ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 12, 2006 - ProQuest Information and Learning and CSA announce today a collaboration to make a collection of editorially-selected full-text ProQuest sources available as an upgrade to CSA's Sociological Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts A&I databases. The new partnership allows customers of these CSA databases to add nearly 240 titles from ProQuest, Periodicals Archive Online (PAO), and ProQuest Periodicals content. End-users get easy, integrated, and seamless access to high- quality information.

“We are very pleased to be working with CSA, given their excellent reputation as a creator of authoritative bibliographic research products,” says Suzanne BeDell, senior vice president of publishing, ProQuest Information and Learning.  “The partnership will leverage CSA’s strength in sociology, social services, and political science, and ProQuest’s deep and robust full-text archives to further guide researchers, faculty, and librarians in retrieving quality information.”

According to CSA’s president, Matt Dunie, “this product offering aligns with CSA’s core mission of enhancing researchers’ efficiency and promoting discovery.  End users will benefit greatly from this partnership.”

The ProQuest full-text content enhances and adds depth to the subject-specific CSA bibliographic databases. This product offering will allow users to retrieve the full-text component of nearly 240 core and priority titles covered in the CSA social science databases, extending the historical backfile of the databases to 1922 for some titles. Users will be able to seamlessly link directly from the bibliographic record into the full-text, text and graphics, or page images of thousands of articles. 

About CSA

Named as an EContent “Top 100” company for 2005, CSA serves as a guide to researchers to facilitate their effectiveness by enabling and expediting discovery, aiding the management and organization of quality information, and providing tools to assist in its subsequent dissemination. CSA specializes in publishing and distributing in print and electronically 100 bibliographic and full-text databases and journals in four primary editorial areas: natural sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities, and technology. A privately held company, CSA is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, with offices throughout the U.S. as well as in such locations as Australia, China, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, and the United Kingdom. Researchers in more than 4,000 institutions in 80 countries use CSA’s information resources. CSA has been a leader in publishing and an innovator in the information field for over 30 years.  For more information about CSA, visit www.csa.com.

About ProQuest
ProQuest creates specialized information resources and technologies that propel successful research, discovery, and lifelong learning. A global leader in serving libraries of all types, ProQuest offers the expertise of such respected brands as Chadwyck-Healey™, UMI®, SIRS®, and eLibrary®. With Serials Solutions®, Ulrich's™, RefWorks®, COS™, Dialog® and now Bowker® part of the ProQuest brand family, the company supports the breadth of the information community with innovative discovery solutions that power the business of books and the best in research experience.

More than a content provider or aggregator, ProQuest is an information partner, creating indispensable research solutions that connect people and information. Through innovative, user-centered discovery technology, ProQuest offers billions of pages of global content that includes historical newspapers, dissertations, and uniquely relevant resources for researchers of any age and sophistication—including content not likely to be digitized by others. Inspired by its customers and their end users, ProQuest is working toward a future that blends information accessibility with community to further enhance learning and encourage lifelong enrichment.

For more information, visit www.proquest.com or the ProQuest parent company website, www.cig.com.