Support : eNewsletters : ProQuest IQ : Issue 2, 2010

This Business e-Newsletter is designed to keep you on top of new and upcoming announcements for the ProQuest business product line, and introduce you to some of the complementary resources on Dialog.

20% Discount available on new subscriptions to Harvard Business Review Full Text with Images on Dialog

Published by Harvard Business School Publishing, Harvard Business Review^® encompasses the complete range of strategic management subjects of interest to managers and researchers, including accounting, automation, business ethics, industry analysis, planning and trade. With the launch of Harvard Business Review^® Full Text with Images on Dialog (File 106), a bridge has been built between Harvard Business Review abstracts and indexing in ProQuest products to the full-text content on Dialog. Researchers with a subscription to the full-text content on Dialog can now link seamlessly from abstracts retrieved in Harvard Business Review on ProQuest databases such as ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Complete, ProQuest Banking Information Source, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Research Library and ProQuest Health Management to the full text in the new Dialog file.

A great value
With a subscription to the full-text collection on Dialog, ProQuest corporate customers will be linked to reprints from the Harvard Business Review from 2005 forward, including one case study per issue. Images such as charts, graphs and photos are provided for many records. HBR subscribers can also search using the Dialog system for records prior to 2005, as Dialog File 106 offers a deep archive including reprints from the Harvard Business Review from 1994 forward, plus select articles from 1956 to1994.

20% discount details
Through April 1, 2010, receive a 20% discount on new Dialog subscriptions to Harvard Business Review Full Text with Images (File 106). Contact your Dialog account manager for more information or call the Knowledge Center at 1-800-334-2564 or request information.

ProQuest wins top honors from the Software & Information Industry Association

ProQuest took top honors for ProQuest Central at the CODiE Award ceremony in New York January 26, 2010. Highly competitive and much coveted industry prizes, CODiEs are presented annually by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) and are designed to recognize exceptionally newsworthy products and services. ProQuest Central received the CODiE for the Best Online General Reference Service.

ProQuest Central was launched in 2008 and is the world's largest aggregated full-text database. It provides integrated access to millions of full-text articles from scholarly journals, newspapers and dissertations, as well as business and market reports from around the world. With information on more than 160 topics, it is a groundbreaking resource for libraries of all types.

"ProQuest's goal is to consistently innovate and make all kinds of research easier, more productive and more accurate," said Marty Kahn, ProQuest CEO. "To have a panel of our industry peers recognize ProQuest Central as the best of the year – especially given the quality of the other finalists – is wonderful affirmation of our progress toward that goal."

The CODiE Awards are the industry's only peer-reviewed awards program, which provides member companies with a unique opportunity to earn praise from their competitors. Now in its twenty-fourth year, the CODiE Awards program has raised the standard for excellence and serves as prestigious representation of outstanding achievement and vision in the software and information industry.

ProQuest, an active member of SIIA, has received seven CODiE Awards since 1986, making it one of the most honored companies serving the library community. The 2010 awards were presented in conjunction with the SIIA Information Industry Summit January 26 in New York City.

ProQuest and Dialog support the corporate librarian

Need help promoting your corporate library to your clients and patrons? ProQuest and Dialog offer support and many resources you can download and use to drive home insight on the value of what you do for your organization. ProQuest presents a marketing toolkit called "The Visible Corporate Library". Included is a nine-page brochure containing ideas for highlighting the significance of your information center, and ways your services play a key role in ensuring that business strategy and decision-making is supported by accurate, relevant information sources. You'll also find a handout with talking points on the worth of your library's resources over the "wild Web," a customizable poster, a sample reference interview, user survey questions and more.

Dialog delivers Quantum², a librarian's leadership-development program provided free-of-charge. The program is designed to help information professionals expand their services and improve the flow of information within their organizations. You'll find a calendar of live Web Workshops, Podcasts called Quantum Conversations, e-briefs, such as "The ROI of Information," and Quantum² Highlights, a bimonthly e-newsletter containing articles and tips about managing and marketing a corporate library. Sign up for Quantum² Highlights today.

Medical Evidence Matters is included with your ProQuest Central subscription

Medical Evidence Matters is an evidence-based medicine search tool that draws information from hundreds of peer-reviewed journals to help users choose the best therapy options for patients with a confirmed diagnosis. It is the only tool that can help users quickly find and analyze highly relevant, published, and peer-reviewed evidence to answer individual patient-oriented questions. Results are organized into summary graphs and tables – enabling users to assess the evidence and determine the best form of treatment.

Add Medical Evidence Matters to your search tools:

• To identify research that is specifically relevant to specific patients – based on the nature of their conditions.
• To assess the level of evidence of all records included
• To easily assess the type and quality of clinical trials
• To quickly review the original data from relevant research

Weldasearch and PIRA available on Dialog

At the end of December 2009, CSA removed Weldasearch^® and PIRA (Packaging, Paper, Printing and Publishing, Imaging and Nonwovens Abstracts) from its content collections, including Illumina. Researchers in aerospace, automotive, electronics and shipbuilding industries, as well as pulp and paper, packaging, printing, publishing and nonwovens, can find this data on Dialog (Files 25 and 248, respectively).

Weldasearch covers every aspect of welding and allied processes, including design, materials science, fatigue and fracture, market statistics, commercial applications and industry news. Chief sources for Weldasearch are journals, conference proceedings, patents, standards, books, reports, theses (dissertations) and patents.

PIRA focuses both on scientific and global business aspects of the paper, packaging, printing, imaging and nonwovens industries. It covers technical questions, market statistics, company profiles, production processes, new products and environmental issues in-depth with abstracts from books and monographs, conferences and meetings, journals, standards, newspapers, and the records on imaging may contain patent information.

Discover the all-new ProQuest platform

Coming in 2010, ProQuest, CSA Illumina, and selected Chadwyck-Healey products will be available on the new platform at launch, and all ProQuest products will migrate to the new platform over time. Watch for announcements at the dedicated Website and sign up here to receive updates on the new ProQuest platform.

ABI/INFORM^® business searching tip: what is the difference between a business case and a case study?

A business case is a detailed account of a real-life business situation describing the dilemma of "the protagonist" — a real person with a real job who is confronted with a real problem. Business cases are presented to students in business schools as a teaching methodology.

The document type "Business Case" is assigned to publications that regularly publish business cases, including journals such as the Harvard Business Review and case collections.

A Case Study documents how a process, procedure or project has been done. These articles are not about a particular company or organization, and even if one is mentioned, that is not the focus.

Examples:

• Strategy & Leadership: "This paper offers a retrospective case study using Bruner's risk assessment framework..."
• International Journal of Managing Projects in Business: "This paper ... reports on a case study conducted in the defense contracting sector in the USA."
• Journal of Business Ethics: "...a medium-sized Austrian company in the food producing industry has been identified for an exploratory case study analysis to test the applicability of this theoretical framework ..."

ProQuest indexes "Case Study" as document type when the article clearly says it is presenting a case study.

Enhance your business searching skills

Attend ProQuest business courses including Webinars on ABI/INFORM and ProQuest Accounting and Tax. Click here for a list of classes.

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