“ISI Web of Knowledge SM has long been acknowledged as the de facto standard for creating search and discovery pathways to scholarly content,” said Suzanne BeDell, ProQuest Vice President of Publishing. “This new product by Thomson Scientific is a perfect vehicle to expose to the widest possible audience the Open Access content that institutions place in their Digital Commons repositories.”
“ProQuest has created a unique service offering for institutional repositories,” said James Pringle, Vice President of Development, Thomson Scientific. “We are very pleased to be working with ProQuest, given the number of scholarly institutions that have chosen Digital Commons since its introduction last year. The Web Citation Index already includes repositories based on a variety of platforms. Adding significant content from ProQuest’s service will make it even easier for users around the world to discover pathways to material that includes preprints, post-prints, technical reports, dissertations, proceedings, and other gray literature.”
ProQuest’s Digital Commons is an OAI-compliant digital institutional repository service powered by technology supplied by The Berkeley Electronic Press. Digital Commons maximizes the visibility and availability of scholarship at a significantly lower cost than open-source alternatives. The alliance between Digital Commons and Web Citation Index creates a central point of access for finding the most up-to-date and relevant research available.
Web Citation Index is the multidisciplinary citation index of scholarly content from institutional and subject-based repositories. Web Citation Index transcends the capabilities of traditional Web search engines, providing users with a robust citation-based discovery vehicle for content hosted on institutional repositories. Thomson Scientific content editors select only those Web repositories deemed scholarly. This ensures Web Citation Index delivers only the highest-quality, most-relevant content.
About ProQuest Information and LearningProQuest Information and Learning, a division of ProQuest Company, is a world leader in collecting, organizing, and publishing information worldwide for researchers, faculty, and students in libraries and schools. Known widely for its strength in business and economics, general reference, humanities, social sciences, and STM content, the company develops premium databases comprising periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, out-of-print books, and other scholarly information from more than 8,500 publishers worldwide. Users access the information through the ProQuest® Web-based online information system, Chadwyck-Healey™ electronic and microform resources, UMI® microform and print reference products, eLibrary®, SIRS® and Voyager Expanded Learning educational resources. For more information about ProQuest Information and Learning, visit www.il.proquest.com.
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