CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, March 11, 2004 - Through our UMI brand, ProQuest Information and Learning is pleased to introduce the OWL Collections, the most comprehensive collections of World Literature available on microfilm.

The OWL Collections, previously known as the OmniSys Collections, make accessible through microform and microfiche a significant number of titles including incunabula and brittle books. This series of collections hold close to 100,000 titles dating from 1375 from over 26 countries worldwide, and cover a wide range of subjects, including drama, literature, exploration, science and religion. Over this year, improved finding tools and new releases are also being added, making access to this rare content easier than ever before.

The OWL Collections is part of our larger effort to preserve important collections from all over the world and to make them available to libraries and scholars.

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