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Plans move forward to combine EBL and ebrary into a single, best-of-breed e-book platform ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest, an information company central to global research, has completed its acquisition of Ebook Library (EBL), significantly expanding its e-book delivery and aggregation capabilities with libraries worldwide. The acquisition supports ProQuest's overall goal of enhancing the research experience through seamless discovery of content across...

Research solution provider leverages findings to meet and exceed expectations of multiple audiences ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ForeSee, the global leader in technology-driven customer experience analytics, today announced that ProQuest, an information firm central to research, is using ForeSee's customer experience analytics solution to measure and analyze the customer experience on its research portal used by academics around the globe. (Logo:...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest LLC, a global information firm central to research, will release its first quarter 2013 financial results (through March 31, 2013) on Monday, May 13, 2013. On Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 11 a.m. (ET), CEO Kurt Sanford and Interim CFO Jonathan Collins will host a conference call for lenders and bond investors to discuss the results. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120620/DE27948LOGO-a) Call-in details are available on...

ProQuest senior exec brings decades of experience to industry association ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Simon Beale, ProQuest Senior Vice President and General Manager of the company's North American Government, Public Library and Schools unit, has been named to the Board of Directors of the Software Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software and digital content industries. He joins the board this month and will bring...

Company Offers Archival Copies to Institutions from their Digitization Projects ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest is helping universities build robust institutional repositories (IRs) by sharing digital copies of their graduate works which have been converted from paper or microfilm and archived in the ProQuest Dissertations and Thesis database (PQDT). The move enables universities to build their own searchable, historical archives even if their IR programs...

Cloud-based collaboration platform supports productive, online, team-oriented research ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Attendees at the UKSG and Association of College and Research Libraries conferences are getting a look at the next generation of document and reference management as ProQuest demos its new RefWorks Flow(TM), a cloud-based collaboration platform for research materials. Flow was created to provide a better solution for the changing workflow of...

Open access to homework databases, e-books, plus marketing support for libraries at proquest.com/go/celebrate April 14 through 20 ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest, an information firm central to research, is celebrating America's National Library Week with a rich assortment of goodies for libraries and their patrons. During April 11 through 20, the company will open some of its most popular databases found exclusively through library websites and help...

ebrary® and ProQuest® content is now discoverable in a single, integrated search ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest is streamlining research by enabling ebrary® and ProQuest® content to be discovered within a single search experience. Now, researchers can surface e-books side-by-side with relevant reports, videos, journal and newspaper articles and more in one step. The advance in searching comes via linking technology that enables users to navigate...

Top European universities to surface their innovative research via institutional repositories and new PQDT Global ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest is digitizing more than 15,000 dissertations from premier European universities, providing broad, online access to these works for the first time. Digital discovery of the works from University College London, University of Aberdeen, Cardiff University, University of Leicester, University of Bath and University of Valencia...

ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest LLC, a global information firm central to research, will release its full year 2012 financial results (through December 31, 2012) on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. On Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 11 a.m. (ET), CEO Kurt Sanford and CFO Phil Evans will host a conference call for lenders and bond investors to discuss the results. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120620/DE27948LOGO-a ) Call-in details are available on...