Support : eNewsletters : ProQuest IQ : Issue 1, May 2012

MAY 2012

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 takes on The Statistical Abstract of the United States

When the U.S. Census Bureau announced in March 2011 it would cease production of the Statistical Abstract of the United States after the 2012 edition, widespread concern arose among librarians, journalists and researchers about the loss of this essential research tool. ProQuest came to the rescue.

Beginning with the 2013 edition, ProQuest will publish The Statistical Abstract of the United States, a premier guide to an extraordinary array of statistics, which has been published since 1878.

“The Statistical Abstract of the United States has a long tradition of gathering what could be a confusing mass of content and presenting it in a way that makes it simple for users to connect with just the right nugget of information,” said Rod Gauvin, Senior Vice President and General Manager, ProQuest Information Solutions. “That is simply too valuable a service for researchers to lose. ProQuest is honored to continue its contribution.”

ProQuest is uniquely suited to the demanding editorial support that will be required to continue the high quality of the Statistical Abstract. The company, which employs 25 statistical editors in its Bethesda office, has acquired indexed and republished Federal statistics since 1973. The staff is experienced in the accurate compilation of statistics from various sources and their correct annotation, enabling ProQuest to preserve the Statistical Abstract's dual role as answer book and source guide.

For more information, click here.

RefWorks 2.0 launches the next generation of research management

RefWorks has always provided advanced tools that empower research, and now RefWorks 2.0 has all the power of RefWorks with a new interface and abilities that further enhance the user experience. RefWorks 2.0 has key functions that government, medical, and corporate organizations rely on to manage, share, and link their research and writing. The new interface provides information professionals and librarians the support they need to be successful, enabling them through collaboration tools, citation support and source management.

RefWorks 2.0 is all the best of Classic, but streamlined with a clean, intuitive design that's:

• Simple—with key functions via new buttons, navigation toolbars, action icons, light boxes, and collapsible menus with one-click features and support resources at the user's fingertips
• Powerful—with the ability to quickly view full references and share information with colleagues or researchers anywhere, whether they are RefWorks users or not
• Loved—by all levels of users

See highlights of the new interface here. Don't have RefWorks yet? Contact your Dialog account representative or click here.

Turn on the power of RefWorks 2.0 today.

ProQuest Statistical Insight and DataSets brings a world of numbers to one product

Do you spend a lot of time gathering and compiling statistical data from multiple sources? How often do your colleagues say they have the data they need for a critical business decision, but you know they haven't scratched the surface? Do you want to compare datasets from several sources? With ProQuest^® Statistical Insight and DataSets you can search many sources for one topic, compare and analyze data, and change output for a personalized display of information.

ProQuest Statistical Insight provides fast and easy access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, states, private companies, and major inter-governmental organizations. This award-winning reference tool enables users to easily and quickly search across content compiled from hundreds of reliable public domain and licensed sources, whether the information is found in tables, statistical reports, publication abstracts, or datasets.

Find economic statistics such as:

• Employment by occupation and industry
• GDP and components
• Health condition, hospitalizations, health insurance coverage, deaths by cause
• Household food expenditures in relation to income
• Federal funding for R&D since 1990
• Market share of major insurance companies
• Unemployment rate and food trends
• OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development) data

For information on ProQuest Statistical Insight features click here. Need more details about ProQuest Statistical Insight and ProQuest Statistical DataSets? Contact your Dialog account representative or click here.

World News Connection opens a spyglass on international developments

Need to uncover what's really happening in the Middle East and Africa? Get hold of an extensive array of translated and English-language news from specific countries and regions throughout Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Oceania. Updated daily, World News Connection^® (WNC) is particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources from around the world. Its 800 plus English-language and translated non-U.S. news sources cover significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical and environmental issues and events. Sources include news articles, Web sites, broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports and it is cross-searchable with the other news content on the ProQuest platform.

World News Connection is a valuable research tool for anyone who needs to monitor non-U.S. media sources. The data is supplied to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Open Source Center (OSC), a U.S. Government agency. World News Collection lets you take advantage of the intelligence-gathering experience of the OSC. To subscribe to World News Connection, contact your Dialog account representative or click here.

ebrary introduces a mobile app

To meet researchers' evolving needs, ebrary^®, a leading provider of ebooks and research technology, has launched a new app for the iPad^®, iPhone^®, and iPod touch^®. If you haven't used ebrary yet, now it's easier and more convenient than ever.

Available on the App Store℠, the free new app gives researchers an optimized way to experience authoritative content, both online and offline, from multiple sources. With ebrary's new app, researchers can access content on the ebrary platform, including e-books their librarians acquire from leading publishers and documents uploaded and integrated by librarians with DASH!™(Data Sharing, Fast). Additionally, users can import their own personal research outside of the ebrary platform through the app. And to make it easier to use ebrary with or without the app, ebrary researchers can sign-in with their Facebook usernames and passwords.

Key features and benefits of ebrary's new mobile app include:

• Freely available with any ebrary product, offering a growing selection of more than 70,000 ebooks
• Online and offline reading
• Seamless downloading of full titles
• Simple and advanced search
• Multiple navigation controls
• Table of contents with relevancy rankings
• Early check-in of ebrary's e-books
• Copy and paste with automatic citation for offline documents
• User-configurable download size warnings
• Import and use documents from other sources
• Available in English and Spanish

Note: To download e-books, you'll need an Adobe ID. If you don't have one, you may create one for free. If you haven't used ebrary yet, now it's easier and more convenient than ever.

Discover information professional communities in Discover More Corps

The ProQuest Discover More Corps is a new social network where you can connect with a global community of current and future librarians, have access to ProQuest's popular Quantum² professional development series and explore a complementary resource each month. Here you can get details about and register for the monthly Quantum² Webinar, link to recordings of past Webinars, join groups, start or enter discussions and find the Database of the Month.

Sign up or sign in here.

ProQuest and Dialog provide You Tube videos for quick refreshers

Need a quick refresher on how to email PDFs and original file formats following a search on the ProQuest platform? Do you want to show a new employee how to quickly conduct a Basic Search? Want to review how to create an RSS feed in ProQuest? Take advantage of the new videos created by the ProQuest training team.

For more in-depth training grow your skill base by attending free full-length ProQuest Webinars that feature new topics including ABI/INFORM FAQ.

ProQuest Dialog™ searchers can also find quick refreshers on the ProQuest Dialog You Tube site where they can watch 2-3 minute videos on Basic Searching, creating a database shortcut group, using the language translation tool and limiting by dates. Here they can also get acquainted with such content sources as GeoRef and The Economist.

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