"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/proquest/em-notecontent.shtml to receive notification when new content is added.
About University of California PressThe 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.
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