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SEATTLE, June 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Serials Solutions®, a ProQuest® business, today announced an agreement with Beijing Apabi Technology Co. Ltd., (Apabi) to enable the discovery of its vast collection of Chinese e-book content in the Summon® web-scale discovery service. Students, researchers and librarians using the Summon service will be able to discover Chinese-language titles from the comprehensive collection of e-books from Apabi, alongside their library's other...

NEW PROVIDENCE, N.J., June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Bowker, the global leader in bibliographic information, released its annual report on U. S. print book publishing for 2011, compiled from its Books In Print® database. Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is projecting that traditional print book output grew six percent in 2011, from 328,259 titles in 2010 to a projected 347,178 in 2011, driven almost exclusively by a strong self-publishing market. This is the...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- On May 24, executives from Ann Arbor-based ProQuest were present as Queen Elizabeth II officially launched a unique, online view into royal history: a digital retrospective of the complete personal journals of Queen Victoria, enabling the first-ever access to the private records of one of the world's most influential public figures. Renowned for its expertise in making rare, fragile works accessible to broad audiences, ProQuest is a...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Knowledge powerhouse ProQuest is launching an inventive new research service that provides individuals with access to premium content and cutting edge tools. Instant and on-demand, Udini(TM) bundles an extraordinary range of information, including peer-reviewed and trade journal articles, dissertations, international newswires, newspapers, magazines and more from thousands of publishers in a comprehensive cloud-based workflow management...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest LLC, a global information firm central to research, will release its first quarter 2012 financial results (through March 31, 2012) on Monday, April 30, 2012. On Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 2 p.m., CEO Kurt Sanford and CFO Phil Evans will host a conference call for lenders and bond investors to discuss the results. Call-in details are available on ProQuest's secure investor exchange. Contact bondinvestor@proquest.com for...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest LLC, a global information firm central to research, will release its fourth quarter 2011 financial results (through December 31, 2011) on Monday, March 26, 2012. On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at 2 p.m., CEO Kurt Sanford and CFO Phil Evans will host a conference call for both bank and bond investors to discuss the results. Call-in details are available on ProQuest's secure investor exchange. Contact bondinvestor@proquest.com...

Leader in plagiarism checking to include dissertations from 2008 to the present OAKLAND, Calif., March 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Turnitin, the global leader in originality checking and plagiarism prevention, today announced a partnership with ProQuest, an information company serving the global research community, to include more than 300,000 dissertations and theses from 2008 to the present in the Turnitin comparison database. The agreement enhances Turnitin's repository of...

LITTLETON, Mass., Jan. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mevion Medical Systems announced today that it has closed a $45 Million investment from ProQuest Investments and its existing investors, including Caxton Heath Life Sciences, Venrock and CHL Medical Partners. Mevion is the manufacturer of the MEVION S250 Proton Therapy System. The capital will be used to accelerate the manufacturing and worldwide deployment of the MEVION S250. Proton beam radiation therapy permits more precise...

Researchers of all types can access paper's authoritative content digitally and through microfilm Ann Arbor, Mich. (PRWEB) January 22, 2012 From its inception in 1908, The Christian Science Monitor has delivered comprehensive and meaningful coverage of global issues in a uniquely independent voice. With the long-standing agreement between the venerable news organization and ProQuest just extended through 2013, researchers of all types can continue to confidently support their work...

Full support of Mac environment among enhancements made to the citation tool so popular with student and professional researchers Ann Arbor, Mich. (PRWEB) January 22, 2012 What group could be more vocal than researchers searching for critical content on deadline? Those who still need to finish a classroom assignment or professional project with proper formatting. Many of those researchers are loyal users of Write-N-Cite, the popular citation tool that is part of the RefWorks® line of...