Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, is leveraging its extensive research of end-users, librarians and faculty search behaviours to drive the creation of an all-new platform that will redefine search experience for library users worldwide. To be available in 2010, the new platform will facilitate and simplify access to the broad range of authoritative resources, content, and services that only ProQuest offers. The ProQuest, CSA Illumina, and selected Chadwyck-Healey products will be available on the new platform at launch, and all ProQuest products will migrate to the new platform over time.
The new platform is being built from the ground up based on years of extensive student observations, surveys of more than 6,000 end users, focus groups, and individual interviews, along with ongoing interactions with users, librarians and faculty. Its core is a single platform for all content, with a single content store, single search engine, and consolidated user experience. Users will experience deeper discovery of information, and will then be able to organise and use their findings more efficiently and with greater precision.
The new platform will enable users to quickly and easily narrow in on the answers they need by searching across all content and a broad range of complementary sources, including leading journals, periodicals, news content, rare and archival information, dissertations, research reports, ebooks and multimedia. Powerful navigation tools will surface the most relevant content of any format in context to help guide users in their search. Sophisticated post-search manipulation features will make it faster and easier to zero in on the most relevant results. For libraries, the consolidated platform will offer new administrative and reporting tools that provide greater flexibility in customising the experience to their institution's needs.
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