What’s new in ProQuest Central?
USA
Content added 2014
General Highlights
We added 830 periodical titles in ongoing
full text to ProQuest Central across a
number of disciplines, including over 500
scholarly journals.
Business
Social Science
Medicine
General interest
Science
Arts & Humanities
Technology
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This content comes from publishers
including:
 Elsevier: 13 medical titles in ongoing FT including Immunity and Neuron
 Springer, Oxford University Press, Taylor & Francis
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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, working papers and conference
proceedings allow researchers 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 SSRN and OECD 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
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, with
new reports from 79 countries coming soon
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
Local Content
The active full text of 185 titles from USA and Canada have been added since January 2014, including 87
scholarly journals including 17 top ranked medical journals from Elsevier and 19 magazines including The
Week and Sight and Sound.
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 > United States. Summer 2014, updated quarterly. Oxford
Economics
United States Insurance Report - Q4 2014 and United States Defence & Security Report - Q4
2014. Business Monitor International
USA: Country outlook (Sep 2014) and USA: Basic data (Sep 2014). Economist Intelligence Unit
Viewswire
CountryData United States October 2014. 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 and conference proceedings and we continuously add these for the region.
Recent additions include:
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An Inspection Game Model of the Stolen Base in Baseball: A Theory of Theft. Turocy, Theodore.
SSRN Working Paper Series, Aug 2014.
Towards an understanding of Apple's success -- Conceptualising product-service-business
bundles. Riedel, Johann C K H. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Conference Proceedings. (Jun 2014).
New annual meeting proceedings series from Academy of International Business.
Coming Soon to ProQuest Central
We continue to grow our resources in the region, with almost 1000 publications from American and
Canadian publishers signed and waiting to load including Newstex and David Publishing Company.
In addition to the periodical content we are also working to greatly improve browse functionality for
business resources, as well as adding other vital research information including Times 100 Business Case
Studies.