Information resources and technologies provider ProQuest, US, has signed an agreement with the American Economic Association (AEA) to distribute its journals to libraries around the world. The addition of the seven journals, including the historic American Economic Review, is part of major content expansion by ProQuest.
Since the beginning of 2011, as ProQuest launched its all-new search platform worldwide, the company has steadily signed new and renewed agreements with major publishers including The Economist Intelligence Unit, Palgrave Macmillan, Slack, Cambridge University Press, Nature Publishing Group, Dow Jones, Springer, The Lancet publishing group of Elsevier, MIT Sloan and dozens more.
The peer-reviewed journals of the AEA contain seminal research in economics in all fields of economics as well as literature reviews and current policy discussions. They include the top-ranked American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, Journal of Economic Perspectives, and the four recently launched American Economic Journals: Applied Economics, Economic Policy, Macroeconomics and Microeconomics, all of which will be added to ProQuest's ABI/INFORM database.
ProQuest's ABI/INFORM database is a widely-used business research resource that has undergone steady growth. Over the past two years, it has added 50 percent more titles and nearly doubled its active full text. A significant portion of the growth has been in economics, supporting ProQuest's strategy of building full text content that complements its abstract and index products. The combination of ABI/INFORM, EconLit and IBSS offers a total of nearly 9,300 indexed resources and more than 5,000 in full text.
Distribution via ProQuest's new platform means AEA publications will be accessible in a powerful, end-to-end research experience that fuels innovation. The platform unifies all of a library's ProQuest holdings in one search, streamlining and broadening discovery, enabling faster, deeper dives into multiple content sources and types. Further, ProQuest's patented deep indexing technology will enable discovery of content in charts and graphs, moving beyond text alone.
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