Support : eNewsletters : ProQuest IQ : Issue 5, September 2011

SEPTEMBER 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.

The value of Hoover's™ Company Records as provided by ProQuest just got even better!

With the announcement of the addition of Hoover's™ Company Records to Serials Solution Summon™ Service, researchers now have access to thorough and up-to-date business information on their projects. Featuring profiles of more than 40,000 companies, 600 industries and 225,000 key executives, Hoover's Company Records is one of the world's leading electronic distributors of information about U.S. and global companies, industries, and the people who lead them.

Searchers can link to Hoover's Company Records from the text of articles mentioning companies with Hoover's profiles, directly to the Hoover's Company profile for that company.

The Hoover's indexed records in Summon™ match up with some 40,000 full-text company profiles available for Hoover's Company Records via ProQuest (also visible within ABI/INFORM^® and ProQuest Entrepreneurship). This is because the Hoover's records in Summon are — as are approximately 400 Million other records — provided from ProQuest.

Pulling up shaky numbers? Get on solid ground with two new ProQuest statistical products

Statistics drive business decisions. How big is the market? Who owns market share? How much will it cost? Some of the statistics in a business case are internally generated. Others come from external sources. For one set of numbers you can rely on your finance department; for the other you can rely on ProQuest.

Finding statistics is difficult and can take hours of digging. No, you won't find just what you need on recent data from the open Web. Usually your questions are very specific — overtime pay in the aerospace industry, number of athletic shoes purchased by households annually. It seems the data is nowhere to be found. Data collection is expensive and there has to be a financial or legal reason to collect it. Over and over again the numbers are for broader, rather than narrower concepts — you want drug stores by county, but the available data shows health and personal care stores by country.

Two new products from ProQuest can bring you hero status in your company:

• ProQuest^® Statistical Insight enables you to search across content compiled from thousands of reliable public domain and licensed sources, whether the information is found in tables, statistical reports, publication abstracts or datasets. Includes:
  • Economic indicators for every country in the world — and U.S. states and regions
  • Business outlook surveys of government and industry experts
  • Salary and benefits data by industry and occupation
  • Market share
• ProQuest^® Statistical DataSets, available alone or as part of ProQuest Statistical Insight, is a Web-based research solutions agent that lets you build your own statistical charts and tables. It is a unique data visualization and analysis tool that can help pose the "why?" questions and provide the right answers.

ProQuest names Kurt Sanford CEO

Kurt Sanford, a highly experienced information services executive, joined ProQuest as CEO and as a member of its Board of Directors July 13, 2011, succeeding Marty Kahn, who became Vice Chairman of ProQuest's Board of Directors. Mr. Sanford spent the last 14 years at LexisNexis, serving most recently as President, Global Operations for its global legal business.

Of the new appointment, Marty Kahn said, "Our Company has made great strides in expanding our offerings and service for librarians and information professionals, with a strong focus on understanding the needs of researchers as they advance through their education and professional life. ProQuest will be in great hands with Kurt, who brings outstanding expertise in the global information industry, including a deep background in leveraging technology that will serve ProQuest well. Kurt has the ideal background to take ProQuest to the next level."

ebrary offers new Six Sigma package and adds over 3,000 e-books for purchase

ebrary is pleased to offer a new Six Sigma package to corporate libraries! They may pick and choose among more than 120 e-books from publishers such as CRC Press, Wiley, and Springer, or purchase the entire selection.

» Preview the Six Sigma selection

Additionally, in August ebrary added more than 3,000 e-books spanning all industries from AMACOM, Elsevier, The Emerald Group, Kogan Page, IT Governance, and other leading publishers to its growing catalog of over 251,200 titles for purchase.

» Preview all newly added titles

» Preview all titles for purchase

For more information on ebrary, contact your Dialog account manager or click here.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses adds new publishing partners

New institutions that began publishing dissertations in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses in 2011 include

• International Baptist Theological Seminary (IBTS) (Czech Republic)
• The Open University Israel
• Institute of Applied Social Sciences University of Warsaw
• Business School of Lausanne

ISNI Unique Author Identifier project for PQDT authors underway

ProQuest is moving forward with a project to assign International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI) numbers to dissertation and thesis authors from the last 10 years. ISNI is a method of identifying the public identities of contributors to media content, including books, newspaper articles and other types of publications. Dissertations and theses titles submitted to PQDT are already assigned ISBN numbers, but the ISNI will provide another useful tool for distinguishing names that might otherwise be confused.

The ISNI will allow a single identity to be identified using a unique number.

ebrary e-content to be discoverable through the ProQuest platform

The latest issue of ProQuest Technology Newsletter describes how the best of ProQuest and ebrary is coming together on the all-new ProQuest platform. Later this year, the integration will allow for a simultaneous search of ebrary's rapidly growing selection of more than a quarter of a million books along with ProQuest's highly diverse content. Searchers will be able to connect to full text from the Results screen, moving directly through ebrary's powerful search engine — and they'll have access to both platforms' cutting-edge research tools. See a preview of the integration of ebrary with the new platform.

If you haven't already done so, sign up to receive Technology News on the new ProQuest Platform.

Getting started on the new platform? Take a Webinar to gain command

Whether you're in the process of migrating or you're just getting beyond the basics, take advantage of free training Webinars so you can spend more time on the answers than on searching. From "Managing Your Migration," to "Introduction to the New ProQuest Platform," to "Advanced Searching: Beyond the Single Search Box," to "My Research," you'll find the hour spent learning pays you back in confidence and efficiency. Are you the administrator of your company's ProQuest account? Take the seminar on "ProQuest Administrator Module."

Do you search Dialog as well as ProQuest? Discover ProQuest Dialog™ by taking a Webinar including "Introduction to the New ProQuest Dialog Service," "Developing ProQuest Dialog Search Expertise" or "Essential Tools for Research on ProQuest Dialog." ProQuest Dialog also offers a host of short self-guided modules covering specific features, such as "ProQuest Dialog Basic Search," "ProQuest Dialog Advanced Search," and "New Features in ProQuest Dialog."

Read what ProQuest customers are saying about the new platform

Elizabeth Ten Have, director of library academic partnerships at Drexel University Libraries, and her team participated in testing the new ProQuest Platform. She reported on her experience, providing evaluations and conclusions in a recent article in Searcher. Read why she feels that the new platform "reduces a significant set of barriers to important research and scholarly content by providing a simple, yet sophisticated search engine and interface, with access to a robust set of management tools." Searcher, March 2011.

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