CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, September 10, 2004 - ProQuest Information and Learning announces a new agreement to distribute the finance pages from Noticias Financieras, a newspaper service that spans Latin America.

Customers of ProQuest in Latin America will be able to access this new service through the ProQuest platform and search it seamlessly with their other ProQuest collections.

ProQuest Information and Learning, a unit of ProQuest Company, creates and publishes databases for libraries and educational institutions worldwide.

Noticias Financieras is a financial news service covering the Latin America region produced by IMS in association with the largest and most influential media and news organizations in the region. The service delivers content from 28 leading Latin American news sources and covers 10 countries, including Brazil , Chile , Columbia , Mexico and Peru .  Key sources include O Globo (Brazil), El Mercurio (Chile), Expansion (Mexico) and El Pais (Uruguay) and over 70% of the articles are available in the service by 8am EST on the day of publication.

Sergio Farias, ProQuest Information & Learning’s Regional Sales Director for Latin America said “The addition of Noticias Financieras to ProQuest greatly enhances the range of local content available to our Latin American customers and will give our Hispanic customers worldwide access to authoritative news coverage from a variety of leading news sources from every major country in Latin America”.

NoticiasFinancieras is available on subscription from ProQuest now.

For all media enquiries contact Gina Ghensi, Communications Manager, gina.ghensi@proquest.co.uk

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