Support : eNewsletters : ProQuest IQ : Issue 4, July 2011

JULY 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.

Dig into Earth Sciences with Deep Indexing on ProQuest

Businesses involved in geologic research, civil engineering, construction, energy or conservation should consider adding the ProQuest Earth Sciences Collection, available through ProQuest, to your research resources.

Earth Science relates to fields including geology, geophysics, soil science and oceanography. Practical applications can relate to monitoring earthquakes, drilling for oil, civil engineering, observing volcanic activity and harnessing geothermal energy.

Essential: as the basic building block for Earth Science subscriptions, start with GeoRef on ProQuest. An abstract and index (A&I) database produced by the American Geological Society, GeoRef is available from a variety of other sources including Dialog. The added value on ProQuest is Deep Indexing and the potential to reach full-text content.

Alongside GeoRef is GeoScience World (GSW), also produced by the American Geological Society, which is fully interoperable and complementary to GeoRef. GSW subscribers must have a current subscription to GeoRef.

ProQuest exclusive: only ProQuest offers Deep Indexing: Earth Science, with enhanced functionality for more effective searching and over 2.6 million indexed figures and tables. It is included as standard with ProQuest's GeoRef offering.

ProQuest's Earth Science Collection comprises GeoRef with Deep Indexing: Earth Science and ProQuest Earth Science Journals. The additional journals component in ProQuest Earth Science Journals brings well over 400 full-text titles in the Earth Science and Geology field.

Find out how you can subscribe to the ProQuest Earth Science Collection. Contact your Dialog account representative or click here.

Complement ProQuest and Dialog sources with ebrary

An excellent complementary resource to ProQuest Dialog, ebrary is a member of the ProQuest family and provides some 234,000 titles for purchase with more than 1,900 e-books added just recently. ebrary contains innovative reference tools and a rich collection of books, journals, magazines, maps and other publications. These aggregated collections cover such industries as business and economics, computers and electronics, engineering, oil and gas, healthcare, pharmaceuticals and many others.

ebrary offers a wide variety of flexible models for acquiring e-books from trusted publishers including Springer, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, British Informatics Society, IOS Press, OECD, Wiley and others. Make research quick and efficient — use ebrary's cutting-edge technology DASH!™ to create searchable databases of your own digital materials that integrate with ebrary's content.

ebrary Topic of the Week
To make it easier for libraries to keep their e-book collections current and timely, ebrary is pleased to introduce Topic of the Week, which highlights premium titles on hot issues hand-picked by its on-staff librarians. Topics include corporate sustainability and how to develop a successful strategy for the company, from risk management to sustainable buildings. Sign up for weekly alerts. Contact your account representative or click here for more information about this exciting new source of information.

U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis, and Covert Action available from DNSA

Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) has announced a new collection, U.S. Intelligence and China: Collection, Analysis, and Covert Action, now available on ProQuest.

The set is made up of 2,355 items and covers the period from 1945 to the present. The documents included in the set were obtained from a number of sources — the National Intelligence Council's Tracking the Dragon collection, the CIA's CREST collection at the National Archives at College Park, Md., the POLO, ESAU and CAESAR collections on the CIA's website, Freedom of Information Act requests, and additional archival research.

This set serves as a complement to at least two other National Security Archive collections published through ProQuest that contain significant documentation concerning U.S. intelligence analysis focusing on China or Taiwan — the 1999 collection, China and The United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998, and the 2006 collection, U.S. Intelligence and Weapons of Mass Destruction: From World War II to Iraq.

Serials Solution Summon takes CODiE top honors

The Serials Solutions^® Summon™ discovery service won top honors at the 2011 Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) CODiE™ Awards, and was named Best Enterprise Search Solution. Information industry professionals named the Summon service winner after a rigorous evaluation using a standardized set of criteria, including usability, content, technology and visual interface.

Launched in 2009, the Summon service brings the simple, easy, fast and familiar searching found on the open web to library searching. A cornerstone of the Summon service is its unified index, which makes the full breadth of a library's collection – from print to e-resources at the article level – easily discoverable from a single search box and allows a user to be presented with a single set of relevancy-ranked search results.

ProQuest businesses have now received nine CODiE Awards since 1986, making it one of the most honored enterprises serving the library community.

The SIIA CODiE Awards, now in their 25^th year, hold the distinction of being the industry's only peer-reviewed awards program. Each submitted product goes through two rigorous reviews and demonstrations to make it as a finalist, and hopefully a winner. The CODiE Awards are given for excellence in the business software, digital content and education-technology industries.

New business content added to ABI/INFORM products in 2011

ProQuest has added new publications* in 2011 to products including ABI/INFORM Complete™, ABI/INFORM Global™ and ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry™. Offerings include Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index, Employment Cost Index, Productivity and Costs and Real Earnings. Other publishers adding content include Emerald Group Publishing, with International Journal of Climate Strategies and Management and International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences, Macrothink Institute Inc., with Journal of Management Research, and SourceMedia with Securities Industry News.

In addition, ProQuest has added some 600 industry and market reports to ABI/INFORM Complete™ from top providers such as Business Monitor International, Dun & Bradstreet/Hoovers, ISI Emerging Markets, Oxford Economic Forecasting, and Petrocil. The new content increases coverage of such key industries as energy, sustainability, health, medical and pharmaceuticals, raw commodities and resources, and finance, and includes country-focused worldwide information.

In June, ProQuest signed a five-year agreement with American Economic Association (AEA), publisher of seven highly-ranked economic journals, including American Economic Journal: Applied Economics and American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Watch for these journals in ABI/INFORM Global™.

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

*Varying publisher embargoes apply.

Science collection expands

New content added to ProQuest science and technology products include Asian Bioethics Review, published by Asian Bioethics Review, added to the ProQuest Biological Science Collection, the ProQuest Natural Science Collection and ProQuest SciTech Collection, Global Journal of Computer Science and Technology, from Global Journals, and Rocky Mountain Geology, from University of Wyoming, Department of Geology and Geophysics, found in ProQuest Earth Science Collection, ProQuest Natural Science Collection and ProQuest SciTech Collection.

New Discovery Guide examines hygiene in the industrial world

"Hygiene in the Industrial World: An Unhealthy Obsession with Cleanliness?" is the topic of a recent Discovery Guide. The study gives a history of hygiene and questions the "hygiene hypothesis," which postulates that cleaner living conditions and reduction of exposure to childhood diseases have brought about increasing rates of allergies in industrialized nations. The research paper examines our relationships with a broad assortment of microorganisms and parasites across the millennia, comparing post-industrial cleanliness with conditions and health in developing countries, Japan, and the pop culture. Concerns about the proliferation of antibiotics and antiseptics are considered and the authors wonder how semi-sterile urban environments impact normal development of the human immune system.

And don't miss the July 2011 release, "Moving Pictures: The History of Early Cinema," written by Political Science Editor Brian Manley.

Get the most out of your research on ProQuest: take a Webinar on advanced searching

The new ProQuest platform brings you the best search experience possible, including advanced search options to help you locate relevant content quickly. Join an online session with one of our trainers to learn how to use the advanced search features and functionality. Gain answers to your questions and find out how to access support, including tutorials, help pages and documentation. The session is scheduled for 45 minutes to cover:

• Advanced Search, Command Line, Look Up Citation and Find Similar search forms
• Using ProQuest Smart Search to identify relevant subject terms
• Search results — faceted search options, document preview and more
• Using the Thesaurus to locate appropriate subject terms
• Learn how to format a search using field codes, proximity operators and special characters
• Create a marked list and view selected items
• Questions?

The ProQuest trainers have also created a 30-minute session called My Research & RefWorks: Perfect Together. Find out how the My Research tool can work with your existing RefWorks account to provide a seamless research experience.

Click here to view our training schedule.

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