ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 27, 2003 - ProQuest Company’s (NYSE: PQE) Information and Learning unit announced an agreement with University of California Press that will bring the full text of 30 highly regarded academic journals to the company’s ProQuest® online databases, including ProQuest Research Library™, Literature Online, Periodicals Contents Index - Full Text™, Ethnic NewsWatch, International Index to Music Periodicals and other databases. The agreement allows ProQuest to distribute the University of California Press journal content electronically to educational institutions, libraries, and other markets around the world.

"University of California Press is one of the top five university publishers in the nation," said Steven Hall, senior vice president, publishing for ProQuest Information and Learning.  "This portfolio of excellent journals, with its broad range of disciplines, accessibility and timeliness, will significantly enhance ProQuest's humanities and social sciences offerings to academic libraries."

Included are key titles such as Asian Survey, Film Quarterly, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, The Journal of Musicology, Journal of Palestine Studies, Law and Literature, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Music Perception, Music Theory Spectrum, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Social Problems and The Sociological Quarterly.

The agreement granting current full text rights will be effective January 1, 2004. Some content will be subject to a three to six month embargo. In addition, the agreement grants ProQuest rights to digitize complete backfiles of selected titles as part of the company's PCI Full Text archival database.

ProQuest customers can sign up for the ProQuest specialized email notification lists at: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/site/forms/mailinglist.shtml to receive notification when new content is added.

 

About University of California Press

The University of California Press was established in 1893. It has earned worldwide recognition for its innovative titles and excellence in book design and production. As the nonprofit publishing arm of the University of California, the Press publishes a full spectrum of distinguished works. It is especially well known for pioneering books on critical social issues, the collected writings of great authors, special editions of classics, beautifully crafted art books, major historical studies, and monumental works of research. The Journals Division of the Press currently publishes 32 scholarly journals. The vast majority are in the humanities and social sciences, with concentrations in musicology, history, cultural studies, sociology, law and area studies.

 

About ProQuest
ProQuest creates specialized information resources and technologies that propel successful research, discovery, and lifelong learning. A global leader in serving libraries of all types, ProQuest offers the expertise of such respected brands as Chadwyck-Healey™, UMI®, SIRS®, and eLibrary®. With Serials Solutions®, Ulrich's™, RefWorks®, COS™, Dialog® and now Bowker® part of the ProQuest brand family, the company supports the breadth of the information community with innovative discovery solutions that power the business of books and the best in research experience.

More than a content provider or aggregator, ProQuest is an information partner, creating indispensable research solutions that connect people and information. Through innovative, user-centered discovery technology, ProQuest offers billions of pages of global content that includes historical newspapers, dissertations, and uniquely relevant resources for researchers of any age and sophistication—including content not likely to be digitized by others. Inspired by its customers and their end users, ProQuest is working toward a future that blends information accessibility with community to further enhance learning and encourage lifelong enrichment.

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