What’s new in ProQuest Central?
Africa
Content added in the last 12 months. Updated May 2015.
New Local Content
There are over 160 titles published in Africa available in active full text in ProQuest Central. This number
includes 140 scholarly journals from publishers including Hindawi Publishing Coorporation and Galenos
Yayinevi; newspapers such as Durban Daily News and Johannesburg Star, and trade journals including
Finance Week.
We also continue to add the best in market and industry reports, forecasts, analysis and
data. Local examples include:
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By-Country Industry Forecasts > South Africa. Spring 2015, updated
quarterly. Oxford Economics
Angola Mining Report - Q3 2015 and Ghana Agribusiness Report – Q3
2015 Business Monitor International
South Africa: 3-month currency outlook. (Apr 24, 2015), and Egypt:
Country fact sheet. (May 11, 2015). Both from EIU Viewswire.
CountryData South Africa. (Apr 20 2015). EIU Country Data
Researchers worldwide continue to tell us how important it is to get the latest thinking in their field in
the form of working papers, dissertations, and conference proceedings and we continuously add these
from the region.
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Thousands of conference papers from the region have been added such as Marketing chain for
groundnuts in North Central Nigeria, Avanenge, Faajir. (Mar 2015, The Business & Management
Review) and The role of social influences, lifestyles and ease of use in adopting SMS advertising
in Egypt, Luxor, Fouad. (2015, Global Conference on Business & Finance Proceedings)
General Highlights
We added over 700 periodical titles in
ongoing full text to ProQuest Central across
a number of disciplines, including 430
scholarly journals.
Business
Social Science
Medicine
General interest
Science
Arts & Humanities
Technology
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This content comes from publishers
including:
 90 scholarly journals available in active full text from Springer Science and Business
Media including Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, Plant Molecular Biology
Reporter, and European Journal of Ageing
 Scholarly journals from other publishers including Oxford University Press, Nova
Science Publishers,
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130 new news and current affairs sources including:
 The China Daily and its sister publications
 27 newspapers and trade journals from Mclatchey
 Full coverage of The Week
 Hundreds of new curriculum aligned videos from the National Institute of Health
and INTELECOM Sociology Video Collection
With the peer review process taking up to 3 years, researchers also need to read the latest thinking in
their field long before it appears in a scholarly journal:
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Thousands of new working papers from OECD and other providers added across all subjects
bringing to total number to 165,000.
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New conference proceedings added from providers including European Conference on eGovernment and Academy of Business and Retail Management
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Thousands of full text dissertations and theses added across all disciplines bringing the total
number available in ProQuest Central to over 100,000
Resources for teaching:
 44 million company records from Experian providing company contact information, brief
financials and credit data, corporate linkages, and more
 1,000 reports from Euromonitor covering 85 industries and up to 18 segments
 Hundreds of curriculum aligned training videos added from National Institute for Health and
INTELECOM Sociology Video Collection
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Financial service industry reports from Economist Intelligence Unit covering 20 nations
Full coverage of 79 out of 200 of Economist Intelligence Unit’s Country Reports
An updated list of editorially selected alternatives to those HBR articles restricted in Ebsco
available with no restrictions in ProQuest
36,000 global annual reports from Reportal
Coming Soon:
Over 600,000K working papers including metadata and links from the highly prestigious National Bureau
of Economic Research and from RePEc.