“The Winnipeg Free Press is the oldest newspaper in Western Canada, and respected by many for its independent approach and commitment to public service,” said Rod Gauvin, Senior Vice-President, Marketing and Publishing for ProQuest Information and Learning in Ann Arbor, Michigan. “The addition of the Winnipeg Free Press to Canadian Newsstand helps fulfill ProQuest’s objective of providing library institutions and patrons with the most complete regional and national online newspaper coverage possible.”
“We’re pleased to have entered into this distribution agreement with ProQuest and look forward to a mutually rewarding long term partnership,” says Dan Koshowski, Vice President of Finance and Administration, Winnipeg Free Press.
The agreement includes the complete electronic backfile, through today’s issue, of the Winnipeg Free Press. This dominant Western Canadian newspaper will be available by subscription in the Canadian Newsstand product family: as a stand-alone title; within the Major Dailies newspaper package; and as part of the complete Canadian Newsstand collection. Content will be available once the data load is complete. The Winnipeg Free Press will also be available in eLibrary Canada Curriculum Edition, serving the Canadian K-12 educational market.
Canadian Newsstand and eLibrary Canada Curriculum Edition are available in Canada through Micromedia ProQuest.
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ProQuest 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 9,000 publishers worldwide. Users access the information through the ProQuest® Web-based online information system, Chadwyck-HealeyTM 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.
Micromedia ProQuest is Canada's leading publisher and distributor of proprietary and third-party bibliographic, financial, and directory database products for the educational, academic, public and corporate library markets. Founded in 1972, products incorporate information from Canadian companies, media sources, regulatory bodies and government agencies. Micromedia ProQuest also offers a variety of Canadian publications and documents in microform format. Many holdings date from as early as 1867 or earlier representing microform copies of original print editions. As well as representing all products of ProQuest Information and Learning (U.S.) the company acts as Canadian distributor for a number of international publishing groups and partner organizations.
