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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. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today July 13, 2009 Marydee Ojala |
ProQuest Proposes Pathway to New Platform ProQuest announced an "all-new platform" that would "redefine the search experience for library users around the world." The platform, which is as yet unnamed, will be introduced sometime in the first half of 2010. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today April 26, 2012 |
Serials Solutions Announces Intota Development Partners Serials Solutions, a ProQuest business unit, announced the institutions that are collaborating with the company to develop Intota, a Software-as-a-Service solution that supports the entire resource lifecycle for libraries. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today June 3, 2010 |
Serials Solutions Developing Access Control Service Access Control Service will simplify the process of accessing library resources from remote locations, combine data management with access control, and eliminate the current requirement for IT resources to implement and manage this service. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today November 10, 2015 |
ProQuest Plans New Ebook Acquisition Model ProQuest will pilot a new ebook acquisition model, Access-to-Own, which applies budget money spent on title rentals to perpetual purchases. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today May 15, 2008 |
ProQuest Hospital Collection Makes Its Debut The new ProQuest Hospital Collection has five health and medicine databases and includes full-text articles from 2,100 medical journals. |
Information Today December 3, 2009 |
Serials Solutions Completes Beta Testing of New 360 Search The new service, which will be commercially released in mid-December, combines the best features of the Serials Solutions 360 Search and WebFeat platforms with new and improved capabilities. |
Information Today January 28, 2013 |
New ProQuest Congressional Service Unveiled ProQuest unveiled its new ProQuest Congressional, which has been rebuilt with an all-new technological framework that supports richer, more in-depth exploration, and expanded use of its unique content. |
Information Today 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 14, 2008 |
ProQuest Announces Aggregated Full-Text Database for Libraries ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, has launched a new aggregated full-text database for libraries called ProQuest Central. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today November 16, 2009 |
Serials Solutions Announces New Ebooks Metadata Normalization Process To enable normalization of ebooks metadata, Serials Solutions metadata librarians have developed algorithms that efficiently aggregate and authoritatively link data from all available sources. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today November 26, 2007 |
Serials Solutions Launches 360 Counter Assessment Service Designed to help libraries evaluate the usage and cost of e-resources, Serials Solutions announced the launch of the 360 Counter e-resource assessment service. |
Information Today 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. |
Information Today 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? |
Information Today July 25, 2011 |
Serials Solutions Releases Coverage Analysis of Summon Discovery Service Serials Solutions released a new list of key databases and packages, as well as updated comprehensive lists of the serials titles and publishers available in the Summon index, providing librarians with even greater visibility into the quality content indexed in the Summon service. |
Information Today December 8, 2008 |
Serials Solutions Launches Online Community The community features forums, discussion boards, private messaging, RSS feeds, and more. |
Information Today 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 May 5, 2015 |
ProQuest Is Set to Acquire Coutts Information Services ProQuest will acquire Coutts Information Services Ltd. from Ingram Content Group. |
Information Today December 3, 2013 |
Intota Assessment Streamlines Library Analytics Intota Assessment gives libraries a total picture of their monographs and serials in electronic and print formats so they can make data-driven decisions about collection development. |
Information Today November 11, 2002 Paula J. Hane |
ProQuest Co. Announces Management Shake-Up On October 29, ProQuest Co. announced a change in management and a reorganization that creates a new business unit within the company. |
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 |
Information Today June 23, 2011 |
New Additions to the Summon Discovery Service From Serials Solutions Serials Solutions, a business unit of ProQuest LLC, announced an agreement with Bridgeman Education to enable discovery of Bridgeman's vast visual arts collection from the Summon web-scale discovery service. |
Information Today June 24, 2014 |
Boopsie and ProQuest Offer Mobile App Integration Boopsie for Libraries partnered with ProQuest's eLibrary product team to integrate Boopsie's mobile apps with eLibrary's resources. |
Information Today December 22, 2008 |
Pilot Grant Program to Improve Internet Connections in Public Libraries The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a pilot initiative designed to help public libraries in seven states secure faster internet connections so more people can access a full range of online applications and opportunities. |
Information Today April 14, 2011 |
ALA Releases 'The State of America's Libraries, 2011' The Great Recession may have come to an end, but hard-pressed Americans continue to turn to their local libraries for help in finding a job or launching their own business. This is one trend listed in the report. |
Information Today 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. |
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. |
Information Today June 5, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest ebrary Launches New Corporate E-Book Databases... ProQuest Introduces Newspaper Printing Service for Libraries... EOS Upgrades... etc. |
Information Today June 18, 2012 |
ebrary Releases Extended Access Extended Access reduces up-front costs to the library, eliminates speculative purchases of multiple copies, and prevents turn-aways when titles are in use. |
Information Today October 1, 2009 |
ProQuest Launches New Public Health Resource ProQuest Public Health covers a wide range of disciplines, from biological sciences and social sciences to health economics |
Information Today June 13, 2013 |
ProQuest Dialog Launches With Enhanced Features ProQuest, LLC debuted its revamped Dialog service at the Special Libraries Association conference on June 10. |
Information Today August 11, 2008 |
Serials Solutions to Offer ebrary Titles Through KnowledgeWorks This provider of econtent services and technology has announced that it has become the first ebook provider to become Serials Solutions KnowledgeWorks Certified. |
Information Today October 25, 2012 |
Serials Solutions' E-Resource Manager Adds JISC Collections License Data Serials Solutions, a ProQuest company, is working with JISC Collections to save librarians time and to increase access to the licenses negotiated by JISC Collections for NESLi2, databases, and archives. |
Information Today September 8, 2015 |
ProQuest Makes More Early European Books Available ProQuest launched Collection 7, the newest part of its Early European Books database, with 7,450 titles. |