New Products and Additional Full Text Further Establish ProQuest as the
Web's Largest Source for Period Content
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest Information and
Learning has launched new products and added significantly to its 19th
century collection, further establishing ProQuest as the most extensive
digital portal for research on this widely-studied century. Changes to the
collection include the launch of first-ever digital versions of two
essential sources -- British Periodicals Collection I and Wellesley Index
to Victorian Periodicals -- the addition of more than 70 years of content
to House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, and the addition of two new
content pools to the collection's bibliographic spine: C19: The Nineteenth
Century Index.
"We're aggressively expanding and enhancing our 19th century product
offering, reinforcing our position as the premier research source," said
David "Skip" Prichard, president of ProQuest Information and Learning. "The
range of documents and sheer volume of content that ProQuest now holds --
millions and millions of pages -- is staggering, but the technological
framework that surrounds that content makes it all completely accessible,
completely organized and completely usable."
Upon completion, the new digital archive British Periodicals Collection
I will offer immediate access to high-resolution facsimile page images and
searchable full text from full runs of 160 periodicals in the UMI(R) Early
British Periodicals microform collection spanning from the late 17th
century to the early 19th century. The most recent release offers 70 key
titles with precision searching by content type for advertisements,
reviews, letters, poems, maps and illustrations; and detailed title
histories with key editors and contributors.
The digital release of Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals
includes more than 90,000 records from 45 important British periodicals.
Indexed by scholars, this source adds valuable information by including
author attributions for articles that were originally published anonymously
or pseudonymously. This is the first web-based version of this famous
scholarly index which was previously available in print or on CD-ROM.
Wellesley can also be accessed within ProQuest's broader C19: The
Nineteenth Century Index. All information on articles, contributors,
pseudonyms and introductions about each periodical is fully searchable. For
example, when cross-searching with ProQuest's British Periodicals, C19: The
Nineteenth Century Index will deliver the breadth of a writer's work in
full text -- even those pieces that originally appeared unsigned or over a
pseudonym.
ProQuest's House of Commons Parliamentary Papers -- the most detailed
primary source for the study of 19th century Britain, its colonies, and the
wider world -- keeps growing. It now spans 1801 - 1945, and by the end of
2006 there will be continuous full-text coverage from 1801 - 1978 and
current content from 2004 - 2006. That's a total of 151,000 documents and
over 7 million pages of full text.
The organizing force behind these products -- and for 19th century
content in general -- is C19: The Nineteenth Century Index, a virtual road
map to an entire century's worth of research material. ProQuest has
expanded this popular finding tool to include two new sources: Poole's
Index to Periodical Literature -- and records from American archival
repositories. Poole's Index to Periodical Literature is the only systematic
article-level index to the subject matter of 19th century periodicals. On
completion in 1908, the Index covered 482,000 articles and 378,000 subjects
in 12,241 volumes of 479 British and American periodicals for the years
1802 - 1906. The addition of thousands of archive records allows C19 users
to easily identify the location of 19th century primary sources held in
archival collections across the United States.
ProQuest's 19th century collection features historical databases and
literature collections, with materials supporting research in philosophy,
history, science, fine arts, literature, and the social sciences. For more
information visit ProQuest on the web at http://www.proquest.com or call
1-800-521-0600.
About ProQuest Information and Learning
ProQuest Information and Learning is a world leader in collecting,
organizing, and publishing information for researchers, faculty, and
students in libraries and schools. It is widely known for its strength in
business and economics, general reference, genealogy, 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(R) Web-based online
information system, Chadwyck- Healey(R) electronic and microform resources,
UMI(R) microform and print reference products, eLibrary(R) and SIRS(R)
educational resources, and Serials Solutions e-resource access and
management solutions. ProQuest(R) Smart Search was named "Best Specialist
Search Product" by the International Information Industry Awards in late
2005. For more information about ProQuest Information and Learning, visit
http://www.il.proquest.com .
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