ANN ARBOR, Mich., October 29, 2003 - ProQuest Information and Learning will link abstract and index records from its online databases with the full text of the highly regarded scholarly journals in Project MUSE. Project MUSE is a collection of 220 peer-reviewed scholarly journals from 36 publishers in humanities and social sciences managed by The Johns Hopkins University Press in cooperation with the Milton S. Eisenhower Library.

The distribution agreement brings links to the full text of journals in Project MUSE to ProQuest® online databases, including Literature Online, PCI-Full Text, International Index to Music Periodicals and International Index to Performing Arts. ProQuest Information and Learning, a unit of ProQuest Company, creates and distributes databases for libraries and educational institutions worldwide. Project MUSE offers its journals online by subscription to educational institutions. The two services have agreed to provide links between their databases for institutions that subscribe to both services.

"Students and faculty using Project MUSE will benefit tremendously from links between the journals in Project MUSE and ProQuest's high-quality content in the humanities and social sciences," said Aileen McHugh, Director of Electronic Publishing, The Johns Hopkins University Press. "This linking agreement will enrich the online experience of users in the humanities and social science, who are often frustrated with the lack of online material in these areas."

Included are key titles such as Language, American Literature, Callaloo, American Literary History, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, The Opera Quarterly, Shakespeare Quarterly, TDR/The Drama Review, Victorian Studies, and Modern Fiction Studies.

"We are excited to be able to link our content to the high quality scholarly content offered by Project Muse.  Linking provides the user with the best alternative to get at exactly the right full-text content to meet their needs.  We are committed to helping our customers link between the scholarly content in our databases and content that they own, wherever it resides" said Mary Sauer-Games, Director of Publishing for ProQuest.

Implementation will begin soon. Customers of both ProQuest and Project MUSE 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 the links are added.

ProQuest supports OpenURL linking for both inbound and outbound links. Flexibility characterizes ProQuest's outbound linking capabilities, enabling support even for link targets that are not yet OpenURL compliant.

ProQuest has established linking agreements with several key providers such as JSTOR, Swets, Ingenta, OCLC, and more. ProQuest supports linking via CrossRef which enable access to content for more than 200 publishers. In addition, ProQuest proactively facilitates linking with all major link resolvers and A-Z journal list service providers such as Serials Solutions (ArticleLinker, JournalLinker), ExLibris (SFX), Endeavor (LinkFinder Plus), Innovative Interfaces (WebBridge), TDNet, etc., and document retrieval services such as InfoTrieve and CISTI.

To learn more about ProQuest products, libraries may contact their account representative at 1-800-521-0600, ext. 3183 or 3452 (outside the U.S., call +44-1-223-215-512) or pqsales@il.proquest.com. Editors may call 1-800-521-0600, ext. 6489 or email pr@il.proquest.com.

 

About Project MUSE

Project MUSE's mission is to provide electronic access to primary current periodical content from not-for-profit publishers in the humanities and social sciences to research libraries, master's colleges and universities, four-year colleges, and a mix of community colleges, public libraries, high schools and other special libraries nationally and internationally. Managed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the Milton S. Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins University and the participating publishers, MUSE currently provides online access to over 200 titles from more than 30 publishers to its nearly 1,000 subscribing libraries worldwide. The Project has been hailed for its library-friendly licensing and usage policies, easy online navigation, and reasonable pricing plans.  For more information on MUSE, log onto http://muse.jhu.edu.

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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