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November 19, 2015
Corilee Christou |
ProQuest Enhancements: Users First It's been 7 years since ProQuest acquired Dialog from Thomson Reuters. At that time, librarians worldwide were either exhilarated or dismayed.   |
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March 25, 2010 |
Summon Discovery Service Adds Database Recommender Feature ProQuest's Serials Solutions (www.serialssolutions.com) has added a new feature to its Summon web-scale discovery service that leads searchers to specialized databases in a library's collection. |
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November 6, 2008 |
ProQuest Introduces Redesigned Website Among the key features of new site are the ProQuest Support Center, a more powerful search engine, and an all-new product access feature that directs end users to library gateways. |
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March 12, 2009 |
Serials Solutions' Summon Service Adds Content and Development Partners The new beta site and content additions are part of the Summon service's aggressive growth and development program in preparation for its launch mid-year. |
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July 20, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Builds on EBSCOhost Platform With New Search Services Providing a single point of access to a broad range of library materials seems to be emerging as the Holy Grail of the library world. |
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August 20, 2012
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Graduate Education Program Serves Tomorrow's Librarians, Today's Library School Faculties The recently announced ProQuest Graduate Education Program offers library schools and other educational settings a way for students and teachers to reach the company's full array of resources. |
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June 28, 2010 |
ProQuest Unveils New Technologies for its Upcoming Platform The new platform will now include ProQuest Extended Search, a Serials Solutions technology that will enable libraries to connect to other non-ProQuest databases as well. |
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July 25, 2011
Marydee Ojala |
Kurt Sanford Replaces Marty Kahn as ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn handed over the CEO reins of ProQuest to Kurt Sanford, a 14-year veteran of LexisNexis, on July 13, 2011. Kahn will move on to the post of vice chairman of ProQuest's Board of Directors. |
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June 3, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Getting the Most Out of Discovery Service Here's an overview of the four major discovery services for libraries, including their newly implemented features. |
Information Today
April 1, 2013
Barbara Quint |
Serials Solutions' Summon 2.0 Coming in June One of the most popular discovery engines -- Summon from Serials Solutions, a ProQuest company -- should be getting even more popular this summer. A new, substantially enhanced version will begin replacing the current version. |
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August 26, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Dialog Begins New Platform Rollout; New ProQuest Platform Begins Preview Period Since the acquisition of Dialog 2 years ago by ProQuest, customers of the Dialog and DataStar services have been keeping a close watch to see what would happen. |
Information Today
January 26, 2009
Barbara Quint |
Single Interface Library Service From Serials Solutions: The Summon Referred to by Serials Solutions staff as a "unified discovery service," the new interface provides a single search box -- a la Google -- that can reach out to all the digital sources available through library licensing and all the digitally identified physical resources |
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July 22, 2014 |
ProQuest Integrates Flow and Summon Services Researchers have persistent access across both platforms, which allows them to save reference citations, collaborate with colleagues, and share content. |
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September 2000 |
Bell & Howell Information and Learning Unveils ProQuest 4.0 4.0 adds an intelligent document-linking capability to their online information research system. |
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August 13, 2015 |
ProQuest-Google Scholar Indexing Is Now Complete The full text of ProQuest's scholarly content (journals and working papers, etc.) is now indexed in Google Scholar. |
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February 19, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Acquires Federated Search Provider WebFeat The acquisition serves to reduce the number of key contenders in the federated search market, brings a big advantage to Serials Solutions in competing effectively, and definitely puts pressure on the competition. |
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October 2, 2014 |
ProQuest's Collections Are Now Discoverable Through Primo Ex Libris Group agreed to index 200-plus ProQuest databases -- such as ProQuest Central and ABI/INFORM -- in the Primo Central Index so they can be found via the Primo discovery service. |
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March 4, 2013 |
OCLC and ProQuest Collaborate to Enhance Library Discovery Metadata will be shared across some of the world's most-widely used library resources, enriching the discoverability and comprehensiveness of all the services. |
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February 2, 2012
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Works to Integrate Assets and Services Last summer, ProQuest welcomed Kurt Sanford as its new CEO. He has now had 6 months leading the company and has already made his mark with a reorganization of leadership, new customer focus, and product migrations and integrations. |
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April 28, 2011 |
ProQuest's Deep Indexing Technology Awarded Patent; Now Available on New ProQuest Platform ProQuest extracts and indexes data about graphic objects in journal literature to allow it to be searched as effectively as full text. |
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March 5, 2007 |
ProQuest CSA's Marketing Toolkit for Public Libraries Makes Its Debut ProQuest CSA just launched a free Library Marketing Toolkit for public librarians, who are facing many challenges today. |
Information Today
January 11, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
EBSCO Publishing Releases Its EBSCO Discovery Service EBSCO is going head to head with the Summon service from Serials Solutions, which has content agreements with ProQuest, Gale, LexisNexis, and others. |
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August 27, 2015 |
ProQuest Debuts Platform Enhancements The company used deep analysis of researcher behaviors, extensive testing with users and librarians, and other testing to improve the discovery of and access to ProQuest content. |
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November 14, 2013 |
ProQuest Enters Automation Beta Phase ProQuest entered a beta test phase to automate ebrary and EBL (Ebook Library) holdings updates in its Summon service and 360 discovery and management services. |
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August 4, 2003
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Introduces PQNext Interface ProQuest Information and Learning has launched PQNext, a major revision interface that introduces a range of new features to increase precision searching. The PQNext interface supports browsable lists, grouping of results, formatted bibliographies, improved displays, and refined help screens. |
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January 27, 2003
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Begins Its Integration of bigchalk The takeover of the digital learning resource provider for the K-12 education market provides ProQuest with a collection of new licensed content as well as some interesting technological and interface improvements. |
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November 12, 2012
Barbara Quint |
Smarter Searching With Summon Suggestions The Summon discovery service is used by more than 500 libraries in more than 40 countries. It is built on a unified index of content, leveraging "match and merge" technology to combine rich metadata and full text from multiple sources. |
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November 13, 2014 |
Intota Debuts Workflow Feature; NSA Docs Go Digital Intota, ProQuest's library services platform, introduced a workflow feature called My Intota, which gives librarians a central point for managing the broad range of tasks associated with e-resources. |
Information Today
September 23, 2010 |
Web of Science Now Available With Summon Web-Scale Discovery Service Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, announced the integration of content from the Thomson Reuters' subscription-based Web of Science service with its Summon web-scale discovery service. |
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November 9, 2009 |
Summon Service to Include MLA International Bibliography The MLA International Bibliography provides a subject index to print and electronic books, articles and websites published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
Information Today
November 22, 2010 |
All-New ProQuest Platform Goes Live--In France France's Universite Lumiere Lyon II has migrated to the all-new ProQuest platform, making it the first institution to enable students and faculty to search, discover, gather, and share content using the new technology. |
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April 9, 2015 |
ProQuest's Acquisition of SIPX Connects Libraries to the University Community ProQuest -- through its affiliate Bowker -- acquired digital course materials solution creator SIPX. |
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July 19, 2004
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Launches (Next) New Interface The new release introduces ProQuest Smart Search, a technology that taps into the company's indexing to offer suggestions to users. The service also updated advanced browsing, linking and e-mail capabilities. |
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May 7, 2012
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest for Everyone: The Udini Service Officially Launches ProQuest has officially launched Udini, an end-user service that is open to all web users. |
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February 18, 2010 |
New Direct Export Partners Link to RefWorks Dialog's DataStar service, GoPubMed, R2 Digital Library, and DanBib are now among the more than 300 online databases linking directly to RefWorks. |
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February 10, 2011 |
ARTstor Images Discoverable Through Serials Solutions' Summon Service ARTstor Digital Library provides more than 1 million images in the areas of art, architecture, humanities, and sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. |
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September 15, 2015 |
ProQuest Facilitates Library Access to Global Newspapers ProQuest rolled out the Newspapers.com Library Edition, giving library patrons access to more than 85 million pages of digitized newspapers from the early 1700s to the early 2000s. |
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December 5, 2005
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Centers on Black Studies ProQuest Information and Learning has released Black Studies Center, its second research center. |
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February 20, 2014 |
ProQuest and OCLC Partner for Library Discovery ProQuest added more than 320 million records from the ProQuest Central cross-disciplinary research tool to OCLC's WorldCat Discovery Services, a combination of OCLC's FirstSearch and WorldCat Local that debuts in March. |
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July 7, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Ebook Developments Were HOT at ALA At the recent American Library Association Annual conference, it's clear that librarians are focused on embracing the expanding digital world and specifically on providing ebooks as part of library services. |
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January 13, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Acquires Ebook Pioneer ebrary With the goal to "accelerate the process of serious research," ProQuest has acquired ebrary, a respected, pioneering ebook provider to libraries and corporations. |
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November 8, 2010 |
JSTOR and Serials Solutions Partner to Enhance Discoverability of Resources A pilot project will allow students and researchers at institutions subscribing to the Summon web-scale discovery service to automatically find their library's Summon service search box when they use JSTOR. |
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June 30, 2015 |
ProQuest Announces New Version of Intota ProQuest announced that version 2 of Intota, its cloud-based library services platform, will be available in mid-2016. |
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October 13, 2015
Marydee Ojala |
ProQuest to Acquire Ex Libris Group In a move that caught most of the library world by surprise, on Oct. 6, 2015, ProQuest announced its intention to acquire Israel-based Ex Libris Group from private equity company Golden Gate Capital. |
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January 28, 2010
Barbara Quint |
EBSCO Exclusives Trigger Turmoil Major among the listings were the magazines produced by Time, Inc. as well as Forbes. The contracts for these acquisitions were exclusive to EBSCO for the library "marketspace." |
Information Today
June 30, 2011 |
Serials Solutions Developing New Web-Scale Management Solution The new Serials Solutions service will address the industry's fundamental shift to electronic content, while still supporting librarians' needs to manage their print and local collections. |
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January 24, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Top Vendors' Announcements Reflect Familiar Themes at ALA Midwinter Meeting Library funding issues took center stage at ALA Midwinter, along with topics from vendors such as continued commitment to library-only products and services, continued coverage of traditional content, and enhancements of existing products and services. |
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June 19, 2008
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Dialog: Predictions and Reactions With the sale of Dialog to ProQuest, the big questions remain. Can ProQuest do better than Dialog's previous owners? |
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January 16, 2014 |
ProQuest Enhances Multimedia Discovery ProQuest's new Video Preservation and Discovery Service is designed to make it easier for university library patrons to find and access an institution's multimedia collections. |
