The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) has announced a partnership with ProQuest, a Cambridge Information Group company, to bring Periodicals Archive Online to leading research institutions in Canada. The Periodicals Archive Online will now be available to 67 key research institutions in Canada through an arrangement between Micromedia ProQuest and the CRKN.
The agreement is part of the company's ongoing initiative to expand access to the world's most significant research collections. It builds upon earlier agreements to provide Canada's Heritage from 1844 - The Globe and Mail, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, and the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 19th and 20th Centuries. Periodicals Archive Online is known for its access to international, scholarly literature from 37 subject areas in the arts, humanities and social sciences, spanning nearly 200 years.
Periodicals Archive Online's six multidisciplinary collections offer a total of 500 full-run titles with more than 1.7 million articles and 10 million pages in full text. Nearly 20 percent of the titles from the databases are in languages other than English, including coverage of leading research publications in French, Spanish, and German. Its platform includes powerful features that support the research process. For instance, a Quick Search feature on every page of the service is augmented by sophisticated 'post-search' results filtering that help users get to relevant results quickly. A special 'My Archive' feature saves searches, records and notes for future research sessions in a personal research area. Periodicals Archive Online also offers free MARC records, Z39.50 support for federated searching, OpenURL compliance, citation software support, and COUNTER-compliant usage statistics.
