ANN ARBOR, Mich., August 22, 2007 - ProQuest and Oxford University Press (OUP), a world renowned university press, are extending their long-time partnership.  The new contract enables ProQuest to continue to provide its  customers with access to 154 key Oxford University Press journals, that will be available in select ProQuest aggregated journal business and STM databases such as ABI/INFORM® and ProQuest® Medical Library.

"The extension of this agreement underscores our continuing commitment to offering researchers the most comprehensive and authoritative academic reference materials in their fields," said Suzanne BeDell, senior vice president of publishing at ProQuest.  "We are pleased to extend our agreement with such a renowned publisher to further increase the depth and breadth of information available through ProQuest products."

"At Oxford Journals, we are delighted to see the continuation of our long standing relationship with ProQuest and to know that our high quality journal content will continue to be available to its customers," said Fiona Bennett, Head of Library Sales and Business Development at Oxford Journals.

Building on six years of continuous partnership and service to users, key OUP titles available from ProQuest include: Briefings in Bioinformatics, Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Human Molecular Genetics, European Heart Journal, Journal of Economic Geography, and Oxford Economic Papers.  This agreement will help increase the availability of these high quality academic and research journals, giving ProQuest users access to important international content.

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 Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the world's largest and most international of university presses. Founded in 1478, it currently publishes more than 4,500 new books a year, has a presence in over fifty countries, and employs some 3,700 people worldwide. It has become familiar to millions through a diverse publishing programme that includes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, school and college textbooks, children's books, materials for teaching English as a foreign language, business books, dictionaries and reference books, and journals.
Oxford Journals, a Division of OUP, publishes over 200 journals covering a broad range of subject areas, two-thirds of which are published in collaboration with learned societies and other international organizations. The collection contains some of the world's most prestigious titles, including Nucleic Acids Research, JNCI (Journal of the National Cancer Institute), Brain, Human Reproduction, English Historical Review, and the Review of Financial Studies. Read more about Oxford Journals: www.oxfordjournals.org