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ProQuest Announces New Government Information Services

New solutions acquired from LexisNexis — CIS and UPA – to offer unprecedented access to deep archives of U.S. congressional, legislative and historic cultural content.

ANN ARBOR, Mich., January 7, 2011 – Just weeks after acquiring the acclaimed Congressional Information Service and University Publications of America product lines, ProQuest announces its new and expanding line of Government Information Services with the launch of the new ProQuest® Legislative Insight, enhancements to ProQuest® Congressional (formerly LexisNexis Congressional), and

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ProQuest and Google Partnership Will Unlock Newspaper Content

ANN ARBOR, Mich., September 8, 2008 — ProQuest has formed a partnership with Google that has the potential to bring millions of pages of newspaper content to the open web. The program allows web access to archives of both large and small newspapers. Without this initiative, these newspapers might never be digitized.

“Newspapers are the lifeblood of every community-with a wide ranging interest for a myriad of users. The demand for digitized newspaper archives is clearly

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Crovitz Joins ProQuest Board

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 21, 2008 — Veteran media executive L. Gordon Crovitz has joined the Board of Directors of ProQuest, a world leader in information publishing and a Cambridge Information Group (CIG) business. Mr. Crovitz has more than 25 years of U.S. and global business operations experience at Dow Jones, including his role as publisher of The Wall Street Journal.

“Gordon’s perspective on media and its evolving nature is closely aligned with ProQuest’s expanding business,”

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ProQuest Acquires Dialog

ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 1, 2008 — ProQuest has closed on its agreement to acquire the Dialog® business from ThomsonReuters and named industry veteran Suzanne BeDell as Dialog General Manager. Ms. BeDell will report to ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn.

“I am thrilled about what this means both to ProQuest and Dialog and to the customers we serve. Both companies have complementary products and content that are essential to libraries and serious researchers,” said Mr. Kahn. “I’m

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ProQuest Creates Single-point Access to Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 28, 2008 – ProQuest has published the first digital archive of the Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, the only reliable finding aid to the vast published output of the U.S. government. This online, searchable version of the Monthly Catalog, is the Government Printing Office’s (GPO) authorized bibliography of printed documents from all three branches of the U.S. government from years 1895 through 1976. ProQuest’s Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

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CRKN Partners with ProQuest to bring Periodicals Archive Online

ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 19, 2008 — The acclaimed Periodicals Archive Online will be available to 67 key research institutions in Canada through an arrangement between Micromedia ProQuest and the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN). Periodicals Archive Online is renowned for its access to international, scholarly literature from 37 subject areas in the arts, humanities and social sciences, spanning nearly 200 years. CRKN is expanding the universe of digital information to build research capacity in

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