Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press has joined the ProQuest family of companies. The companies' complementary content assets will enable libraries, faculty and students to improve research and learning outcomes.
The acquisition brings together Alexander Street's valuable video, music and unique primary source collections with ProQuest's extensive aggregation of content, which encompasses nearly a billion searchable items in 20 academic disciplines as well as 270 million pages of historical primary source collections. Together, the companies will deliver an extraordinary and diverse range of content that will seamlessly connect text and video, improving contextual and serendipitous discovery.
The business, which will be known as 'Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company', will be led by Stephen Rhind-Tutt, its current president. It will maintain its headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, and Rhind-Tutt joins ProQuest, reporting to Rafael Sidi, Senior Vice President and General Manager, ProQuest Information Solutions. ProQuest Holdings is acquiring the business through its subsidiary R.R. Bowker.
Offering together ProQuest's innovative content and research solutions, as well as its market-leading library management and discovery resources, with Alexander Street's unique video, music and historical collections will significantly enrich the research experience. For example, as ProQuest makes available Alexander Street content on its award-winning platform, users will have seamless access to relevant content in multiple formats - video, journal articles, news, dissertations, ebooks - improving discoverability. Librarians will be able to acquire robust collections that span text and video and are available via multiple purchase models, including PDA, subscription and perpetual access.
Alexander Street's recently launched 'Open Music Library,' an open network of digital resources for the study of music, will also be enhanced, further developing the unique combination of community collaboration and premium and publicly-available content.
The companies are committed to a smooth transition, providing the highest quality customer care and support to both ProQuest and Alexander Street customers. Customers will continue to have the information solutions they know and trust from both companies with no disruption to their libraries, researchers or institutions.
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