IFLA 2010 – SVENSKA MASSAN, Gothenburg

6 Great Reasons to Visit ProQuest at IFLA 

Stand C210 

 

As well as helping you find the answers to all your research needs we’ll be giving you the opportunity to win a great prize, pick up some fun freebies and find out about the exciting developments that have been happening at ProQuest during the last year.

 

 

1. Win a Dell Netbook 

ProQuest invite you to Stand C210 to take part in our Pioneer Competition. Simply pick up a competition postcard, sign up to a newsletter, answer 3 questions and fill out your details - you will automatically be entered in to our Prize Draw.

 

The winner will be announced on Friday 13th August during our on stand Adopt a Student Welcome Reception between 16.30 – 17.30.

 

 

2. Pick up an Eco-Friendly Giveaway 

Visit the ProQuest stand and pick up some great environmentally friendly giveaways.

 

 

3. To find out about Exciting New Product Developments 

Recently ProQuest has launched some fantastic new products and made major enhancements to much-loved existing ones. Visit the stand to find out more about the following products:

 

 

 

The All-new ProQuest Platform. It started with you. 

You paved the way for the rollout of the all-new ProQuest platform. We worked with information professionals and end users to build the new platform from the ground up—incorporating the best of the familiar with new, exciting features and functionality found in many of our unparalleled resources.

 

The Right Tools. At the Right Time. In the Right Place.

 

The easy-to-learn platform will allow users at all levels to:

• Cross search a full spectrum of subject areas and topics for relevant, authoritative content available in the exceptional resources from ProQuest via visual cues and other search-enhancing features
• See the big picture with content in context via a broad range of formats, including key historical and current full-image journals, periodicals, news sources, dissertations, reports, books, multimedia, and more
• Pinpoint critical, full-image data within tables and figures that is not revealed with most other search engines
• View detail, including abstracts—which faculty, students, and researchers use to assess information quickly Sign up for alerts and RSS feeds and utilize post-search tools to cite, customize, share, and save findings, and more

 

If you have not done so already, we’d like to invite you to sign up for our e-mail list for platform updates, and visit our website where you will find background information and our new Flash Preview.

 

 

NEW! International Bibliography of Art 

The definitive resource for scholarly literature on western art - Available exclusively from ProQuest 

 

In a new agreement between ProQuest and the Getty Research Institute (GRI), ProQuest has taken over as publisher of the International Bibliography of Art, the successor to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). This agreement provides a secure future for a resource considered central to the study of art history, and assures its continuing development and accessibility to researchers around the world.

 

ProQuest will distribute the most recent content that was created by the GRI (from the years 2008 through 2009), and will build on this by adding new index records going forward. ProQuest will retain the editorial policies which have made this bibliography one of the most trusted and frequently consulted sources in the field, and will use the GRI’s own thesaurus and authority files. Over time, ProQuest also intends to expand coverage of art from Asia, Latin America and Africa in response to requests from art librarians and researchers.

 

Ideal for academic libraries, specialist art libraries and museums, the International Bibliography of Art provides authoritative coverage of current scholarship. Its scope encompasses:

European art from late antiquity to the present, American art from the colonial era to the present, and global art since 1945

Visual arts in all media: painting, sculpture, drawing, video, installations, new media, decorative and applied arts, museum studies and conservation, archaeology, folk art and material culture, classical studies, antiques, architectural history

A broad international range, with around 60% of content from non-English-language publications

At least 500 core journals will be covered, plus detailed coverage of monographs, essay collections, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogues.

 

Available now on the CSA Illumina platform, with:

• Easy, intuitive quick search
• Powerful advanced search features
• Interactive thesaurus search
• Search alerts & search history
• Multiple language interfaces
• My Research personalisation options
• CSA Discovery links to ARTstor for mutual customers

 

 

COMING SOON! The Vogue Archive 

ProQuest is pleased to announce that the entire back file of Vogue (U.S. edition) is to be made available on the new ProQuest platform. The Vogue archive is a treasure-chest of the work of the greatest designers, photographers, stylists and illustrators of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and a unique record of American and international popular culture. The complete archive runs from 1892 to the present, with every issue digitised in high-resolution colour scans, including every page, cover, advertisement and fold-out. Almost half a million pages of extraordinarily image-rich material will be available online for the first time.

 

In a unique partnership with Condé Nast, indexing will be added to individual images within the magazine, allowing users to find relevant images instantly. Instead of browsing through print copies of Vogue, students and researchers will be able to search for images by garment type, designer, fabric and other search fields. The resource will be updated every month to include the current issue of Vogue.

 

The database will allow fashion design and photography students to find inspirational images, but will also cater for academic study. Fashion marketing students will be able to research the history of a brand identity by, for example, viewing every advertisement for Revlon between specified dates. Researchers in cultural studies and gender studies will be able to explore themes such as body image, gender roles and social tastes from the 1890s to the present.

 

This exciting project presents a major development in providing online resources for the growing discipline of fashion studies. ProQuest’s Vogue Archive is scheduled for release in December 2010

 

 

Also available from ProQuest: 

• ARTbibliographies Modern
• Design & Applied Arts Index
• BHI: British Humanities Index
• Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
• Arts & Humanities Full Text

 

 

 

ProQuest partners with libraries on Early European Books 

“LIBER is delighted to be associated with ProQuest’s Early European Books project and with the vision to include all imprints from across the whole of Europe between 1475 and 1700. It is a compelling vision and will result in a magnificent tool for European scholarship. LIBER feel that a viable model has been established to create a high-quality resource with huge benefit to scholars, students and beyond” 

Dr Paul Ayris, President of LIBER (Association of European Research Libraries)

 

 

ProQuest’s Early English Books Online (EEBO) has been one of the most successful research collections ever produced. It revolutionised Early Modern research across all subject areas. ProQuest is now extending its famous EEBO digitisation program into continental Europe with Early European Books. Full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources drawn from the great libraries of continental Europe will be made available to institutions around the world through Early European Books. The high-definition colour images reveal details like illuminated letters, hand-coloured illustrations and handwritten marginalia. In addition, Early European Books will also provide photographs of all interior and exterior bindings, end papers and spines.

 

Find out more about the latest partnership with the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze here.

 

Visit ProQuest on Stand C210 to speak to a representative, or email marketing@proquest.co.uk for more information quoting promotion code EX 510 10 on all correspondence.

 

 

 

4. Take Part in the Adopt a Student Welcome Reception 

ProQuest are proud to be hosting the Adopt a Student Welcome Reception on stand C210. The reception is to officially initialise the ’Adopt a Student’ programme which was launched last year during the IFLA Congress in Milan.

 

IFLA President, Ellen Tise, will be attending the reception and will be available to answer any questions you may have about the programme.

 

Please do come and join us for a glass of wine and a few nibbles.

 

When:    Friday 13th August

Where:  Stand C210

Time:    16.30 – 17.30

 

For more information about the Adopt a Student programme please visit http://www.ifla.org/en/set/adopt-a-student.

 

 

5. Find out the Latest Developments in Catalogue Enhancement and Book Discovery 

Bowker will be showcasing the latest in catalogue enhancement and book discovery. Please visit Stand C210, ask us for a report allowing you to evaluate the relevance to your collection of services such as Syndetic Solutions™ and LibraryThing for Libraries, and discover the new Books in Print®!

 

Syndetic Solutions enhances your library catalogue by providing data elements such as cover images, tables of contents, annotations, author notes and much more. It is compatible with most ILS's and requires hardly any resources from the library's side. You just pick and choose the elements you need to enhance your catalogue. Read more about all the elements on offer here. If you think this service may be of interest to you, please send us your ISBN list so we can generate a match report against our database, for discussion at IFLA.

 

This is the latest way to enhance your OPAC with tags, reviews and recommended/similar books. LibraryThing for Libraries offers your library users exciting new content and allows them to interact with your catalogue, share knowledge as well as generating interest in your OPAC. Read about it here. In recent weeks, we have also been able to offer two new applications called Shelf Browse and Library Anywhere. You can read more about these here and here.

 

Perhaps our most innovative solution to demonstrate is BooksInPrint 2.0. With this updated version which incorporates GlobalBooksInPrint data too, you can benefit from a new search and discovery interface, a single Google-like search box to start your search, different editions and formats of titles grouped automatically, social networking and interactive functionality plus many existing features including advanced search, lists, download and email functionality. Read more about BooksInPrint.com 2.0 here.

 

If you would like to arrange an appointment with us at IFLA, please contact us at sales@bowker.co.uk or call 020 7832 1770. Alternatively just drop by Stand C210 to speak to a representative about our cost-effective solutions that are easy to implement, regularly updated and informative to you.

 

 

 

6. Get a Sneak-Peak at the Brand New Release of the RefWorks-COS Interface – RefWorks 2.0 

RefWorks-COS is pleased to announce the release of its new user interface, RefWorks 2.0. Initially being released in beta, RefWorks 2.0 presents its renowned research management, writing, and collaboration services in an intuitive, streamlined interface. The new web 2.0 interface uses modern user interface design to make all of RefWorks’ valuable features easier to use. Some of the features highlighted in the new interface include collaboration using RefShare, management of all information types (specifically the ability to upload and search full-text attachments), and much more!

 

Contact your local ProQuest Account Manager or visit Stand C210 for a demonstration.

 

 

Start here. Discover more. 

 

Discover how your library or institution can benefit from real research solutions: visit the ProQuest Website today. Or for a personal FREE TRIAL of any of our products please visit quoting promotion code EX 510 10 on all correspondence.