CAMBRIDGE, United Kingdom, September 14, 2005 - ProQuest Information and Learning has signed a deal with Oxford Economic Forecasting to distribute key reports to the academic markets worldwide. These reports are used by prominent companies and financial institutions around the world and provide in-depth analysis of political and economic developments to assist business decisions.

Oxford Economic Forecasting was founded in 1981 to provide independent forecasting and analysis tailored to the needs of business economists and planners. Its services cover both the international economy, the UK and the US, and range from regular reports and business seminars to user-friendly PC-based econometric models. 

The OEF economic prospects reports provide in-depth analysis of developments and prospects in major global and emerging economies allowing businesses and researches around the world to keep up-to-date with key trends.

“Oxford Economic Forecasting is an extremely valuable publishing partner because of the quality of the content they bring to ProQuest,” said Todd Fegan, Vice-President of Publishing, ProQuest. “We are delighted to have this extensive set of titles and the excellent information on business trends they provide .”

“We wanted to find a partner that had considerable knowledge and expertise in the higher education market to enable us to achieve our objective of reaching the business decision makers of the future”, said Adrian Cooper, Managing Director of Oxford Economic Forecasting. “We are delighted to appoint ProQuest in that role”.

The agreement between ProQuest and Oxford Economic Forecasting brings a total of 11 OEF publications, which will be made available to libraries through a variety of ProQuest's business databases including its acclaimed ABI/INFORM Global.

Publications that will be offered through ProQuest include World Economic Prospects, Emerging Markets Economic Outlook , International Industrial Prospects, World Economic Prospects Monthly Review, Emerging Markets Watch, Commodity Price Monitor, International Industrial Prospects Monthly Review, US Weekly Brief, Euro Zone Weekly Brief, UK Weekly Brief and Hilfe Economic Briefings.

ProQuest is renowned for its vast, accessible journal, newspaper and periodical databases. Continually expanding, ProQuest periodical databases grew by more than 1000 new newspaper and magazines in 2004. Well over 16,000 periodicals are now available through its products and more than 8,000 are full-text.

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