Springer-Verlag publishes approximately 500 journals and 2,600 books covering medicine, life sciences, and business for an international audience. Key titles in the new agreement include: The Journal of Economics, Economic Theory, Neurogenetics, Psychological Research and Journal of Cancer Research and Clinical Oncology .

“ProQuest is especially pleased to distribute these new journals from Springer on a non-exclusive basis. We want to challenge the exclusive-content model. Librarians have told us how important it is to have scholarly resources available from a variety of sources. Our users have also told us that access to such highly regarded publications in business and medicine is extremely important,” said Suzanne BeDell, ProQuest vice president, publisher.

The Springer titles will be available in ProQuest’s ABI/INFORM^® family of online business periodical databases, Academic Research Library^™, and ProQuest Science, Technology, and Medical databases. Most of the new titles will be available early in 2004; all 73 of the science, technology, and medicine titles are new to electronic distribution. The other 30 titles, covering economics and business, were previously available only through a single distributor; they will be available through ProQuest, as well, beginning in August 2004.

“We are delighted to be working with ProQuest, and are especially pleased to have signed a non-exclusive agreement” said Syed Hasan, director of business development of Springer-Verlag New York. “Springer strongly believes that the best way to further research is through broad access to our publications, and we welcome ProQuest’s open approach”

Founded in 1842, Springer-Verlag is one of the most prestigious scientific publishers in the world. Its publications include books and journals in medicine and life sciences, published in print and electronic media. Each year Springer-Verlag publishes approximately 500 journals and 2,600 books internationally. In New York, its staff concentrates on more than 40 society and proprietary journals and some 100 clinical publications and textbooks. Wherever scientific research is carried out, highly qualified experts, including a large number of Nobel Prize winners, count themselves among its authors. For more information, please visit http://www.springer-ny.com/

ProQuest Information and Learning is a world leader in collecting, organising, and publishing information worldwide to researchers, faculty, and students in libraries and schools. Known widely for its strength in business and economics, general-reference, humanities, social sciences, and STM content, the company develops premium databases comprising periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, out-of-print books, and other scholarly information from more than 9,000 publishers worldwide. Users access the information through ProQuest^®, the company’s web-based online information system, Chadwyck-Healey^™ electronic and microform resources, UMI^® microform and print reference products, eLibrary^™ and SIRS^® educational resources, and XanEdu^™ online faculty and student resources.

The company has international offices in Cambridge UK, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America with global headquarters in Michigan, USA.