ProQuest 5000 Easy Access to Multidisciplinary Full Text

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ProQuest 5000 Easy Access to Multidisciplinary
Full Text

• Palazzo delle Stelline
• October 2005

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Product Overview
ProQuest 5000 International a combination of 15
ProQuest databases in one complete package

• General Reference resources
• Academic Research Library
• Education resources
• ProQuest Education Journals
• Career Technical Education
• Science resources
• ProQuest Science Journals
• ProQuest Telecommunications
• ProQuest Computing
• Social Science resources
• ProQuest Social Science Journals
• ProQuest Religion

• Business resources
• ABI/INFORM Global
• Accounting Tax
• Banking Information Source
• ProQuest Asian Business
• ProQuest European Business
• Medical resources
• ProQuest Health Medical Complete
• Pharmaceutical News Index

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Overview of ProQuest 5000 content

• Combines 8,937 titles
• Over 4,973 titles available in full text/full
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• Over 2,809 full text titles have current full
  text
• Only 918 titles are embargoed
• Up to 3 months - 83
• 4 6 months - 174
• 12 months - 643
• More than 12 months - 18
• 3,512 titles are peer-reviewed
• Total impact factor rating 2834.005
• Average impact factor rating 0.32

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Key publishers available through ProQuest
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Key Content exclusive to ProQuest

• European Management Review - Exclusively
  available in ABI/INFORM from Summer 2004
• Sloan Management Review - returned exclusively to
  ProQuest in November 2004
• Rand Journal of Economics - returned exclusively
  to ProQuest in August 2004
• Noticias Financieras - access to the financial
  news pages from over 80 leading Latin American
  newspapers
• New England Journal of Medicine

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Why customers buy

• For good, comprehensive coverage of a vast number
  of periodicals that cover the spectrum of subject
  areas
• To provide a number of constituents with access
  to the information they need but in a single
  resource (i.e. multiple departments, public
  libraries, ministries of education and other
  consortia groups)
• To supplement specialist subject databases

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Indexing Capabilities

• A good index is the key to finding the right
  information
• ProQuest have over 30 years experience indexing
  articles
• We employ over 50 people, experts in their field,
  who assign indexing terms based on academic
  relevance
• This enables accurate linking to the full text of
  an article and
• Enables customers to retrieve the exact
  information they need. This is very important
  when dealing with databases that provide access
  to a large volume of journals.

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Indexing Capabilities

• Example
• Article The commitment-trust theory of
  relationship marketing,
• Morgan, Robert M Hunt, Shelby D - Journal of
  Marketing
• Chicago Jul 1994. Vol. 58, Iss. 3 pg. 20, 19
  pgs.
• ABI/INFORM index fields Subjects Studies,
  Models, Market strategy, Market research,
  Customer relations, Correlation analysis,
  Comparative analysis, Professional
  relationships, Marketing, Economic models.
• This detailed indexing is very helpful for
  finding related journal articles.
• (University of San Francisco)
• Business Source Premier index fields Subject(s)
  MARKETING.
• In case you are wondering, if I run Marketing
  as a subject search in Business Source I get a
  list of over 81,200 citations! Thats
  practically as bad as an Internet search engine
  search.) This is completely unhelpful and
  unfortunately the rule rather than the exception
  with EBSCO. Business Sources content is great,
  but a powerful research database should offer
  decent indexing.
• (University of San Francisco)

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Researchers Prefer ProQuest

• ProQuest uses relevance bias
• Consistently, thoroughly and accurately indexed
  articles
• Allows researchers to construct a search that
  finds all the relevant articles and few
  irrelevant articles
• Requires significant investment to build and
  apply controlled vocabulary tailored to the
  database content 30-year investment in creating
  the ProQuest index
• Cannot be created quickly through retrospective
  indexing, such as EBSCO is carrying out takes
  time and effort to accurately index articles

Researchers benefit by quickly and precisely
retrieving all relevant articles Professional
editors maintain strong authority file
control 200-300 personal, product and company
names names added to file daily
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Researchers Prefer ProQuest

• General Reference includes far more detailed
  indexing
• Academic Research Library offers 17 searchable
  fields
• Separate fields for geographic name, article
  type, headnote and footnote allow greater
  searching control
• Ensures accurate, relevant results list

General Reference Exclusive Fields
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Interface Features
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Interface Features

• ProQuest Smart Search
• Alerting Services
• My Research
• Email Enhancements
• Browsing Non-Periodical Content
• Customizable CrossLinks Graphics and Labels
• Local Administrator (LAD) Redesign
• ProQuest Linking Integration Team

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ProQuest Smart Search

• What is it?
• ProQuest Smart Search displays suggested topics
  at the top of the users search results to aid in
  directing or narrowing their search for optimal
  results quickly
• ProQuest Smart Search uses a variety of
  techniques to map a users search terms to
  relevant items in our controlled vocabulary.
  These techniques analyze index term occurrence
  patterns, as well as comparing the users current
  search against previously run searches

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Alerting Feature

• Allows users to setup email alerts to be notified
  when new content of interest is available from
  ProQuest
• Publication Alerts Notified when the latest
  issue of their favorite journal is available on
  ProQuest
• Search Alerts Receive emails containing the
  latest matching articles from their favorite
  search

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RSS Feeds
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Email Enhancements

• Users can email
• Multiple articles in a single email
• Brief citations with links back to the article in
  ProQuest
• Citations and abstracts
• Full text of articles in ASCII or PDF format
• My Research
• Formatted bibliographies

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Browsing Non-Periodical Content

• Users will have the ability to browse through
  complete report sets from the following
  collections
• EIU ViewsWire
• OxResearch
• Snapshots Market Research Reports
• Hoovers Company Records
• Dissertations Masters Theses
• Access through Publication Search and from the
  database selection screen

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Linking Integration Team

• Pro-actively support customers and prospects with
  linking and integration of electronic content
• Staff members dedicated to linking and
  integration at the customer site level
• Experienced in remote access solutions and
  various authentication schemas
• Create a knowledge-base of content related to
  linking and integration to support our customers

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ProQuest 5000 Easy Access to Multidisciplinary
Full Text

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