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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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March 26, 2012 |
ebrary Announces New Strategic Approach to Ebook Acquisition To help libraries meet the research needs of their entire institutions and maximize their budgets, ebrary, a ProQuest business, announced a new approach to ebook acquisition |
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January 31, 2013
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Adds Ebook Library (EBL) to Its Collection ProQuest signed an agreement to acquire Ebook Library from Australia-based Ebooks Corp. Ltd. After the transfer is completed over the next few weeks, Ebook Library will begin its merger with ebrary, acquired by ProQuest in 2011. |
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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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April 30, 2012 |
ebrary Announces New Ebook Solution for Medical Libraries The new, discounted packs include essential ebooks from publishers such as Informa Healthcare, F.A. Davis Company, and Oxford University Press that are purchased outright under a perpetual archive model. |
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January 26, 2012 |
ebrary Ships New Mobile App; Integrates with Baker & Taylor's Title Source 3 With ebrary's new app, researchers can access content on the ebrary platform, including ebooks that their librarians acquire from leading publishers and documents uploaded and integrated by librarians with DASH! or Data Sharing, Fast. |
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November 18, 2014 |
APA Ebooks Are Now Available From ebrary The American Psychological Association signed an agreement with ebrary (a ProQuest business) to make 250-plus ebooks available through ebrary's platform. |
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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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February 3, 2015 |
ProQuest Extends LC Partnership; Reveals Details About New Ebook Platform ProQuest became a partner in the Library of Congress' Electronic Cataloging in Publication and BIBCO programs, allowing the company to assist in preparing prepublication metadata for digital products. |
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September 27, 2012 |
Two Centuries Later, The Annual Register Is an Ebook The Annual Register has been a "go-to" for librarians who value its year-by-year record of both major and minor world events, with text hearty enough to satisfy serious researchers and straightforward enough to answer a general query. |
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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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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 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. |
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October 2008
Britt & Bauer |
ProQuest: Adding Dialog to the Mix The history and development ProQuest and its acquisition of Dialog, including Dialog's ProQuest unit. |
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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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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. |
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September 18, 2014 |
ProQuest Offers Ebooks Through Irish Bookseller ProQuest's ebook division teamed up with the Irish bookseller O'Mahony's to deliver content to institutions in Ireland and the U.K. |
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June 11, 2012 |
ebrary Announces New Android App ebrary's Android and iOS apps work with ebooks acquired under all of ebrary's acquisition models including the 75,000 titles available through Academic Complete, the industry's first and only aggregated ebook subscription to be designated as a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. |
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June 3, 2010
Barbara Quint |
Public Library Complete (PLC) from ebrary Offers Ebooks and More This includes includes more than 20,000 ebooks from leading publishers with more ebooks coming into the package every day-at no additional cost to subscribing libraries. |
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June 19, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Whither Dialog? ProQuest Takes the Reins of the Venerable Search Service Before there was a Google, before there was a World Wide Web, before there was an internet, there was Dialog. |
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August 6, 2012 |
ebrary Enhances Strategic Ebook Acquisition Program for Public Libraries To enable public libraries to affordably and strategically meet the nonfiction ebook needs of patrons, ebrary, a ProQuest business, added more than 9,000 new titles from publishers including Bentham Science and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt across acquisition models. |
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May 5, 2015 |
ProQuest Is Set to Acquire Coutts Information Services ProQuest will acquire Coutts Information Services Ltd. from Ingram Content Group. |
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November 12, 2013 |
ProQuest and OCLC Automate WorldCat Updates OCLC and ProQuest are collaborating on an automation process for updating holdings from ebrary and EBL (Ebook Library) and offering current links in the WorldCat database and in library catalogs. |
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May 5, 2011 |
ebrary Launches Usage-Triggered Model for Short-Term Loans Currently in beta, this model provides libraries with all of the benefits of traditional short-term loans with the added advantage of only paying if titles are used. |
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January 6, 2015 |
The U.K. and Ireland Get Their Own Academic Complete ebrary (a ProQuest business) rolled out a new edition of its Academic Complete subscription database that is designed for researchers in the U.K. and Ireland. |
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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. |
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January 10, 2005
Paula J. Hane |
ebrary Announces New Technology, Custom Collections, and Partnerships ebrary uses its technology to create online databases of content from leading publishers, which it then licenses to libraries and other institutions. Now, with Isaac, ebrary is taking the next step in allowing any library or other institution to license its technology, not just its content. |
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September 4, 2007 |
ebrary Ebooks Now Available Through YBP Library Services The two companies have integrated ebrary's platform and its ebooks with the GOBI system, providing an easy and efficient way for libraries to preview, order, and manage ebrary titles along with their other print and digital holdings. |
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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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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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October 30, 2006 |
Weekly News Digest ProQuest to Sell Automotive Unit... ebrary Announces New Legal Collection... Search Through the OpenDOAR... |
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October 1, 2013
Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in Ebooks Just as books don't magically appear on library shelves, ebooks don't automatically pop up in a library's online catalog. Librarians work with ebook vendors to get econtent into the hands, or rather, onto the e-readers, of their patrons. |
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February 23, 2012 |
Social Media Data Available for ebrary Student E-book Survey ebrary, a ProQuest business, announced that the social media data of its 2011 Global Student E-book Survey is now publicly available online along with the full report. |
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February 28, 2013 |
RosettaBooks and ebrary Team Up RosettaBooks, an independent ebook publisher, and ebrary, a ProQuest business, announced three bundled film and fiction perpetual packages for libraries. |
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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. |
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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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April 11, 2013 |
Bowker, ebrary, and Choice Enhance Access to Resources for College Libraries Choice and Bowker, whose unique partnership created RCL, have launched a variety of enhancements which are used by academic libraries to identify core titles for scores of academic subject areas. |
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November 6, 2008 |
ebrary Offers a QuickView for Documents ebrary announced the availability of ebrary QuickView, which enables end users to instantly view documents in many of the leading web browsers. |
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March 4, 2002
Paula J. Hane |
ebrary Upgrades ebrarian, Secures Distribution Agreement with Amigos Just about 6 weeks after launching ebrarian 2.0 with some pilot library customers, ebrary has delivered on its promise to roll out version 2.1 globally to libraries within the first quarter of this year... |
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August 13, 2012 |
Elsevier Adds Ebooks to ebrary's Academic Complete This marks the first time that these Elsevier titles covering subjects such as mechanical engineering, chemical and process engineering, and civil engineering, as well as environmental energy and alternative energy, have ever been available under a subscription model. |
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April 22, 2013 |
Ingram Expands OASIS Library Platform Through EBL Collaboration Through the alliance with EBL, Ingram will add more than 325,000 EBL ebook titles to the OASIS platform, substantially growing the selection of econtent available to libraries. |
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December 26, 2006
Barbara Quint |
ProQuest Information and Learning Goes to CSA: What Now? ProQuest Information and Learning, the bulk of ProQuest Co., and one of the nation's oldest and largest database aggregators has been sold to Cambridge Information Group. |
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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. |
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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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January 14, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Fast Data Sharing With ebrary's DASH! The Academic Complete digital content collection from ebrary has proven to be a valued resource in many academic settings. |
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August 10, 2009 |
Transaction Publishers Distributes Ebooks Through ebrary The company announced that the new selection from Transaction, which can be seamlessly integrated with Academic Complete or any other ebrary product, features primarily new and recently published titles as well as select classic works by leading international figures in the social sciences. |
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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. |
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December 2000 |
ebrary Snags Key Investors for Pay-Per-Use Service ebrary, a company founded in February 1999 to establish an online research library, has announced an unprecedented joint investment by three leading publishing and information services companies: Random House, Inc., Pearson, and The McGraw-Hill Companies... |
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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 29, 2009 |
ebrary Gets a New UI and Greater Functionality Among other new features, ebrary's user interface offers chapter ranking of search results, QuickView for instant document viewing in a browser, and personalized bookshelves with folders for organizing and managing documents |
