ProQuest Drops CSA from Name

ProQuest CSA is dumping that name, which it adopted after the merger of ProQuest Information and Learning and CSA last December. The company now will be known only as ProQuest—which is what everyone calls it. The CSA handle will be retained in product names like CSA Illumina, CSA Illustrata, and more. ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn said that while the ProQuest CSA name “has served us well, helping customers and partners become acquainted with us as a combined company, we gathered input from literally hundreds of customers and saw a clear, common theme: keep it simple.”

ProQuest and Scopus also have cut a “reciprocal searching and linking partnership that will expand the research capabilities of mutual customers of CSA Illumina™ and Scopus®.” CSA Illumina users will be able to find 4500 Scopus titles in the natural sciences, business, and economics directly integrated in their search results. In turn, Scopus users “will be able to view records from selected leading ProQuest databases in social sciences from the CSA Illumina platform.”