ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 18, 2007 - ProQuest has signed an agreement with Cambridge University Press to offer more than 200 Cambridge Journals titles in selected ProQuest® platform products. The arrangement makes an even greater number of scholarly full-text articles available to subscribers of ProQuest's aggregated journal products.
These titles are some of the highest quality peer-reviewed titles available to researchers,” said Suzanne BeDell, senior vice president of publishing for ProQuest. “We’re pleased to make content from the one of the world’s most distinguished publishers more widely accessible through the renowned ProQuest platform to researchers everywhere.”
"In keeping with our mission to advance learning, knowledge and research worldwide, this alliance will enable an increased availability and accessibility to Cambridge Journals through ProQuest’s extended reach in key territories globally" said Stephen Bourne, Chief Executive of Cambridge University Press. "Through this agreement we are confident that our titles, both those published on behalf of learned societies and those owned by the Press, will reach new markets, new readers and most importantly, new potential contributors, particularly those in the rapid growing economies of the world".
The alliance provides more than 200 Cambridge titles including: Epidemiology & Infection, Psychological Medicine and Behavioral and Brain Sciences which recently ranked top position of all 1768 journals indexed in the Social Science Citation Index and also ranked top in the category of Behavioral Sciences in the Science Citation Index. Journals published by Cambridge on behalf of learned societies include American Political Science Review and The China Quarterly (both also ranked number 1 in their categories) and Journal of Economic History, and World Trade Review. These titles support research in various subject areas including business, general reference, medical, and more.
Cambridge University Press titles will be included in many products on the ProQuest platform, including: ABI/INFORM® Complete, History Study Center™, ProQuest® Research Library, ProQuest® Nursing & Allied Health Source, ProQuest® Health & Medical Complete, International Index to Black Periodicals, Ethnic NewsWatch, Periodicals Archive Online, International Index to Music Periodicals, International Index to Performing Arts, Literature Online®, Canadian Business and Current Affairs, ProQuest® Asian Business, ProQuest ® Discovery, ProQuest® Social Science, ProQuest® Religion, ProQuest® Education, ProQuest® Health Management, ProQuest® Psychology Journals, ProQuest® Agriculture Journals, ProQuest® Science Journals, ProQuest ® Biology Journals, and ProQuest® Computing.
Titles from Cambridge University Press will be available through ProQuest platform products this fall. For more information about ProQuest, visit www.il.proquest.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.
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About Cambridge Journals
Cambridge Journals publishes over 200 peer-reviewed academic journals across a wide spread of subject areas, in print and online. Many of these journals are the leading academic publications in their fields and together they form one of the most valuable and comprehensive collections of research available today.
For Cambridge Journals please go to http://www.journals.cambridge.org
About Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the publishing division of the University of Cambridge, one of the world’s leading research institutions and winner of 81 Nobel Prizes. Cambridge University Press advances learning, knowledge and research worldwide. It publishes over 200 journals and over 2,500 books a year for distribution in more than 200 countries.
For Cambridge University Press please go to: http://www.cambridge.org
