ProQuest Acquires Dialog

"I am thrilled about what this means both to ProQuest and Dialog and to the customers we serve. Both companies have complementary products and content that are essential to libraries and serious researchers," said Mr. Kahn. "I'm fully confident that under Suzanne's leadership, Dialog will be rededicated to these core markets, serving them with groundbreaking tools and technology."

Ms. BeDell is a 20-year veteran of the publishing industry, with roles in publishing, sales, and product development at Thomson, Mosby, Inc., and McGraw- Hill. She joined ProQuest in 2001 as Vice President and Publisher and played instrumental roles in the development of such critically-acclaimed products as Black Studies Center and ProQuest Central, the world's largest aggregated full-text database. As Senior Vice President, she has managed ProQuest's Higher Education Publishing area since 2006.

"I've been a big fan of Dialog for a long time. It has a great future. I'm personally very excited about the opportunity to work with its team of professionals," said Ms. BeDell. "Together, we'll renew Dialog's focus on the information intermediary, the importance of professional search and dedication to providing the broadest possible content sets against which to search."

Ms. BeDell will maintain offices inAnn Arbor andCary, North Carolina.

About ProQuest

ProQuest provides seamless access to and navigation of more than 125 billion digital pages of the world's scholarship, delivering it to the desktop and into the workflow of serious researchers in multiple fields, from arts, literature, and social science to science, technology, and medicine. ProQuest is part of Cambridge Information Group (http://www.cambridgeinformationgroup.com).

ProQuest's vast content pools are available to researchers through libraries of all types and include the world's largest digital newspaper archive, periodical databases comprising the output of more than 9,000 titles and spanning more than 500 years, the pre-eminent dissertation collection, and various other scholarly collections. Users access the information through the ProQuest(R), CSA Illumina(TM), Dialog(R) and Datastar(R) online information systems, Chadwyck-Healey(TM) electronic and microform resources, UMI(R) microform and print reference products, eLibrary(R) and SIRS(R) educational resources, Ulrich's(R) Serials Analysis System, COS Scholar Universe, and Serials Solutions(R) resource management tools. Through the expertise of business units Serials Solutions and RefWorks/COS, ProQuest provides technological tools that allow researchers and libraries to better manage and use their information resources. For more information, visit http://www.proquest.com, http://www.proquest.co.uk, and http://www.csa.com.

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