Louise Peck, Strategic Marketing
Manager

Agenda
• What is aggregation?
• ProQuest’s aggregated databases
• ProQuest departments – who does what?
• New directions: content types other than journals

What is Aggregation?
Definition
The combined content from any number of licensed or unlicensed sources into a common searchable location
The need: Aggregation is Changing
• Aggregations are evolving
• Aggregations are expanding beyond periodicals
The value in ProQuest aggregated databases
• Large full-text periodical collections
• Powerful and intuitive platform
• Proprietary and third-party A+I
• Combined into a single subscription package
• ProQuest provides more specialist tools in subject niches
(e.g. ProQuest Entrepreneurship )
• New information sources from ProQuest are becoming important
(e.g. evidence-based nursing, dissertations, case studies)

Where Does ProQuest Add Value?
For the Librarian
Superb value
- Supplies economies of scale: bundling databases can give more choice and discounts
- Improves and extends level of user access to different sources
Easy to administer
- Everything in one place
- Supplies additional quality and breadth to complements your existing ejournal collection
Easy to maintain
- Ongoing Service , Support and Training
Dynamic
- Updated throughout the year
- Supports diverse range of users (academic researchers, lecturers, practitioners, corporate users, general public)
- Full-text access also available from other platforms via link outs (PubMed, Ovid etc.)
Save Time: Save Space: Save Money
For Researchers
Easy to use
• Where to start searching? Important content might be missed
• Allows researchers to perform very broad search
• Provides a critical mass to help answer most questions
• Broad coverage, Top titles , multiple subjects
• Maximises potential of the Literature Review process
• Delivered on ProQuest platform: the platform of choice for researchers

Where Does ProQuest Add Value?
For Publisher Partners
• ProQuest complements journal and e-journal subscriptions
• Reach users who wouldn’t otherwise use content
• Aggregation use is different from e-journal use or printjournal use
• 95% of searches are subjectbased – not title-specific
• Publications appearing in aggregation lead to improved citations
Save Time: Save Space: Save Money

Content Editorial Policy
• Broad, international subject coverage
• Embargoes kept to a minimum
• Key titles, as identified by industry lists including
– the library community
• 2006 “Key titles” study in JMLA, Florida Uni study
• Harzing Scores
– the research community
• Impact factors and Eigenfactors
– the nursing community
• Journals reviewed by ACP Journal Club, Brandon Hill Nursing and
Allied Health lists, Core Collection lists, usage within ProQuest
– our advisory boards

ProQuest Subjects
• Arts
• Business
• Genealogy
• General Reference
• Health Sciences
• History
• Literature
• Newspapers
• Science and
Technology
• Social Sciences and
Education
• And more

ProQuest’s Databases
ABI/INFORM ® Complete
• Business and management database
• Established more than 35 years ago
• Market-leading abstracting and indexing
– Over 35 searchable fields
• Over 4,000 journals indexed
• Over 3,000 in full-text
• Information on:
– business conditions
– management techniques
– business trends
– management practice and theory
– corporate strategy and tactics
– competitive landscape etc. etc.

ProQuest’s Databases
ProQuest Medical Library
• 660+ current full-text journals, 1006 total
• Clinical guidance
• MEDLINE-indexed
• High impact factor titles
• Journals selected on Hague Core Collection,
Brandon Hill, Florida State,
• Used by clinicians, nurses, health workers, researchers, students, administrators, managers and allied health professionals
• Available in hospitals, medical schools, academic research departments and health authorities worldwide

ProQuest’s Databases
ProQuest Nursing and
Allied Health Source
• For nursing and allied health practitioners and students
• A+I for more than 834 titles
• 700+ titles in full-text
• Nursing dissertations, evidence-based nursing resources, cultural competency in health, multimedia content, nursing reference ebooks, recommended reading

ProQuest’s Departments
All these departments contribute to product development and product support:
Publishing and product management
Customer
Services
Global Content
Alliances
IT and IS
Software; User
Experience team
Content
Operations
Project management team

Publishing and Product Management
• Manage P+L for respective business strands
• Identify product strategy over coming 3 to 5 years
• Make the case for new projects and upgrades: create concept documents, business cases, specification documents
• Make the case for investment in specific content, specific publishers
• Product champion - respond to information requests from
Sales, Marketing, Customer Service and across all departments etc.

Global Content Alliances
• Lead negotiations with publishing companies
• Negotiate and finalise contracts
• Manage and communicate overall spend by the business
• Manage information feeds from publishers
• Create bibliographic records for management within
ProQuest eg Title List System

Content Operations
• Set up and manage feeds from publishers; chase content and missing issues
• Manage “manufacture” of full-text content
– From scanning individual pages to untangling e-feeds
• Manage creation of A+I records – citation, abstract etc.; creation and updating of subject thesauri; managing thirdparty A+I
• Design metadata spec for new materials

Full Text Dissertations
• Thousands of full text dissertations
• Major subject areas are included:
• Business
• Psychology
• Physical Therapy
• Education
• ..and more!
ProQuest has over 2.5 million bibliographic records for dissertations and theses with over 1 million in full text

SSRN Working Papers
• Thousand of scholarly working papers from Social Science Research Network
(SSRN)
• Working papers provide cutting edge information in business trends months or years before they appear in the final publication
• Working papers often provide more information than the final edited article
ProQuest is the only library vendor offering SSRN Working Papers

Unique Content • Clinical Guidance
Information for users in a clinical context looking for treatment information quickly
Created by senior clinical authors: provides an “expert perspective”
• Clinical References
– guide of treatment options
• Treatment Strategies
– focus on management of disease
• Checklists
– helps users make or confirm diagnoses
Exclusive aggregator content from PocketMedicine

Unique Content • Medical Evidence
Matters
• A user-friendly system to help choose the best therapy options for a specific patient with a confirmed diagnosis
• Retrieve the peer-reviewed research results that help you understand how effective different therapy options are
• Summary graphs and tables allow you to see at a glance the evidence on therapy effectiveness and safety
• Up-to-date to include the very latest research
Unique ProQuest content

• Visual representation
• Graph template applies for many different outcomes
• Range of study types

Unique Content • Evidence-Based
The Joanna Briggs
Institute (JBI)
Full text content:
• Evidence
Summaries
• Systematic
Reviews
• Best Practice
Information
Exclusive aggregator content from JBI

What Else is Available?
ProQuest users are also be given access to two tools on JBI’s own platform:
RAPid is an on-line critical appraisal of evidence training program
SUMARI is a developing software package designed to assist health and other researchers and practitioners to conduct systematic reviews.
Users will be authenticated through to the JBI platform by clicking on a
JBI logo provided on the ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source database
Exclusive aggregator content from JBI

Unique Content • CultureVision
• Extensive reports based on exhaustive reviews of scholarly literature and government reports
• Written by CultureVision’s researchers
• Reports for 30 ethnicities and 11 religions
• Updated monthly
• Includes insight and guidance to raise awareness of cultural beliefs and practices
• Facilitates understanding to avoid cultural misunderstandings and improve outcomes
Unique aggregator content from CultureVision

Unique Content • Reference Books
• Key nursing reference books, indexed by chapter, from multiple providers, including:
• Encyclopedia of Nursing Research (Springer Publishing Company)
• Teaching Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing: A Guide for Academic and Clinical (Springer Publishing Company)
• Evidence-Based Competency series (HCPro)
• Critical Thinking series (HCPro)
• And more
Unique aggregator content from the Springer Publishing Company and
HCPro

Medical Ebooks
• Over 10,000 health and medical ebooks available and cross searchable on the
ProQuest platform

Unique Content in Nursing -
Training Videos
Video clips from multiple providers on nursing assessment, procedure, care management, anatomy, prevention, and other nursing topics
Unique aggregator content from MedCom and HCPro

Multi-media Content in Business
Video clips of educators and business professionals enhance search results by providing access to real-world experiences in ProQuest Entrepreneurship
Many video clips can be downloaded for reference or to present in the classroom

Business Monitor International (BMI)
NEW to ABI/INFORM in 09
• 682 country focused
Industry Reports
• 25 Regional Insights
• Average length: 60 pages
• Not embargoed
• Country focused
• Most have monthly updates
• Plus Corporate
Financing Weekly
Highly sought country-focused industry reports – filled with most current insights and data, most updated monthly

Oxford Analytica – OxResearch
NEW to ABI/INFORM in 09
Daily Briefing Service
• 30,000 objective & multidisciplinary articles
• Compiled by international network of over 1,000 experts and scholars
• Economic, political and geographical data
• Cover worldwide developments of significance in more than 180 countries
• Consistent format: events, significance, analysis, conclusion
• Date back to 1986
Country Profiles
• Brief overviews for 63 countries

EIU ViewsWire Reports – timely reports in ABI/INFORM
ProQuest is the preferred provider of
EIU ViewsWire
• Over 205,000 reports - 12,000+ produced in 2008 with business intelligence on 203 countries
• Analytical briefings o Country Alerts - briefings on worldwide key market developments o Country Views - assessments and forecasts of changing market conditions and the implications for business o Country Background - facts and figures on the local market and regulatory environment
• Daily updates ensure timely information

Market Research Reports in ABI/INFORM
ProQuest is indexing market research reports and articles, and continues to add more!
Market Research
• 18,000+ articles and 1,400+ reports
Includes SWOT Analyses, Company profiles and Industry overviews
– Just-Auto
– Just-Style
– Just-Drinks
– Just-Food
– More to come…
Market Research Reports support all disciplines of business research…
• Can replace expensive reports that cannot be previewed and need to be purchased on a case-by-case basis

Market Data in ProQuest
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship supplies the raw data that entrepreneurs find useful in evaluating market opportunities
9,000+ market reports across 43 industries in 40 countries
Profiles for 40,000+ companies, in 600 industries, and 225,000 key executives

Newspapers – Historical and Current
1851-2005

Arts and Humanities
Example Content
Historical Periodicals
Periodical Archive Online & British Periodicals
Multimedia
The Paley Center Seminars
Early Modern Books
EEBO
Official Correspondence
Documents on British Policy Overseas
Printed Ephemera
The John Johnson Collection
Colour maps
Colonial State Papers

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Any Questions?