InfoTech: New Partnerships for ProQuest

by Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 07/16/2007

InfoTech: New Partnerships for ProQuest

Partnering is becoming the name of the information game, and ProQuest is playing it. The company has signed a multiyear agreement with the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) to make “key AAS collections available to libraries everywhere.” The initial phase of the deal will see content from the AAS’s collection put online and on microfilm for the first time. Proquest is supplying access to the digitized content through its HeritageQuest Online collection of genealogies, local histories, and other primary source materials like census records. The microfilm, for those still using it, will be included in the UMI Genealogy and Local History collection. Additionally, ProQuest is collaborating with the American Meteorological Society (AMS) “to incorporate content from AMS-published journals into CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences database. Some of the titles included in the deal are Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Earth Interactions, Journal of Applied Meteorology, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Journal of Climate, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Monthly Weather Review, and Weather and Forecasting.