ANN ARBOR, Mich., February 20, 2009 - ProQuest is pleased to announce that the full suite of ProQuest Central products is now available to members of the Institute of Information Science (IZUM) throughout the Republic of Slovenia through a special subscription arrangement, significantly expanding access to scholarly content. ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated full-text database in the market today totaling more than 11,600 titles - with over 8,700 titles in full text.

“ProQuest is committed to developing resources that meet the needs of many types of users around the world, and helping users to discover the right piece of information to transform their research” said Mary Sauer-Games, Vice President of Higher Education Publishing for ProQuest. “The breadth of content in ProQuest Central is perfectly suited to meet the information needs of IZUM’s growing community of university, high school and special libraries.  We’re pleased to partner with IZUM to support their mission to expand their access to high quality content.”

Dr. Marta Seljak, Assistant Director of IZUM responded, “We are absolutely delighted to be working together with ProQuest on this educational resource with so much research potential. This agreement is exciting in both enabling access to content for academics, and also in helping subscribing institutions throughout Slovenia attract the best researchers from around the globe.”

From primary scholarly journals, popular trade publications, company reports and dissertations, newspapers, newsletters and newswires, ProQuest Central provides global coverage of a wide range of disciplines. ProQuest Central also provides full-text content from the world’s top publishers, including full-text titles from Cambridge University Press, Dow Jones and many more. Current and international content is provided in over 160 subject areas including business and economics, medical and health, news and world affairs, science, education, technology, humanities, social sciences, psychology, literature, law and women’s studies.

While ProQuest Central provides access to millions of much-coveted full text articles from thousands of scholarly journals, it also provides access to information not available in other aggregated resources such as:

• Over 550 full text U.S., Canadian and international newspapers including exclusive access to the full text of The Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times
• Nearly 30,000 full text dissertations in the areas of business, psychology, physical sciences, health, education and more, helping end users build a more robust results set
• Concise business information from nearly 9,000 market reports across 43 industries in 40 countries, spanning the UK, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Asia Pacific, North America, and Latin America
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Working Papers – featuring more than 22,000 draft works of major research from around the world
• More than 300 nursing training videos from Medcom, Inc., a leading producer and distributor of multi-media healthcare education, on assessment, procedure, care management, anatomy, prevention, and other nursing topics

ProQuest Central’s strengths lie not only in its dynamic content, but in the sophisticated content indexing and platform features. The award-winning ‘Smart Search’ facility helps researchers find the very best results possible through features such as “Find more documents like this”. This functionality allows researchers to navigate ProQuest Central quickly and easily. ProQuest Central resides on the award-winning ProQuest® classic platform allowing cross-searching capabilities with other ProQuest databases empowering end users to get the most out of their research experience. The collection includes access to technology enhancements such as RSS feeds, article alerts and reference linking capabilities that allow researchers to keep up-to-date.

The IZUM license agreement follows a successful National License Agreement in Bulgaria for ProQuest Central, giving access to all universities, colleges and national academies in Bulgaria.

The Institute of Information Science (IZUM): The Institute of Information Science (IZUM) is a public institution established by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia as an information infrastructural service for Slovenian science, culture and education. Along with other agents of information activities in the country, it ensures Slovenia an entrance to the streams of the modern world's information society. This defines its mission; its functions are specified in the Foundation Act, passed by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia. According to the Research and Development Act, it is defined as a public infrastructural institution and registered as a research organisation as well. According to the Librarianship Act, it is defined as a library information service in the COBISS.SI national bibliographic system.  Members of the Slovenian IZUM include the University of Ljubliana, University of Maribor, University of Primorska, 12 autonomous high schools and 70 special libraries

About ProQuest
ProQuest creates specialized information resources and technologies that propel successful research, discovery, and lifelong learning. A global leader in serving libraries of all types, ProQuest offers the expertise of such respected brands as Chadwyck-Healey™, UMI®, SIRS®, and eLibrary®. With Serials Solutions®, Ulrich's™, RefWorks®, COS™, Dialog® and now Bowker® part of the ProQuest brand family, the company supports the breadth of the information community with innovative discovery solutions that power the business of books and the best in research experience.

More than a content provider or aggregator, ProQuest is an information partner, creating indispensable research solutions that connect people and information. Through innovative, user-centered discovery technology, ProQuest offers billions of pages of global content that includes historical newspapers, dissertations, and uniquely relevant resources for researchers of any age and sophistication—including content not likely to be digitized by others. Inspired by its customers and their end users, ProQuest is working toward a future that blends information accessibility with community to further enhance learning and encourage lifelong enrichment.

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