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Librarians tell us that ProQuest resources are among the Early European Books most-valued in their libraries. One reason is that ProQuest Early European Books aims to digitize the extensive is different from aggregators that focus on journal content collection of all printed works in Europe between alone. We go miles further—providing diversity and depth 1450-1700—serving researchers of the early modern with prestigious, unique, and specialized content collections period with exclusive and unique content. New to serve your users’ needs, precisely and powerfully. modules for 2015 include: Primary sources along with secondary sources such as • Collection 7 ebooks aid in the development of critical thinking skills Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, London’s Wellcome by allowing researchers to examine evidence, identify Library and Copenhagen’s Kongelige Bibliothek offer a questions, and draw original conclusions. mix of subject matter, spanning from theology to science, mathematics to natural history, astronomy, philosophy, aesthetics and statecraft, medical history, classical Ebooks literature, religion, and more. ebrary Subject Subscriptions and Packages • Collection 8 ProQuest offers subject subscriptions that may be Due to be released at the end of 2015, Collection 8 will licensed individually. In early 2015, we realigned our complete the digitization of the Rare Books Reserve at the ebooks offering into 10 subject areas to enhance Bilbiothèque nationale de France. The Rare Books Reserve effective cross-searching with ProQuest journal and holds approximately 200,000 volumes selected for being archive resources and to provide ProQuest ebook rare editions or unique copies, from the Gutenberg Bible to customers with access to more content. The new the most contemporary books. The collection, which is subject areas include: Business & Economics, Science encyclopedic in nature, includes many first editions of & Technology, The Arts, History & Political Science, founding or otherwise notable texts in western culture. Literature & Language, Health & Medicine, and Social Sciences. Additionally we offer three subject collections Early English Books Online – TCP II unique to ebooks: Law, Religion & Philosophy, and Early English Books Online (EEBO) is the definitive online Education. Each of these subscriptions can be collection of early printed works in English and works printed supplemented with carefully curated perpetual packages in England, making digital copies of over 125,000 titles in each subject area that include key titles from renowned before 1700, discoverable through an interface tailored to publishers. The Academic Complete subscription includes early modern scholars. Now, a second collection of more all 10 subject areas, plus customers receive the Book than 38,000 works of searchable transcriptions of the full Display Widgets from LibraryThing for Libraries™. text is available exclusively through ProQuest, helping researchers to discover more from within the EEBO corpus. “History Vault is an absolute first-rate research tool, the single best online resource in 20th century and African American history I have ever encountered.”

— ERIC ARNESEN, PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AT GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

ProQuest History Vault • Office of Strategic Services (OSS) - State Department Intelligence and Research Reports, 1941-1961: During WW II and the first decade and a half of the Cold War, the Office of Strategic Services and the State Department Covering Civil Rights and the Black Freedom Struggle of the assigned leading scholars to write special classified 20th Century, Southern Life and Slavery, Women’s Rights, reports on Asia, Europe, the Soviet Union, Latin America, American Politics and Society, and International Relations and Africa. These reports, which helped to shape U.S. and Military Conflicts. This primary source collection aims foreign policies, are not in the State Departments’ foreign to be unparalleled and cover the full sweep of U.S. History relations series or the armed forces’ official histories, but from the American Revolution to last years of the 20th they are included here. century. New modules for 2015 include:

• Black Freedom Struggle of the 20th Century: Federal • Coming Later This Year! U.S. State Department Central Government Records, Supplement: A supplement to Files, Europe, and Latin America, 1960-1969: This the original module, adding civil rights from the Ford collection will be an important source of American and Reagan presidencies. Files within these collections diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and detail the implementation of federal civil rights laws economic developments throughout the world in the from 1973-1977 and are an important complement 20th century. Concentrating exclusively on those Central to the other Black Freedom modules that focus on Files that have not been microfilmed by the National the campaigns that led to the passage of landmark Archives or distributed by other publishers, this module legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the contains a wide range of materials from U.S. diplomats in Voting rights Act of 1965. Other topics covered include foreign countries, including special reports on military business and school desegregation, civil rights, fair affairs, studies and statistics on socioeconomic matters, housing, voting rights legislation, and more. interviews and meeting minutes, court proceedings and other legal documents, and much more.

• New Deal and the World War II Home Front: • Coming Later This Year! American Indians and the The centerpiece of this module is President Franklin D. American West, 1809-1971: This module is a variety Roosevelt’s Office Files, highlighting the domestic and of collections from the U.S. National Archives, a series foreign concerns of the President and his administration. of collections from the Chicago History Museum, as Major topics covered include the Great Depression, well as selected first-hand accounts on Indian Wars and the New Deal, America’s involvement in WW II, the westward migration. There is a particular focus on internal workings of the Roosevelt administration and Roosevelt’s personal leadership style.

WHAT’S NEW JULY - DECEMBER 2015 3 American Indians in the first half of the 20th century, Coming Later This Year! Newspapers.com a period that has not been studied in as much detail Distributed by ProQuest, Newspapers.com provides as the calamitous 19th century. access to 100+ million pages of historical newspapers, from 3,500+ newspapers in the U.S. and around the world. Also included are several series of records pertaining Discover stories from local communities, coverage, and to U.S. Army action in the West after the Civil War, perspectives on national and international news from the plus a series of records on Indian Removal to the 18th century onward. West, 1832-1840.

• Coming Later This Year! Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915, Plantation Records, Humanities & Social Sciences Part 2: This second collection continues the – Government Documents documentation of the far-reaching impact of plantations Digital Security National Archives (DNSA) CIA Covert on both the American south and the nation via business Operations II: The Year of Intelligence, 1975 records and personal papers of plantation owners. This latest DNSA module expands on the National Security Major collections from universities and family papers Archive’s trove of declassified CIA materials, including CIA comprise this collection, documenting plantation life. Covert Operations: From Carter to Obama, 1977-2010, with a focus on the critical year 1975—the “Year of Intelligence.” Genealogy Coming Later This Year! ® Heritage Quest Online, Powered by Ancestry House of Lords Parliamentary Papers This authoritative family history resource, which can Partnership with the National Library of Scotland creates be accessed from the library or remotely through the the very first digitized collection of the 19th century House of library portal, has a new interface powered by Ancestry, Lords Parliamentary Papers, providing access to previously enriching the search experience and streamlining the unseen and valuable historical documents. The House of research process. Content enhancements include the Lords Parliamentary Papers will encompass wide areas complete U.S. Federal Census 1790-1940 with images of social, political, economic and foreign policy, providing and every-name indexes for all decades, over 40,000 evidence of the committees and commissions during a time books and city directories, and more. when the House of Lords wielded considerable power. From a legislative perspective, this collection will include many Now Available: Fold3 Library Edition bills which originated and were subsequently rejected by Distributed by ProQuest, Fold3 Library Edition by the Lords—rich indicators of the direction and interest of the Ancestry is the premier collection of historical U.S. Lords that have been largely lost to researchers and scholars Military records, with more than 400 million records. of Government, British and World History, Political and Social Unparalleled military content for history and Science, and more. genealogical research. “ … This is a fascinating period in our history and digitization will make these important papers [House of Lords Parliamentary Papers] available on any screen anytime, anywhere.”

— DR. JOHN SCALLY, SCOTLAND’S NATIONAL LIBRARIAN

Coming Later This Year! Indian Claims Insight Historical Periodicals Via its unique interface, researchers can not only access Coming Later This Year! British Periodicals IV Indian Claims Commission materials, but trace the history A unique, transformative resource, British Periodicals of American Indian claims by Indian Nation and/or geographic offers a vast corpus of material charting contemporary location from 1789-present. Content includes a wide range comment on the interests, attitudes, and events across of materials never before available through a single access three centuries of British history, culture, and politics. point, as well as documents and maps never before British Periodicals Collection will offer full-archival available online from any source. coverage of several of the leading magazines of the period. Titles confirmed to date include: Coming Later This Year! Regulatory Insight Researchers will not only be able to retrieve administrative – The Field (1853-2005) law content, but also gain insight into the history of – Tribune (1937-2005) administrative law and to conduct original research. As a – The Highway (1903-1959) companion to Legislative Insight, Regulatory Insight offers – War Weekly (1939-1941) administrative law histories from 1936-2014 organized by Statute. Customers with other ProQuest products such Coming Soon: Legislative Insight and/or Executive Ordersand Presidential Periodicals Index Online – New Module Proclamations will be able to link directly between the products to facilitate post-enactment research. Periodicals Index Online—with over 22 million article citations in the humanities and social sciences, spanning Coming Later This Year! Historical Statistical 300 years of scholarship, 37 subjects, and over 60 Abstracts 2 languages—continues to grow with approximately 400,000 In 2012, ProQuest assumed responsibility for both additional citations in 2015. Plus, many new journals updating and maintaining this much beloved and are being indexed and extra records will be added for numerous existing titles as part of an ongoing initiative to go-to resource that was previously published by the extend the default coverage termination date for the index U.S. Federal Government. In 2014, ProQuest published from 1995 to 2000. Subscription customers automatically the first in a series of three releases of the Historical receive this new content which may alternatively be Statistical Abstracts. In the fall of 2015, ProQuest will acquired on a perpetual access basis as the standalone release the second series, covering the years of module “Segment 48.” 1929-1969. All tables that were once only provided as a printed table on a page, are now unlocked and available as Excel spreadsheets.

WHAT’S NEW JULY - DECEMBER 2015 5 Science, Technology, and Medical Coming Later This Year! The Harper’s Bazaar Archive ProQuest’s Science, Technology, and Medical collections First published in 1867, Harper’s Bazaar was American’s continue to grow. New content includes: first fashion magazine and presents a rich record of style, Journals: Over 200 new titles from publishers, like fashion and culture from the mid-19th century on, featuring Springer, across major disciplines in medicine, the work of leading designers, photographers, artists, nursing, biology, mathematics and physics. illustrators, writers and legendary editors-in-chief such Grey literature: Includes insurance reports from the as Carmel Snow, Diana Vreeland and Alexey Brodovich. Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development By bringing this collection together digitally for the first time, ProQuest creates an accessible, comprehensive and conference papers from the Proceedings on the digital primary resource for the study of material culture, International Conference on Internet Computing (ICOMP). art, fashion, design, gender studies, marketing, brand New nursing training video clips: A fresh batch of 140+ history, and more. video clips from respected provider MedCom were recently added to ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health, Coming Later This Year! Women’s Magazine Archive covering relevant topics like making an occupied bed and Women’s Magazine Archive will comprise archival runs of leading women’s consumer magazines of the 20th century. infection control. These videos were all produced in 2014, This will be a unique collection of many of the most eminent, and they are expertly indexed for easy discovery. long-running, and socially/historically significant titles in this field, with the length of backfile ranging from 78 years Coming in 2016: Impactful Journal Content from BMJ to 123 years. Each of these monthly titles provides a rich and RCNi High impact journals published by BMJ and RCNi seam of material attesting to changing social, historical and (Royal College of Nursing) are coming to ProQuest Health cultural trends over a period of many decades. The titles are and Medical collections in 2016. Included is The BMJ, the considered essential primary sources by many researchers in the fields of women’s/gender studies, social history, fourth most cited general medical journal in the world. business and marketing, fashion, media, and more. These additions complement ProQuest’s unique blend of non-periodical content, including dissertations, working papers, and medical training videos. ProQuest is committed to evolution that gives way to superior research outcomes.

Multidisciplinary with user-centered technology designed to empower users to reach new levels of research success and productivity. ProQuest Central ProQuest Central continues to grow with the following ProQuest is committed to advancing in ways that enable content added in the last 12 months: libraries to reduce inefficiencies, make fuller use of e-content, New Journals Added: More than 800 titles including 500 and support the research experience. Beginning in 2015, we’re scholarly journals across all major disciplines from publishers streamlining and enhancing some 300 products that touch the including Elsevier, Springer, and Oxford University Press spectrum of the research lifecycle from the point of funding through discovery, accessibility, and management—evolving News and Current Affairs: 130 new sources, including the research experience as only ProQuest can. The China Daily, The Week, and 27 newspapers and trade journals from McClatchy New Experiences New Conference Proceedings: From providers including European Conference on e-Government and Academy of The ProQuest interface: Evolved Business and Retail Management In the coming months, accessing and working with Company Records: 44 million company records from ProQuest’s rich, diverse content will be easier and more Experian intuitive than ever before. A careful, subtle redesign of New Market Information: From providers including pages and the technology behind them will… Economist Intelligence Unit, Euromonitor, and Reportal • Simplify layouts, enabling researchers to focus on the content and tools they need to complete their task Curriculum-Aligned Training Videos: Hundreds from National Institute for Health and INTELECOM Sociology • Smooth inbound access of ProQuest content from ® Video Collection discovery services, such as Summon , Ex Libris’ Primo and OCLC’s WorldCat, eliminating confusing barriers Empower New Levels of Research Success • Streamline authentication, making it easier for off- campus researchers to login and access ProQuest At ProQuest, we’re committed to evolution that gives way content to superior research outcomes. These changes will occur automatically and require no user training. In fact, users will see familiar ProQuest pages, but We recognize that libraries are at the center of intense find them simpler and easier to navigate no matter what change in research habits and resources. With input device they’re using. from libraries and users, we’re embarking on a series of upgrades, enhancements, and platform migrations

WHAT’S NEW JULY - DECEMBER 2015 7 ProQuest Ebook Central™ Upgrades Scheduled to launch in 2015, ProQuest Ebook Central ProQuest Congressional integrates ebrary and EBL (Ebook Library), along with We’ve recently added new social media content, along an all-new functionality, delivering a next-generation with updated search experiences for researchers interested experience for researchers and librarians around the in Members, Votes, and Bills. The new look and feel, along globe. ProQuest Ebook Central will have the widest with many more enhancements, will be rolling out selection of quality content and the most acquisition beginning in July through 2015. options in an intuitive, user-friendly platform that simplifies the workflow for both librarians and patrons. ProQuest History Vault Massive growth in content, plus six new modules in 2015, has led to an enhanced interface providing access Now on ProQuest to decades of history in seconds with timelines, unique Bibliografía de la Literatura Española (BLE) content highlights on featured modules, and pathways With the move to the ProQuest platform, this important to serendipitous discovery. resource for scholars of Spanish literature seamlessly connects to the full-text database PRISMA, enabling ProQuest Statistical Collections articles sourced through BLE to be matched to the The new interface will feature a faster, more enjoyable full text. A dual-language interface supports English- experience with responsive design on any device from speaking researchers of Spanish literature, while laptop to mobile, plus more. search fields tailored specifically to this field of study make results more relevant. Collaborations Digital National Security Agency (DNSA) ProQuest and Google Collaborate In May 2015, DNSA moved to the ProQuest platform, to Improve Researchers’ Workflows joining hundreds of cross-searchable resources. ProQuest will enable the full text of its scholarly journal Enhancements include homepages for each collection content to be indexed in Google Scholar, improving research that link to essays, acknowledgments, photos archives, outcomes. It is anticipated that by the third-quarter of 2015, and other information in the collection, access to My users starting their research in Google Scholar will be able Research to manage and share information, and many to access scholarly content via ProQuest. The collaboration other features to empower new levels of research success. between Google and ProQuest enables authenticated ProQuest users to be recognized when they search using Google Scholar, directly connecting them to full-text scholarly content in their libraries’ collections. ProQuest Metadata Integration & Cataloging Section receives ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Citation for 2015

ProQuest and Ex Libris Primo Central index Intota v1 has been a tremendous success. Since its Indexing is now complete for ProQuest resources—adding launch, more than 80 libraries have committed to Intota v1. to more than 200 ProQuest databases—via the Ex Libris (These libraries are in addition to our development and beta Primo Central index of scholarly electronic resources. New partners.) All of these libraries have been, or are in process of additions include: Acta Sanctorum; Digital National Security being implemented. A number of them are in full production, Archive – Kissinger Conversations, Supplement: A Verbatim with all elements of Intota v1. All of them are continuing to Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977; House of Commons use their existing ILS. Several libraries are also committed Parliamentary Papers (HCPP); Literature Online (LION); to what we have called “Intota v2,” which is the release of and Patrologia Latina Database. Intota that allows a library to displace its legacy ILS. All of the libraries committed to Intota v2 also have or are implementing Intota v1. Optimize Discovery, Information Even as we develop Intota v2, we are excited about the Management, Usage, and Sharing imminent arrival of sharing and inheritance functions to ProQuest continues to make enhancements to the Intota v1. These new consortium support functions, which researcher experience that strengthens the library’s will be released in October, 2015, allow libraries to distribute role in the research process. data for commonly subscribed resources, saving keying of complex data and facilitating immediate discovery access Intota™ to essential e-resources. Intota, as a true “library services platform,” is being deployed in phases. Following the strategy of providing Library consortia members can now easily share e-resource the library with the two most identified needs – assessment information with each other, providing immediate workflow and e-resource management, we commercially deployed savings for e-resource configuration and management. Intota what we called “Intota v1” in June 2014. Intota v2 will allow v1 allows libraries that jointly purchase or license resources the library to displace its legacy ILS with a set of transformed to share those resources between their Intota profiles without workflows based a conceptual model designed to connect having to key in redundant database configuration or license users with library resources. Intota v1 is a bundle of information. This is an example of another great milestone services on the library services platform, including: in our Intota development effort! Stay tuned for more at ALA and in the months to come. • Summon • 360 Link • Assessment • E-resource management

WHAT’S NEW JULY - DECEMBER 2015 9 New 360 Link Features and Functionality New Pivot Gallery Strengthen the Library’s Research Role Showcase your institution’s top research talent and their ProQuest released a new 360 Link user interface with work with the new Pivot Gallery, a customizable website integrated Index-Enhanced Direct Linking that improves created from your institution’s existing Pivot profiles that linking reliability and eliminates the most common instantly brings your researchers and their output to life. confusion points for end-users when linking to full-text This public-facing website can help your resident experts content. The new 360 Link user experience is mobile get discovered by media outlets, publishers and law firms, friendly and offers more customization options for and assist in recruiting efforts by showcasing your top libraries—including client configurable custom links, faculty to the world. and a choice of using an intuitive Sidebar Helper frame or highly configurable full-link resolver menu. The Pivot Gallery is ideal for helping an institution: Sidebar Helper frame, soft launched to customers in • Gain exposure for its resident experts among Media August 2014, is now used by more than 300 libraries. Outlets, Publishers and Law Firms • Showcase faculty to assist in recruiting efforts ® Summon Service Enhancements Power Superior • Promote important publications, grants and patents Resource Discovery and Enriches the User Experience that have been published over the years ProQuest continues to focus on improving discovery for the benefit of libraries and their users. New known-item ProQuest Completes Acquisition of Coutts searching improvements address weaknesses within the Information Services and MyiLibrary user search environment when they use the single-search ProQuest has completed the acquisition of Coutts box approach, as they will experience overall improvements Information Services and MyiLibrary from Ingram Content for known-item queries that contain the title and any Group. ProQuest is beginning to integrate assets such as combinations of subtitle, author, publication title (for Coutts’ expertise in collection development, broad catalog Journal Article), Edition (for Book/ebook) and publication of print and digital titles, and platforms that include not year. Also included in this release are two additional options only MyiLibrary but OASIS as well. They are being added for libraries to improve the user experience, Springshare to ProQuest’s Books unit, which encompasses the widest LibChat 2, and an EasyBib export option. selection of ebooks supporting research and a rapidly evolving technology framework for discovery, access and management of book content. ProQuest’s vision is to combine these collective strengths, creating an integrated workflow for print and digital content that will save librarians time and provide a superior book experience for end users. Single sign-on access that is integrated with institutional directories scheduled for release in fall 2015!

SIPX ProQuest Research Companion Through affiliate Bowker®, ProQuest has acquired Palo Alto-based SIPX, creator of a unique digital course materials solution that addresses a variety of copyright In 2015, ProQuest Research Companion was named an and costs concerns for universities. SIPX eliminates SIIA CODiE finalist in two categories: for Best Source for duplicate spending on course packs (collections of Reference or Education Resources, and for Best Reading/ assigned readings) by connecting students to materials English/Language Arts Instructional Solution. It has also been already purchased and available to them through their awarded a Best Database by School Library Journal, and a university library. SIPX’s contributions to the Higher Top 10 E-reference by Booklist. Research Companion is the Education community align with ProQuest’s mission to flagship information literacy product from ProQuest, built to connect libraries more deeply into the day-to-day research help students do more effective scholarly research and to and education needs of students and faculty. support educators as they teach the core information literacy principles of finding, evaluating, and using information. ProQuest Metadata Integration & Cataloging Section: ALCTS Outstanding Collaboration Citation for 2015 Coming This Fall: Single sign-on access that is integrated The Outstanding Collaboration Citation from ALCTS, a with institutional directories, saving time for administrators division of the American Library Association, recognizes and users, and providing the added benefit of protecting and encourages collaborative problem-solving efforts in student privacy. the areas of acquisition, access, management, preservation or archiving of library materials. It recognizes a demonstrated benefit from actions, services or products that improve and benefit providing and managing library collections.

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