ProQuest set to end search woes with its forthcoming platform

ProQuest, the provider of specialist information resources, will launch a search platform that unifies the experience of search by providing access to the company’s range of resources, content and services.

Launching next year, the unnamed platform will integrate the company’s products including CSA Illumina and selected Chadwyck-Healey and later migrate all its products to the solution. The product-idea follows ProQuest’s research on search behaviours of more than 6,000 end users, librarians and faculties and is based on their feedback and requirements.

Marty Kahn, chief executive, ProQuest said: “We’re simplifying administration of e-resources for librarians.” He also added that it has assembled the right assets and fostered strategic partnerships to offer a careful combination of content and technology that are meaningful to all types of library users.

The platform will have features such as advanced post search manipulation tools and navigation tools for finding relevant data quickly. For librarians, it will offer new administrative and reporting tools that provide greater flexibility in customizing the experience to their institution’s needs.

Currently being tested, the platform will enhance users’ experience of discovering information and their ability to organize and use their findings more efficiently and precisely. Users will also be able to narrow in on the answers they need by searching across all content and a broad range of complementary sources, including leading journals, periodicals, news content, rare and archival information, dissertations, research reports, e-books and multimedia, ProQuest added.