Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has acquired UK-based Expert Information, publishers of Index to Theses and Theses.com, premier sources of hundreds of thousands of citations and abstracts for British and Irish dissertations and master's theses. The addition of Expert Information will continue expanding the global impact of ProQuest's acclaimed dissertations publishing programme, which includes ProQuest Dissertations and Theses, a widely consulted resource for graduate research.
Expert Information abstracts and indexes more than a half million dissertations and theses, covering more than seventy years and continually growing by nearly 20,000 records per year. The content has been available via ProQuest through its product PQDT: U.K. & Ireland. Now, as part of the ProQuest family, the publishing programme behind Expert Information's products will expand to meet the global information needs of researchers.
Expert Information joins one of the world's premier dissertation publishing programmes. About 99 percent of North American graduate degree-granting institutions contribute their students' works to the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database, enabling them to be easily discovered and accessed. Chosen by United States Library of Congress as the official archive of American dissertations, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses encompasses more than one quarter of a billion pages. Its 1.4 million digital dissertations and 2.9 million records create a unique and continually growing trove of research.
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