“We have been asked by many of our customers to bring electronic medical books to them and we’re responding with titles that are truly at the top of the list for libraries,” said Roger Tritton, ProQuest senior publisher. “Having surveyed a number of potential e-book platforms we selected MyiLibrary as it offers a spectacular range of books on a flexible, easy-to-use platform, incorporating key features such as full-text searching that complement ProQuest’s existing medical content in countless ways.”

This agreement with MyiLibrary continues ProQuest’s ongoing strategy to expand its STM content pool with highly respected and authoritative titles. The company recently signed licensing agreements with Nature Publishing Group, NewsRx and Alliance Publishing. In the past six months, ProQuest has added more than 150 new journal and other periodicals to ProQuest Medical and Health Complete.

Beginning immediately, titles including a range of Oxford Textbooks and Oxford Handbooks as well as other key titles from Medical Publishers Wiley, Elsevier, Springer, Blackwells and others will be offered on the MyiLibrary e-book platform. Users can choose to purchase individual medical titles, or subscribe to complete collections. Metadata from the books will be loaded onto the ProQuest platform allowing users to cross-search between information in full-text periodicals on ProQuest and books in the MyiLibrary collection.

Linda Vendryes, President of MyiLibrary commented “We are delighted to have an agreement with ProQuest that will see a complete range of Medical, Nursing and Health e-book titles offered alongside the ProQuest full-text medical titles. With the ability to cross search the two resources, we have created the most powerful content offering available today to libraries in the health and medical fields”.

For more information about medical and health products from ProQuest visit the company on the Web at www.il.proquest.com.

ProQuest Information and Learning is a world leader in collecting, organizing, and publishing information worldwide for researchers, faculty, and students in libraries and schools. Known widely for its strength in business and economics, general reference, humanities, social sciences, and STM content, the company develops premium databases comprising periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, out-of-print books, and other scholarly information from more than 8,500 publishers worldwide.  Users access the information through the ProQuest® Web-based online information system, Chadwyck-Healey^TM electronic and microform resources, UMI® microform and print reference products, eLibrary®, SIRS® and Voyager Expanded Learning educational resources, and XanEdu® online faculty and student resources.  For more information about ProQuest Information and Learning, visit www.il.proquest.com.

ProQuest Information and Learning is a business unit of ProQuest Company (www.proquestcompany.com), which was recently named one of the top 100 fastest growing technology companies in the United States by Business 2.0 and one of the 200 best small companies by Forbes Magazine.

MyiLibrary is one of the world’s leading e-content hosting platforms with nearly 2 million patrons regularly accessing some of the most up to date and authoritative content available today. Collections include output from many of the world’s largest scientific, technical and medical publishers, such as Wiley, Taylor and Francis, Springer, Elsevier and Oxford University Press, as well as unique collections from inter-governmental organizations such as the International Labour Organization, World Health Organization and the World Bank.

MyiLibrary offers libraries throughout the world direct access to thousands of e-books from hundreds of prestigious publishers and is the chosen platform for the delivery of medical and health e-books to the NHS England.

For more information please contact Nadine Prowse, Electronic Products Manager, nprowse@couttsinfo.com