historical collections, governmental and cultural archives and other aggregated
databases is estimated at over 125 billion digital pages. Content is accessed most
commonly through library Internet gateways. The current chief executive officer is
Kurt P. Sanford. ProQuest is part of Cambridge Information Group.
Introduction
The ProQuest platform makes hundreds of full text, abstract & index collections
accessible to researchers around the world. Content discovery is an integral part of
the ProQuest platform’s goal of driving better outcomes for subscribing
organizations and their users. An organization's proQuest content is discoverable
through Summon, OCLC World Cat, Ex Libris Primo Central, PubMed and
Google Scholar (when enabled). Plus, through the ebooks tab on the ProQuest
results page, researchers can cross-search their organization's ProQuest e-book
holdings (when available) alongside their ProQuest platform database content.

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In addition, researchers will benefit from robust information management and
workflow tools and functionality integrated into the platform, like the ability to cite
results in numerous citation styles, save as a PDF or other document formats, save
searches, and export documents to reference management tools like RefWorks.
History
Eugene Power, a 1930 M.B.A. graduate of the University of Michigan, founded the
company as University Microfilms in 1938, preserving works from the British
Museum on microfilm. By June 1938, Power worked in two rented rooms from a
downtown Ann Arbor funeral parlor, specializing in microphotography to preserve
library collections during World War II. This work mainly involved filming maps
and European newspapers so they could be shipped back and forth overseas more
ProQuest still publishes so many dissertations that it’s Dissertations and Theses
collection (formerly called Digital Dissertations) has been declared the official
U.S. off-site repository of the Library of Congress. The idea of universal adoption
of microfilm publication of doctoral dissertations was furthered considerably by
two articles researched and written by a then recent recipient of the doctorate in
History at Stanford University. Vaughn Davis Bornet seized on the idea and
published "Doctoral Dissertations and the Stream of Scholarship" and "Microfilm
Publication of Doctoral Dissertations." As the dissertations market grew, the
company expanded into filming newspapers and periodicals. The company's main
newspaper database is ProQuest News Stand. In the 1980s, UMI began producing
CD-ROMs that stored databases of periodicals abstracts and indexes. At a time
when modem connections were slow and expensive, it was more efficient to mail
database CD-ROMs regularly to subscribing libraries, who installed the discs on
dedicated PCs. The ProQuest brand name was first used for databases on CD-
ROM. An online service called ProQuest Direct was launched in 1995; its name
was later shortened to just ProQuest. The bibliographic databases are mainly sold
to schools, universities and libraries.
In 1998, the company announced the "Digital Vault Initiative", purported to
include 5.5 billion images digitized from UMI microfilm, including some of the
best existing copies of major newspapers dating back 100 to 150 years, and Early
English books dating back to the 15th century. While work continues to digitize

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the contents of the microfilm vault, ProQuest is already providing navigation of
125 billion digital pages, including nearly 20 million pages of newspaper content
dating from pre-Revolutionary War America. In 1999, first time produced full-text
CD-ROM databases. This acquisition gave proQuest ownership of a 100+ person
publishing operation based in Cambridge, England and became the basis for a
substantial overseas expansion. In 2004, ProQuest Information and Learning
acquired Seattle start-up Serials Solutions, a venture providing access management
and search services for content hosted by other companies. In 2007, ProQuest
Information and Learning was merged with CSA to form ProQuest CSA. Later that
year it was renamed ProQuest LLC. In 2008, ProQuest LLC acquired complete
ownership of RefWorks, a web-based citation manager of which it had been part
owner since 2001 and ProQuest acquired Dialog, a major online database firm,
from Thomson Reuters.
In 2010, ProQuest acquired two properties from LexisNexis, Congressional
Information Service (CIS) and University Publications of America (UPA). CIS
produced one of the world's most exhaustive online collections of legislative
content and highly respected statistical works, while UPA included deep historical
content sets. The acquisition included digital products and an expansive microfilm
vault that would leverage ProQuest's strength in conversion from film to searchable
electronic formats. In 2011, ProQuest acquired Ebrary, an online digital library of
full texts of over 170,000 scholarly eBooks. In 2013, ProQuest acquired EBook
Library (EBL), with plans to combine the strongest features of ebrary and EBL
into a single, comprehensive e-book platform. In 2014, ProQuest acquired Pi2
Solutions, a privately owned company specializing in Product Literature Database
(PLD) systems for the biopharmaceutical industry. In October 2015, ProQuest
acquired Ex Libris. The new entity will be known as "Ex Libris, a ProQuest
Company".
Coverage
ProQuest was founded as a microfilm publisher. It began publishing doctoral
dissertations in 1939, and has published more than 3 million searchable
dissertations and theses, and is designated as an offsite digital archive for the
United States Library of Congress. The company's scholarly content includes

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dissertations and theses, primary source material, e-books, scholarly journals,
historical and current newspapers and periodicals, data sources, and other content
of interest to researchers. These are made available through a variety of Web-based
interfaces. A recent offering, ProQuest Video Preservation and Discovery Service,
allows libraries to preserve and provide access to their proprietary audio and video
collections.
ProQuest is a key partner for content holders of all types, preserving and enabling
access to their rich and varied information. Those partnerships have built a
growing content collection that now encompasses 90,000 authoritative sources, 6
billion digital pages and spans six centuries. It includes the world’s largest
collection of dissertations and theses; 20 million pages and three centuries of
global, national, regional and specialty newspapers; more than 450,000 ebooks;
rich aggregated collections of the world’s most important scholarly journals and
periodicals; and unique vaults of digitized historical collections from great libraries
and museums, as well as organizations as varied as the Royal Archives, the
Associated Press and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People.
It categorized into ProQuest Platform, The Arts, Business, Discovery Services, E-
books, Genealogy, General Research, Government Information, Health &
Medicine, History, K-12/Student Resources, Literature, News & Newspapers,
Research Management, SIPX - Digital Course Materials, Science & Technology,
Social Sciences
Business
ProQuest LLC also operates as businesses under the following names:
• Bowker provides bibliographic information management solutions to
publishers, libraries and booksellers, and is the ISBN Agency for the United States.
• Dialog is an online information service with more than 1.4 billion unique
records curated for corporate, business and government researchers, with a focus
on pharmaceutical, engineering and patent research.

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• EBL (EBook Library), an e-book aggregator with a catalog of titles from
academic publishers, serves academic, corporate and research libraries while
supporting emerging collection development models such as patron-driven
acquisition.
• Ebrary offers access to e-book collections, by subscription or a perpetual
archive model, in subject packages tailored for academic, corporate, government,
public and high school libraries.
• Serials Solutions delivers discovery and e-resource access and management
services (ERAMS), using a Software-as-a-Service model.
Archived Newspapers
ProQuest have 43 archived newspapers from 1857- 1990.
i.e.
The American Hebrew & Jewish Messenger (1857–1922), The American Israelite
(1854–2000), The Arizona Republic (1890–1922), Atlanta Daily World (1931–
2003), Atlanta Journal-Constitution (1868–1945), The Baltimore Afro-American
(1893–1988), The Baltimore Sun (1837–1988), The Boston Globe (1872–1982),
Chicago Defender (1910–1975), Chicago Tribune (1849–1990), Christian Science
Monitor (1908–2000), The Cincinnati Enquirer (1841–1922), Cleveland Call &
Post (1934–1991), Detroit Free Press (1831–1922), The Globe and Mail (1844–
2010), The Guardian (1821–2003) and The Observer (1791–2003),Hartford
Courant (1764–1988), Indianapolis Star (1903–1922), Irish Times (1859–2012)
and The Weekly Irish Times (1876–1958), Jerusalem Post (1932–1988), The
Jewish Advocate (1905–1990), Jewish Exponent (1887–1990), Los Angeles
Sentinel (1934–2005), Los Angeles Times (1881–1990), The Louisville Courier-
Journal (1830–1922), Minneapolis Tribune (1867–1922), The Nashville
Tennessean (1812–1922), Newsday (1940–1985), New York Amsterdam News
(1922–1993), The New York Times (1851–2010), New York Tribune (1841–
1962), The Norfolk Journal & Guide (1921–2003), The Philadelphia Tribune
(1912–2001), The Washington Post (1877–1997), Chinese Newspapers Collection
(1832–1953)

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Interface
Searching
There are three types of searching
Basic search
Search across all proQuest platform databases with the Basic Search.

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Advance search
Advance search has limited the result through the different methods, i.e. Boolean,
proximity, and field codes are supported. The default is to search for ALL terms
entered. Separate terms with OR to find any of the terms. To search for an exact
phrase, use "quotation marks" around your search.
Common line search
Click on Add search fields to display the Operators and Search fields’ pull-down
menus to add Boolean operators, proximity operators, and the greater than, less
than, or equal to symbols to your search. These can also be entered in manually
without selecting them from the pull-down menu. For additional information on
how to use the operators when putting together a search, please see the main
Search Tips section of this guide. For a list of common ProQuest fields and a
description of each field, please see the Searchable Fields section of this guide.

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Publication search
To get only full text results, check the box next to Full text just below Search
options

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Printing, E-mailing and Downloading:
After selecting citations (e.g. from checked boxes or Clipboard), identify a format
(click on Summary for additional formats) and print from the browser.
Alternatively, select from the Send to menu (e.g. Citation Manager creates a file in
the MEDLINE format for download into citation management software).
ProQuest Statistical Insight Features
ProQuest Statistical Insight includes the following features:
 A one-search solution: Users are be able to search all of the content --
statistical publications from the three main products, tables, and Datasets –
from the same form, with a single search.
 Facetedsearch results: Data is filtered by data breakdowns (by age, by sex,
etc.), issuing source, geographic area, subject (using the existing taxonomy),
data date, and the presence of full text (spreadsheets, PDF documents, GIF
table images, and Datasets).
 Relevance ranking: Search results are ranked based on careful weighting of
the XML content -- occurrences of search terms in titles, indexing notations
of content, and the first paragraph of the abstract is given the most weight.
 Unrestricted search size: There are no restrictions on the size of a search.
Faceted results helping users to drill into and narrow down results.
 Datasets Integration: A ProQuest Statistical Insight basic search covers all
statistical modules; that is, you do one search of publication abstracts, table
metadata, and datasets metadata (names of indicators and datasets, and the
citation records). There are cross-references between statistical documents
abstracted in ASI, IIS, and SRI and the matching source data presented in
Datasets, and integrated searching – all are retrievable in the same search
set.
 User Accounts: Users are able to create an account so the system can recall
and display their search history, and retrieve a particular document, table, or
dataset. Users are not required to create an account to use the product; this is
an optional enhancement available to help more advanced and frequent
users.

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 Prior Editions: This feature provides a global view of a serial publication.
Users can call up a list of all publications covered since the 1970s, then link
to the abstracts. At the parent abstract level, the list includes all the reports in
a series and all the periodical articles and features we have ever covered.
 Batch Export Options: This feature allows users to export the items they
have checked in the Search Results list. They can print formatted
bibliographic citations (like APA format, for now), print an abbreviated
abstract or the whole abstract, email up to 20 items, or export to EndNote or
RefWorks. The email page will provide live links to the abstracts and full
texts.
 Frequent updates: New data is loaded on a weekly basis.
 Campus-wide access via IP authentication.
 24/7, toll-free customer support
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publishing", Media Authorship (edited by Cynthia Chirs, David A. Gerstner). Routledge,
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18. "Bowker - Products & Services", retrieved May 21, 2014.
19. Dialog | Cambridge Information Group, retrieved May 22, 2014
20. Dialog, LLC home page retrieved May 22, 2014
21. "ProQuest completes acquisition of EBL", retrieved May 22, 2014

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22. "EBL Unveils the New LibCentral", retrieved May 22, 2014
23. "ebrary | Pre-Packaged Products", retrieved May 22, 2014