Scholar Universe, a business unit of ContentScan, Inc, is a leading provider of community profile content covering universities and their faculties. The Scholar Universe service contains a broad range of author, researcher, and faculty profile information. ProQuest has licensed a customized subset of Scholar Universe’s profiles that complements ABI/INFORM's author community.
“By adding Scholar Universe’s researcher and institutional profiles, ProQuest can offer our customers greater depth in their research. The profiles will provide more context for the important journal and non-periodical content in ABI/INFORM, as well as increased confidence and accuracy in author searches for our users,” said Suzanne BeDell, vice president, higher education publishing, ProQuest.
With the new agreement, Scholar Universe will provide customized Authority Profile content, document linking, and community search. ProQuest will provide citation information for Scholar Universe to integrate with the Authority Profiles.
“We’re pleased that our Authority Profiles covering top business school faculty members and management researchers will be available through ProQuest. Our verified links between authors and their publications will provide users with new pathways to the relevant content available within ABI/INFORM,” said Samir Singh, president of ContentScan.
The program will launch with approximately 40,000 author profiles and 3,000 institutional profiles. Author profiles typically contain name, affiliation, most current contact information, personal web page, research interests, and publication list (may include dissertations.) Institution profiles include universities and their schools of business, and departments, such as economics, political science, law, and public affairs. Institutional profiles generally include name, address, web page and email address.
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 the new content is added.
Free trials of ABI/INFORM databases 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 Scholar Universe
Scholar Universe, a business unit of ContentScan, Inc., publishes and distributes Authority ProfilesTM to leading information companies, universities, associations, and online portals. Scholar Universe provides a single trusted location to store, manage, search, and broadly distribute professional profile content to a rich network of publisher partners who rely on accurate and up-to-date author and faculty information. Founded in 2001, ContentScan is a privately-held company based in San Diego, California. For more information on Scholar Universe, please visit www.scholaruniverse.com.
About ProQuest Information and Learning
ProQuest Information and Learning is a world leader in collecting, organizing, and publishing information worldwide for 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, eLibrary® and SIRS® educational resources, and XanEdu® online faculty and student resources. For more information about ProQuest Information and Learning, visit www.il.proquest.com.
ProQuest Information and Learning is a business unit of ProQuest Company (www.proquestcompany.com), which was recently named one of the 100 fastest growing technology companies in the United States by Business 2.0.
