What’s new in ProQuest Central?
Australia & New Zealand
Content added 2014
General Highlights
Journals
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
130 new news and current affairs sources including:
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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
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Hundreds of curriculum aligned training videos added from National Institute for Health and
INTELECOM Sociology Video Collection
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
8 new scholarly journals in active full text from the region have been added including Journal of New
Zealand Literature and Australian Journal of Business and Management Research.
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 > Australia. Fall 2014, updated quarterly. Oxford Economics
Australia: Information Technology Report Q4 2014 and Australia: Telecoms Report Q3 2014.
Business Monitor International
New Zealand: Key developments (Sep 2014) and Australia: Basic Data (Sep 2014). Economist
intelligence Unit Viewswire
CountryData Australia September 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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A Multivariate Investigation of the Volatilities and Co-Volatilities of Equity Markets between
Australia and Three Major Asian Pacific Equity Markets. Budd, Bruce Q. SSRN Working Paper
Series, Aug 2014.
Topological resiliency analysis of the Australian electricity grid with increased penetration of
renewable resources. Akter, Most Nahida; Nasiruzzaman, A B M; Mahmud, Md Apel; Pota, H R.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Conference Proceedings. (Jun 2014).
Coming Soon to ProQuest Central
We continue to grow our resources in the region, with almost 60 publications from 16 publishers from
the region signed and waiting to load. 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.