Support : eNewsletters : ProQuest IQ : Issue 4, 2010

JULY 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.

It's coming soon: the all-new ProQuest platform

With a single, easy-to-learn interface, searchers will have simplified access to the broad range of authoritative resources, content and services from ProQuest. One of the largest initiatives in the history of ProQuest, the new platform will include cross-search capabilities with customizable subject-based views bringing context to the content of your users. It will allow users to personalize their account settings and harness the power of the new search engine to surface more relevant results with fewer clicks. Databases in the initial launch will include all of the exceptional resources currently on the ProQuest and Illumina platforms. Click here to see how the new platform will work. Sign up to receive updates about the launch of the new ProQuest platform.

ProQuest adds new business content

ProQuest constantly builds on its key coverage of important, relevant and highly-sought topics in business information today, including banking, real estate, international business, business law and more. Publishers include Springer Science & Business Media, Croatian Institute for Quality, Transilvania University of Brasov, AsiaNet-Pakistan Ltd., Scientific Research Publishing, International Islamic University of Malaysia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation and University of Zagreb. New titles include Business Excellence (Croatian Institute for Quality), The Financial Daily (Karachi) (AsiaNet-Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd.) and Lateline Business (Australian Broadcasting Corporation). Two titles have changed: OpRisk & Compliance is now Operational Risk & Regulation (Incisive Media PLC) and World Trade's new name is World Trade, WT 100 (BNP Media).

Consult ProQuest's Title List System for content information by product.

Spotlight on Dissertations in ABI/INFORM and Accounting & Tax

The number of business-related dissertations continues to grow in these resources:

• ABI/INFORM now features 30,000 plus, 50% of which are from outside of the U.S.
• Accounting & Tax has over 1,900 dissertations not available in ABI/INFORM.

ProQuest Central offers more than 150 million full-text records in some 160 subjects

Winner of the 2010 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE Award for Best Online Reference Service, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated full-text database in the market today totaling more than 14,000 periodicals—with over 11,000 of these in full text. Another 80,000+ titles are available in non-periodical content, such as dissertations, company reports, industry data, etc. This vast database is the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets.

While ProQuest Central provides access to millions of much-needed full-text articles from thousands of scholarly journals, it also provides entrée to information not available in other aggregated resources. Consider the following examples:

• Nearly 50,000 full-text dissertations in the areas of business, psychology, physical sciences, health, education and more, helping end-users build a more robust results set
• Concise business information from nearly 9,000 market reports across 43 industries in 40 countries, spanning the UK, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, North America, and Latin America
• Four major content areas include:
  • Business & news
  • Medical and health
  • Science and technology
  • Social sciences/humanities and general reference

ProQuest completes full-text enhancements to its Science and Technology Collections

As of Monday, May 3, 2010, ProQuest has once again redefined information solutions for science and technology research, by releasing the four remaining full-text ProQuest's Science and Technology Collections.

Our renowned CSA Illumina platform discipline-oriented databases provide Deep Indexing and access to full-text resources. Deep Indexing is the creation of relevant terms to describe the information contained within a table, chart, figure or graph, allowing the researcher to vastly improve his or her search efficiency through more precise, focused discovery of relevant articles and publications.

Now, through access to the Science and Technology Collections on ProQuest Central, searchers have the ability to retrieve the full text of many of the citation records with a simple mouse click from Illumina! Our new full-text collections, including ProQuest SciTech Collection, ProQuest Natural Science Collection, ProQuest Computer Science Collection and ProQuest Polymer Science Collection, provide researchers the most comprehensive information solutions in the market today. Talk to your account representative about subscribing to any or all of these collections or click here to request information.

New content added to ProQuest science, technical and medical products

ProQuest recently announced 21 new content additions available in its science, technical and medical coverage. For ProQuest Central customers, the enhancements encompass several ProQuest databases, including ProQuest Science Journals™, ProQuest Biology Journals™, ProQuest Health & Medical Complete™, ProQuest Medical Library, ProQuest Psychology Journals™ and ProQuest Family Health. The new content comes from key publishers, including McGraw-Hill, Springer Science & Business Media, Expert Reviews Ltd., Liverpool University Press, Future Medicine Ltd., Polish Academy of Sciences and Norsk Sykepleierforbund.

New titles include Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy (Expert Reviews Ltd.), Izvestiya. Physics of the Solid Earth (Springer Science and Business Media) and Therapy (Future Medicine Ltd.).

ProQuest keeps you informed about new content and product enhancements. Stay on top of content coming soon to ProQuest products and databases. Click here to sign up for content updates and subject-based e-newsletters. Use ProQuest's Title List System to see updates to your subscription(s).

Search Tip: Find publications covering specific geographic locations in Professional ABI/INFORM Complete™

Need to find journals that cover specific locations? You can pinpoint sources several ways in Professional ABI/INFORM Complete™. One quick way is to search by location. Suppose you need to map out a list of journals that cover business ethics focusing on Germany.

Click the Advanced tab. Enter the search term "business ethics" using quotation marks around the phrase. Scroll down. Under More Search Options, enter germany in the Location query box. Note that a hyperlink "Look up locations" appears to the right of the location query box. You can use this hyperlink to find countries and regions. Click Search. ABI/INFORM reports the results and displays the results: 88 documents found for: ("business ethics") AND GEO(germany). Once you become familiar with the search syntax, you can enter it all in one line in the Basic search tab.

ABI/INFORM displays the first ten titles in the "All sources" tab. The display, sorted by most recent first, shows titles, authors, journal names, publication dates and journal locations. Increase the number of titles shown by scrolling down to the bottom of the screen and changing the number of results per page up to 30 titles. Limit to full text by clicking "Show only full text." Browse the journal titles by "All sources," "Scholarly Journals," "Magazines" and "Trade Journals" by clicking on the appropriate tabs.

If you need specific journals, use "Look up publications" under "More Search Options". For example, click Look up publications and enter zeitschrift. Scroll down to find Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik and click "Add to Search". The Look-up display gives coverage dates and availability.

Dialog makes copyright compliance easy with Electronic Redistribution and Archiving Service (ERA^SM)

With the exponential explosion of published literature online, corporate librarians and information-management professionals face major challenges in overseeing copyright compliance in their organizations. Often, copyright compliance is a time-consuming process and end-users have to be educated in the legal consequences of unauthorized copying or sharing copyrighted electronic works. While royalty rates vary, frequently the time and effort put into compliance may be the most noteworthy cost.

ProQuest Electronic Products License Agreement (EPLA) covers copyright requirements for content under subscription, but for transactional access option, which is available on Dialog, an additional capability is offered that allows customers to secure immediate redistribution rights online as they purchase content. In the mid-'90s, Dialog anticipated these needs and worked with leading information providers and copyright holders to come up with a way the company could pass certain reuse rights along directly to customers for a fee based on intended use. Dialog ERA^SM (Electronic Redistribution and Archiving) Service became the first service to make it easy for searchers to comply with copyright laws covering the reuse of information received from the Dialog search engine.

This innovation provides a powerful, easy-to-use online service that allows users to:

• Distribute multiple copies of Dialog search results throughout your organization
• Legally store search results on your intranet, LAN, or an internal database, using a feature called ARCHIVE
• Receive additional paper copies of Dialog output for redistribution in your organization

With Dialog ERA you can access many databases, find the results you need, purchase redistribution and/or archival rights for your organization's redistribution and archival needs, and then receive the search results by a variety of delivery methods. If you are not already a Dialog customer, contact us for information.

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