ProQuest Information and Learning is launching a revolutionary change to its signature search platform. Starting now, libraries with a database on the ProQuest® platform can use it for access to full text of the electronic content in its collection, whether it's from ProQuest or another content provider. The innovation, called One Click searching™, eliminates one of the most common frustrations of serious researchers by building a direct path between search results and full text.

"Libraries are dealing with a patron base that has diminishing patience for search techniques. They want predictable, seamless, and dependable access to full text in their holdings wherever it may be," said David "Skip" Prichard, president of ProQuest Information and Learning. "One Click provides exactly that. It allows the library to thrive in a dynamic research environment by matching its users' expectations."

While the technology behind One Click is sophisticated, its appearance to searchers is remarkably simple. Users enter search terms in any database on the ProQuest platform and the results screen will include links to full text from the library's e-collection. To connect to the full text, users simply click once on the full-text button.

Until One Click, linking from research databases across multiple publishers involved unpredictability and dead-end links in pursuing article full text, frustrating users and reducing library credibility among one of its most important patron groups - serious researchers. One Click is a technology solution that considers each library's holdings, delivering links that are accurate, consistent, and automatic.

"This is the next generation in search technology," said Prichard. "One Click resets the bar by opening content through its search interface, no matter who it comes from. It's what libraries want and what their users want, and now they have it."

One Click is available now to libraries with a database on the ProQuest platform. Some libraries may need to activate the service. For information on the simple activation process, please contact customer_service@proquest.co.uk or telephone + 44 (0) 1223 271400.

Note to journalists: One Click's developers will hold a 30-minute webinar specifically designed for press on January 12, 2007 at 12 noon EST. To register, contact Tina Orozco or Beth Dempsey at tina.orozco@il.proquest.com or beth@bethdempsey.com.

If you would like further product information please e-mail marketing@proquest.co.uk

ProQuest Information and Learning is a world leader in collecting, organizing, and publishing information for researchers, faculty, and students in libraries and schools. It is widely known for its strength in business and economics, general reference, genealogy, 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 the ProQuest® Web-based online information system, Chadwyck-HealeyTM electronic and microform resources, UMI® microform and print reference products, eLibrary® and SIRS® educational resources, and Serials Solutions e-resource access and management solutions. ProQuest® Smart Search was named "Best Specialist Search Product" by the International Information Industry Awards in late 2005. For more information about ProQuest Information and Learning, visit www.proquest.co.uk