ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 12, 2006 - ProQuest Information and Learning launched a major enhancement to its nursing product line today. More than 100 full-text titles have been added to ProQuest Nursing Journals at no charge to customers, increasing the depth and range of content available. The product has been renamed ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source^TM to reflect the new content focus.

"Enhancements to this product were designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities, as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions," says Suzanne BeDell, senior vice president of publishing for ProQuest Information and Learning.  "These improvements address the evolving needs of healthcare professionals, and are part of ProQuest's ongoing program to support future research in the nursing field."

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, consumer health, and more.  The new content consists of 110 full-text, active titles with subject coverage to support allied health studies such as cytology and histology, hematology, orthopedics and traumatology, radiology and nuclear medicine, nutrition, and pharmacology. 

In addition to the new content and product name, several other enhancements have recently been made.  ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source has grown to over 560 full text journals, nearly all available in PDF image formats. Full-image content provides complete page facsimiles, similar to photocopies. Users can view articles exactly as they appear in its original publication – the same page layout with all the charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements essential in medical research.  ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health is also the exclusive source for more than 10,000 full-text nursing dissertations and master’s theses.

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source is part of ProQuest growing collection of STM databases, which include ProQuest Medical Library, ProQuest Health Management, Evidence Matters, and MyiLibrary Medical eBooks. 

ProQuest offers PubMed LinkOut into a library’s online journal holdings within ProQuest.  This feature allows a library to easily generate custom ProQuest holdings files which are automatically uploaded into their library’s profile in the PubMed LinkOut system, and are updated weekly.  These holdings files generate links from article citations presented in PubMed to the corresponding full-text articles available through the library’s subscription with ProQuest. 

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