Support : eNewsletters : ProQuest IQ : Issue 2, March 2011

MARCH 2011

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.

Tim Wahlberg leads Dialog and corporate markets

ProQuest and Dialog recently welcomed Tim Wahlberg as the new General Manager/Vice President, Corporate Markets, with responsibility for driving the vision for Dialog and ProQuest in the professional environment. Tim joins ProQuest from Thomson Reuters, where he held a variety of strategy and operating roles, most recently as Vice President of the Corporate Segment for the legal business unit. He brings a wealth of industry knowledge, strategic orientation and a track record of driving results, which makes him an ideal leader of the team.

See the profile and link to a personal greeting from Tim Wahlberg here.

ProQuest acquires ebrary, leader in digital books and research technology

Ebrary is the only e-book provider to offer custom subscriptions for corporate libraries with simultaneous, multi-user access. ebrary also offers growing subscription packages with unlimited, multi-user access in many subject areas including engineering, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, medical and business.

Additionally, ebrary is the only e-book provider that enables corporate customers to upload and integrate their own digital materials with DASH!™ (Data Sharing, Fast) from the convenience of their computers. ebrary also offers Software as a Service (SaaS), ideal for large-scale, custom digitization and distribution projects.

In addition to subscription, ebrary offers title-by-title purchases, department driven acquisition and publisher packages brokered on the library's behalf.

ebrary's renowned interface enables employees to increase their productivity and get products to market faster through the ability to easily find, use and manage information with cutting-edge functionality such as InfoTools™.

For more information, contact your Dialog account representative, or click here.

Jump into the All-New Platform with confidence — attend four training Webinars

New training materials and resources are available from our ProQuest Platform Migration Support Home and include links to sign-up for training, support materials and the Migration Support Center. The training team offers four 60-minute sessions, including Introduction to the New ProQuest Platform, New ProQuest Platform FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions), My Research and ProQuest Administrator Module. Sign up for training from the ProQuest Support Migration Home.

The ProQuest Platform information page also provides links to Frequently Asked Questions, such as "What kinds of changes/similarities will there be on the New ProQuest Platform?"

New business content added to ProQuest products

Nine new reports from the International Labour Organization (ILO) include "Global Wage Report," "World of Work Report," "Occupational Wages and Hours of Work and Retail Food Prices," "Global Employment Trends," "World of Work," "A Guide to Worker Displacement: Some Tools for Reducing the Impact on Workers, Communities and Enterprises" and "Issues – International Labour Organization." All of these reports have been loaded into ABI/INFORM Complete™, with six also in ABI/INFORM Global and three in ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry™.

Additional business content includes publications from The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., The Professional Book Group — with five titles including "How to Plan and Execute Strategy: 24 Steps to Implement Any Corporate Strategy Successfully," "How to Import: How to Take Your Business Across Borders." Other publishers adding content include Emerald Group Publishing, American Scholars Press, Rogers Publishing Limited, Purchasing B2B and Elsevier Science Ltd.

For specific updates regarding your subscription(s), consult ProQuest's Title List System.

NewspaperDirect PressDisplay becomes available to corporate searchers

With countries and governments changing at an unprecedented pace, it is vital to businesses to protect their interests by keeping up with international news. PressDisplay (Corporate) provides online access to today's newspapers from 93 countries in 44 languages in full-color, full-page format. The ever-expanding collection currently includes 1,000 titles. Just like reading the familiar print edition, viewers can browse articles and other key content, such as pictures, advertisements, classifieds, and notices. The service also provides up to a 60-day rolling backfile and the ability to perform keyword searches across all titles and the entire archive.

PressDisplay's SmartNavigation provides additional functionality such as translating an article in up to 12 different languages, newspaper audio, listen to an article, blog and Digg™ articles, link articles to Facebook and the social bookmarking Web service Delicious, and print an entire full-image page or an article in ASCII format.

PressDisplay offers the option for personalized access, which includes features available on the consumer PressDisplay interface. The consumer interface offers alerts, offline reading and bookmarks. For more information, contact your Dialog account manager, or click here.

Dialog offers international local media sources in World News Connection

Want to read what the international press has to say about unrest in North Africa? How are the uprisings affecting Turkish and Portuguese businesses? Recognizing the timely importance of understanding global socioeconomic, political and economic developments, Dialog offers World News Connection^® (WNC^®) (File 985). Compiled by Open Source Center (OSC) from the U.S. government and produced by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), the database brings thousands of non-U.S. media sources, translated into English, to the WNC user desktop, usually within 24-72 hours from the time of the original publication or broadcast and the file updates multiple times per day.

Coverage is comprehensive from newspaper and magazine articles (both hard copy and e-copy), television and radio broadcasts, blogs, conference proceedings and technical reports, including journals and gray literature, which allows you to take advantage of the intelligence analysis by the OCS.

A standalone search site resides and wnc.dialog.com, where you can click to subscribe. For more information, contact your Dialog representative or click here.

CEO Marty Kahn gives his ProQuest vision in Information Today

In an interview in the February 2011 issue of Information Today, ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn identifies the company mission to "create indispensable research solutions that connect people and information." The article offers a history of ProQuest and gives insight into the development of the all-new ProQuest Platform. Mr. Kahn also explains some of the decisions in the company's acquisition of ebrary and its team of outstanding developers.

New CSA Discovery Guide reveals the real secret behind alternate sensory technology

The brain carries the secret behind alternate sensory technology as revealed in the latest Discovery Guide. Learn how neuroplasticity helps the brain to work around damaged parts by developing new channels.

Content changes announced

Incisive Media is no longer available to the corporate market due to a request by the publisher. Safari has received a request from Kaplan Publishing to retire all their titles from Safari Books Online.

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