Citation
(2003), "ProQuest expands", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 31 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.2003.12231aab.011
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
ProQuest expands
ProQuest expands
ProQuest has announced agreements with both John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and Palgrave Macmillan, Ltd to add many new titles to the database. ProQuest will also expand access to backfiles of key business journals. As I was writing this Miscellany, the company announced yet another agreement, this one with Kluwer. The deal will enhance the content of ABI/INFORM which will now contain about 2.3 million documents that date to 1971. The database currently offers 1,752 titles, 1,022 of which are in full-text form. With the new content agreements, the file will grow to more than 1,900 titles, with nearly 1,200 in full text. (There is one wrinkle, however. The three publishers that are providing content to ABI/INFORM all have a 12-month embargo on the inclusion of their full text.) In 2001 ProQuest added 176,000 index records to the ABI/INFORM Global file; it expects to add 185,000 in 2002 and 203,000 in 2003. In addition to its availability in a number of incarnations on the ProQuest system, the file is also available through Dialog (File 15), DataStar, STN, and OCLC FirstSearch. Content from the new agreements will also flow into the vendor-supplied versions.
Source: Paula J. Hane in Newslink, Issue 36, October 2002.