ProQuest: Adding Dialog to the Mix

摘要

ProQuest, a part of the Cambridge Information Group (CIG), continues to take giant steps to enhance its business. According to officials at the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based company, these enhancements are designed to position the firm for worldwide growth in its niche market, a direction the company has taken ever since it merged with CSA in 2007. This year has been particularly busy for ProQuest. For starters, 2008 generated plenty of new growth: 1. This winter, ProQuest acquired RefWorks, LLC, web-based research services for academic and research communities. 2. This spring, it acquired federated-search pioneer WebFeat. 3. This summer, it purchased Dialog from the Scientific business of Thomson Reuters. 4. And most recently, this fall it partnered with Google to digitize millions of pages of local newspaper collections for the open web.