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ProQuest and NCBI Offer PubMed LinkOut To ProQuest Medical Library
Direct access to more than 330 full-text journal titles in database
ANN ARBOR, Mich., November 10, 2003 -- ProQuest Information and Learning, in cooperation with NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information), is now offering PubMed LinkOut capabilities into ProQuest Medical Library. ProQuest Information and Learning, a unit of ProQuest Company, creates and distributes databases to libraries and educational institutions worldwide.

ProQuest Medical Library is a ProQuest® full-text journal database that provides in-depth coverage of all the major clinical and allied healthcare specialties including nursing, pediatrics, neurology, pharmacology, cardiology, physical therapy and many others. Coverage is global, and includes key titles such as The Lancet and Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) as well as specialty publications such as Annual Review of Immunology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Diabetes, and many more.

PubMed® is a database of citations and abstracts to biomedical and other life science journal literature, developed and managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

PubMed LinkOut will allow thousands of researchers, clinicians, and students worldwide who use the definitive PubMed service daily, direct access to more than 330 full-text titles in the ProQuest Medical Library database quickly and easily. Customers with valid IP-based access to the ProQuest service can take advantage of seamless navigation between the PubMed record and the corresponding full-text article hosted on the ProQuest platform.

"This partnership demonstrates ProQuest's commitment to the ongoing development of both linking technology and health and medical publishing," said ProQuest STM Publisher Roger Tritton. "Our growing number of medical library customers worldwide will benefit from the recent addition of content from major publishers including Kluwer to ProQuest databases and from integration of ProQuest resources into their most frequently used research tools."

Existing ProQuest full-text linking partners include SwetsWise, OCLC, Ingenta, JSTOR, and CrossRef. CrossRef includes: Science Direct, Wiley, Kluwer, Blackwell's Synergy, Emerald, Journals @ Ovid, Project MUSE, Springer, Taylor & Francis, and MetaPress.

Free trials are available. Libraries may receive more information by contacting 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 ProQuest Information and Learning

ProQuest Information and Learning is a world leader in collecting, organizing, and distributing information worldwide to researchers, faculty, and students in libraries and schools. Known widely for its strength in business and economics, general-reference, 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 8,500 publishers worldwide.  Users access the information through the ProQuest® Web-based online information system, Chadwyck-HealeyTM electronic and microform resources, UMI® microform and print reference products, eLibraryTM and SIRS educational resources, and XanEduTM online faculty and student resources.  For more information about ProQuest Information and Learning, visit www.il.proquest.com.

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