Support : eNewsletters : ProQuest IQ : Issue 3, May 2011

MAY 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.

ProQuest builds business content to bring you mission-critical insights

ProQuest has continued to invest heavily in business content from around the world — not just in scholarly journals, but in a full range of content types from peer-reviewed to trade and industry reports and market-research materials. Here is a review of some of the major content we added in 2010:

• 150 new scholarly journals in full text from well-known leaders in scholarly publishers such as Palgrave Macmillan, Emerald, IUP and others. Publications such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management and Marketing Research, International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, IUP Journal of Financial Risk Management, IUPJournal of Marketing Management, plus many other titles cutting across all sections of business research.
• New data and reports from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, International Labour Organization, World Bank, and OECD will help researchers put their work in context.
• Business News Content including The Economist.
• Open Web Article Linking introduced in 2010, connects the abstract and index record of select periodicals to its full-text article on the publisher's open web site. Included among the titles currently linked are:
  • Time
  • U.S News & World Report
  • Kiplinger's Personal Finance
  • Forbes (note full-text backfile for this title remains in ProQuest products)

Note that links are included on records only for freely accessible articles on the web and not for articles behind a paywall. ProQuest platform search results with these titles will display the abstract and index record, and a link to full text, that when clicked takes users to the full-text article on the publisher's open web site. In addition to the titles noted above is data and research from the Bureau of Labor Statistics-Consumer Price Index.

Partnerships formed with key content providers

In 2010 we were able to secure long-term preferred partnerships with The Economist and Palgrave Macmillan. We're happy to provide you with the details below.*

The Economist — Preferred Partner Agreement
ProQuest is pleased to announce that it has secured a Preferred Partner Agreement with The Economist magazine securing our ability to deliver this premier business and economics weekly "viewspaper" via the ProQuest platform.

Palgrave Macmillan — Preferred Partner Agreement
Palgrave Macmillan is an acknowledged leader in scholarly publishing and brings a stable of top-ranked titles across multiple disciplines. ProQuest has for some time had several of the Palgrave journals on an exclusive basis. As part of a new Preferred Partner agreement, an additional 33 titles will be converted to exclusive basis and another 10 new titles will be added — making for a total of 63 exclusive and 14 non-exclusive publications. The following are some examples of the titles, including Palgrave's flagship, Journal of International Business Studies, that are part of the agreement:

• Journal of International Business Studies
• Asian Business & Management
• Geneva Papers on Risk & Insurance
• Acta Politica
• Journal of International Relations Development

*Varying publisher embargoes apply.

New ProQuest Business Package extends coverage of core disciplines

The new ProQuest Business Package is our largest set of business content ever offered and is completely cross-searchable on the all-new ProQuest platform. For current and new customers alike this package extends coverage of core business disciplines such as accounting, banking, finance, economics, entrepreneurship and innovation while adding focus on global business. Also accessible is increased coverage of related disciplines across the social sciences. Current customers can upgrade to this package at special pricing. The six resources making up this package are:

• ABI/INFORM Complete™
• ProQuest Entrepreneurship
• ProQuest Accounting & Tax
• International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS)
• ProQuest Asian and Business Reference™
• ProQuest Banking Information Source™

For details talk to your account representative or click here.

EconLit integrated into the Business vertical on the ProQuest platform

When CSA Illumina was integrated into the new platform, it opened up new time-saving ability to connect to full text from abstract and index content if available with your subscriptions. For subscribers to EconLit who also have ABI/INFORM^®, this means that the EconLit A&I file is enhanced with full-text content from ABI/INFORM provided your library subscribes to ABI/INFORM.

The value of this integration has never been better. Full text links on EconLit have grown 60% since January 2008 with more than 400 titles found in EconLit now available in ABI/INFORM and nearly 280 active full-text titles.

Produced by the American Economic Association, EconLit is recognized worldwide for its authoritative coverage of the literature of economics and related disciplines, ranging from general economics and economic theory, to microeconomics, macroeconomics, economic history, economic development and more. It indexes over 750 journals as well as other publication types including books, working papers, dissertations, and book reviews, with a total record count of over 935,000.

ProQuest Medical Evidence Matters aids decision-makers

For competitive intelligence and market-share penetration, do you need to know the efficacy of treatments, drugs or alternatives in the market? Medical Evidence Matters (MEM) helps you assess therapy options for known medical conditions by comparing outcomes from the peer-reviewed literature. Medical Evidence Matters supports researchers, clinicians, librarians, and decision-makers in finding the best evidence for medical decisions. It covers 10 subject areas including cardiology, gynecology, neurology, oncology, pediatrics and respiratory disorders, to name some.

Presented on an easy-to-use interface, Medical Evidence Matters presents evidence for the effectiveness of therapies in data from many thousands of research articles from hundreds of leading peer-reviewed journals. Databases such as MEDLINE^®, CINAHL^® and Cochrane are continuously reviewed for new articles that meet the criteria for inclusion in MEM. Results are organized into summary graphs and tables, helping you to gauge the evidence for the effectiveness of the range of therapy options for individual patients.

Unlike other tools which heavily rely on expert opinion, Medical Evidence Matters is the only tool that can help you find — quickly — all the evidence from the peer-reviewed research that is relevant to individual patient-oriented questions. The result? Spend less time reading, and more time analyzing the market.

Results can be customized to allow you to assess alternative therapies, alternative patient characteristics (e.g. age, sex, etc.), alternative treatment characteristics, and alternative research characteristics (e.g. type of research, place of research, quality of research, etc.). You can also compare effectiveness of therapies based on a range of clinical outcomes.

Interested in subscribing? Contact your Dialog Account Manager or click here.

Use Migration Support Center to get answers about the all-new ProQuest platform

Wondering how the new ProQuest platform will enhance your searching? Visit the Migration Support Center for fast answers. There are four tabs. In the first tab you can enter search queries, such as operators, and get information, including a Search Syntax Conversion Guide and operator precedence when more than one operator is in a search query. The second tab lets you browse the Support Library. When you click Support Library, folders appear that you can open to find links to items such as found in the folder My Research: "About Shared Lists", "How to Create a My Research Account" and more.

A third tab presents frequently asked questions (FAQ), and the fourth folder provides contact information.

ProQuest offers several knowledge base portals that allow you to quickly and easily find answers to questions on many of our platforms. You can even "subscribe" to a support article and receive email notification when updates take place.

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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) adds new publishing partners

Several notable new institutions began publishing dissertations with ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) in 2010. These include:

• International School of Management (France)
• Multimedia University (Malaysia)
• Singapore Management University (Singapore — publishing also on PQDT-Open)
• Universidad De Usto (Spain)
• IE University (Instituto de Empresa) (Spain)
• Universidad Cadiz (Spain)

PQDT now contains more than 2.9 million abstract and index records and over 1.4 million PhD and Master's theses available to download in full-text PDF format (available in the PQDT-FT product). In addition, ProQuest offers more than 7,000 dissertations featuring multi-media content (video, PowerPoint, Excel and computer code).

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses is an invaluable tool for uncovering developing research, tracking technology trends and breakthroughs and locating experts entering industrial fields. For information on how to subscribe to PQDT, contact your Dialog account manager or click here.

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