"We're pleased to add these prestigious, high-quality titles to our medical databases," said Roger Tritton, publisher for ProQuest Information and Learning. "This agreement represents a major commitment to ProQuest's medical publishing initiatives and enhances our offerings to academic and medical libraries."

Included are such key titles as Investigational New Drugs, Journal of Clinical Immunology, Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia, Digestive Diseases and Sciences, and Pharmaceutical Research. Full text for all new Kluwer title additions will begin with 1999 issues and move forward. Current content will be subject to a 12-month embargo.

ProQuest customers can sign up for the ProQuest specialized email notification lists at: www.proquest.com/proquest/em-notecontent.shtml to receive notification when new content is added.

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