Support : eNewsletters : ProQuest IQ : Issue 6, November 2010

NOVEMBER 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.

ProQuest gains recognition for technical achievement

ProQuest has ranked 17th in the 2010 InformationWeek 500, an annual listing of the nation's most innovative users of business technology. ProQuest, best known for its creation of information and technology tools that support research, is the top-ranked Michigan-based company and even placed higher than distinguished technology giants. InformationWeek is a premier source of news and analysis of leading-edge products and vendors in the business IT industry. Its InformationWeek 500 list is considered unique among industry rankings for its spotlight on the power of innovation in information technology.

"ProQuest is seeing the payoff for its commitment to technology innovation in a number of ways," said ProQuest's Chief Information Officer Bipin Patel. "We've enabled researchers to accomplish their goals and add to the world's knowledge; libraries are able to serve their patrons with cutting-edge online services; and now, to have this recognition from an esteemed organization such as InformationWeek, is truly gratifying."

This is ProQuest's second consecutive appearance in the InformationWeek 500 and its first appearance in the top 20. The company is being recognized for its use of innovation in the development of user-centered search technologies that advance research in academic and professional settings. Click here for more information.

Discover the new Dialog

ProQuest Dialog, based on the technology behind the new ProQuest platform, presents an intuitive search interface for end-users, combined with a new approach to precision search based on relevancy, transparency, control and completeness. If you're curious about ProQuest's new platform take a look at two videos about the background and capabilities of ProQuest Dialog: the first release by Lynn Christie, VP, Global Product Management, and the technology behind the scenes by Bipin Patel, ProQuest CIO.

Hear what people are saying about their searching experiences using ProQuest Dialog at the ResourceShelf Blog.

Want to find out how you can test drive the new Dialog? Contact your Dialog account manager or visit here.

Professional ABI/INFORM Complete on ProQuest adds more business content

In recent months, several content additions have been made to Professional ABI/INFORM Complete™ on ProQuest to enhance its business news offerings.

• 11 publications from the International Labour Organization (ILO). The well-known organization publishes the results of research related to the changing nature of work and employment, which is of importance to policy makers and others. Technical guides, Codes of Practice and training manuals are also produced. The ILO publications available on Professional ABI/INFORM^® include A Guide to Worker Displacement: Some Tools for Reducing the Impact on Workers, Communities and Enterprises, Global Employment Trends, Global Wage Report and International Journal of Labour Research.

• American Information enhanced on ABI/INFORM Complete by 35 business news digests from South American Business Information (SABI). Professional ABI/INFORM Complete users now have access to South American Business Information (SABI)'s archives that contain a digest of the main business events that have taken place since 2005 in South America and Mexico. SABI, an international news service, provides around 1,000 executive summaries in English, drawing upon a range of newspapers, magazines and Web sites in Portuguese and Spanish languages.

  The SABI publications include ADVFN; Barueri, Agencia Andina; Lima, Brasil Econômico; Sao Paulo and El Mercurio; Santiago.

  ABI/INFORM^® has a rich array of content focusing on Latin America including over 30 reports from Business Monitor International covering automobile, banking, food and drink, insurance, petrochemicals, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, power, telecommunications, transport, mining, tourism, and freight transport.

• Publications from top scholarly universities — Universidad Icesi (Columbia), Universidade Católica de Brasília UCB (Brazil), Universidad de Talca (Chile), Georgetown University (Chile), and Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Columbia) are also included.

ProQuest Central: What can you learn about Pakistan?

Pakistan is at the forefront of world news and events there impact our families, businesses and prospects for global peace. News outlets offer major new stories every day on happenings in various areas of this conflicted country. But what do you really know about it?

ProQuest Central offers a comprehensive source of global news and editorials for just about every subject, and most results are in full text. For example, searching "India and Pakistan", using quotation marks around the statement in multiple databases reveals tens of thousands of articles, some 94% of them in full text. Using advanced search, limiting the search to the last 12 months, and then clicking on Scholarly Journals, yields more than 30 articles from a variety of sources, such as the Journal of Peace Research, Terrorism & Political Violence, The Journal of Developing Areas, and Women's Studies International Forum.

ABI/INFORM, Accounting & Tax Dissertations added

New dissertations have been added to ABI/INFORM^® and ProQuest Accounting & Tax:

• ABI/INFORM — 901 new works, including 15 foreign-language dissertations
• ProQuest Accounting & Tax — 44 new dissertations

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source presents solid research findings

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source™, part of ProQuest Central, meets the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities. It provides broad and reliable information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine and more. It makes available access to not only high-quality full-text journals, but other fabulous non-bibliographic content, including the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) evidence-based nursing information (with unique training tools from JBI - SUMARI and RAPid), dissertations, Study Paths, Medcom Videos, cultural competency reports and more.

The need for current and comprehensive information is especially critical in areas of health and wellness. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health contains many different types of renowned publications — some addressing broad content areas, while others focusing on very specific areas of study. Periodicals include Clinical Laboratory Science, Journals of Gerontology, Journal of Psychological Nursing & Mental Health Services, The Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine and hundreds more. To gain access, contact your Dialog account manager or visit us here.

Dialog teams with WIPO to support innovation in developing countries

Recognizing the critical role played by research and innovation in fostering human welfare and development, Dialog, together with other major patent information providers, has teamed with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to provide access to specialized patent information sources to some of the world's least-developed countries. At a ceremony in Geneva in September, where Lynn Christie, VP of Global Product Management, represented Dialog, participating groups signed an agreement to offer access to a range of content resources via industrial property offices as well as academic and research institutions, under special access fees that reflect the state of national economies in these developing and least-developed nations. See Dialog's press release.

Get the most out of searching ProQuest: attend a training Webinar

For the last 35 years, ABI/INFORM^® has been, and continues to be, one of the most comprehensive and popular sources of business information. During this past year, new market reports, analytical tools and other non-bibliographic content have taken this resource to incomparable levels. The ability to create links to this unique content brings the end-user to the answers they are seeking very quickly. Our ABI/INFORM webinar helps participants discover what's new and offers some tips for uncovering highly-desired, current business information. See training options here, where you can click through to the training calendar and/or recorded seminars and download online training tutorials.

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