Swets Blackwell and ProQuest Form Strategic Partnership to Enhance Access to E-journals and Periodical Databases (fwd) Birdie MacLennan 03 Oct 2001 15:09 UTC
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 16:34:20 +0200 From: Sarah Kellman <skellman@SWETS.NL> Subject: Swets Blackwell and ProQuest Form Strategic Partnership to Enhance Access to E-journals and Periodical Databases PRESS RELEASE Lisse, the Netherlands and Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA October 2, 2001 Swets Blackwell and ProQuest Form Strategic Partnership to Enhance Access to E-journals and Periodical Databases Reciprocal linking agreement enables seamless access to e-journals by ProQuest® online users with SwetsnetNavigator subscriptions; distribution agreement broadens Swets Blackwell representation of ProQuest online service Swets Blackwell and ProQuest Company's (NYSE: PQE) Information and Learning unit announced today the beginning of a strategic partnership with the signing of agreements that will allow both companies to provide their customers with broader access to journal literature in electronic form. The partnership is effective immediately. Reciprocal Linking Agreement Makes More Journals Accessible In the first of two simultaneous agreements, seamless linking from the ProQuest® online information system will be provided to the nearly 6,000 full-text e-journals available via Swets Blackwell's SwetsnetNavigator service. ProQuest CrossLinks(tm) technology and Swets Blackwell's multi-level linking technology will enable direct linking to articles in e-journals available via the SwetsnetNavigator system. Library customers who subscribe to both ProQuest and SwetsnetNavigator will be able to access their e-journal subscriptions directly through ProQuest. "This linking agreement brings together two of the most widely used content delivery systems for libraries around the world: ProQuest for full-text subscription databases and SwetsnetNavigator for e-journals," said Joe Reynolds, president and CEO of ProQuest Information and Learning. "Both companies provide quality sources, and the partnership is a great and natural fit. Libraries--our mutual customers--will soon be able to seamlessly link between the two systems to find the full text. This ability will greatly enhance the library user's experience. Finding information in one search rather than multiple searches in multiple sources makes for a more efficient and effective research process. This is a big win for ProQuest, Swets Blackwell, our customers, and their patrons, students, and faculty." Customers who subscribe concurrently to ProQuest's ABI/INFORM® database and SwetsnetNavigator will gain seamless access to nearly 200 more business and management journals. Subscribers to ProQuest's Medline with Full Text with a concurrent subscription to SwetsnetNavigator will be able to link directly to some 1,500 additional health science journals. Distribution Agreement Expands Reach of ProQuest and Swets Blackwell's Offerings In the second step of the partnership, Swets Blackwell has been appointed to distribute the ProQuest online information system to the corporate market in the USA, Canada, and most countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Swets Blackwell will also have broader non-exclusive distribution rights in the academic library market in most countries in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. News Media Contacts: Tina Creguer Sarah Kellman Director, Communications/PR Communications Executive ProQuest Information and Learning Swets Blackwell 1-800-521-0600, ext. 3805 +31 252 435 584 734-761-4700, ext. 3805 press@nl.swetsblackwell.com pr@il.proquest.com