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ProQuest Smart Search received the award for "Best Specialist Search Product" at the International Information Industry Awards ceremony held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London on November 30, 2005.

The award is presented annually to 'the most innovative product that best helps a user through

"We are proud to be recognized for the prestigious 'Best Specialist Search Product' for ProQuest Smart Search", says Suzanne BeDell, Vice President of Publishing. "This technology has been embraced by all levels of users, from novices to those familiar with constructing Boolean queries. We are very pleased with how Smart Search works for and with the user to provide better results, rather than just more results."

Originally released in late 2004, ProQuest Smart Search has been refined and developed throughout 2005. Globally, usage statistics have increase search success and accuracy by more than 20% (as measured by ProQuest through extensive user testing).

ProQuest Smart Search taps into ProQuest's powerful indexing to supercharge results, analyzing a user's search, and then offering suggestions for related topics and publications at the top of the results screen. It uses a variety of techniques to map a user's search terms to relevant items in ProQuest's controlled vocabulary. These techniques analyze index term occurrence patterns, as well as comparing a user's current search against previously run searches.

Since its launch, ProQuest Smart Search has attracted significant interest from the library and information sector worldwide. Soon after it was launched ProQuest Smart Search was rated a perfect five stars for "Searchability" in the The Charleston Advisor, by reviewer David Bickford, University Librarian at the University of Phoenix.

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• Dissertations Volume/Issue
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• Dateline
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Links can be enabled with no extra effort on the library's part. When users click on a link, the Safari chapter appears in a separate browser window, within the powerful Safari interface. There users can take full advantage of its many capabilities.

We're currently loading metadata from Safari Business Books Online into ABI/INFORM for seamless linking. The initial release provides ABI/INFORM-quality indexing for over 250 Safari business books. The content base will grow steadily to ultimately accommodate some 1,000 books.

We're making similar innovations in the healthcare information area. Our ProQuest medical databases are keeping pace with the ever-growing presence of open-access publishing. We've just enhanced our medical offerings with links to the full text of the open-access journals published by BIOMED Central on the Internet.

National Library of Medicine standard indexing is available for BIOMED Central's open-access journals, while links to the open-access articles are now included-and enabled-in ProQuest Health & Medical Complete, ProQuest Biology Journals, and ProQuest Medical Library.

RSS feeds have been around for years but are only now beginning to surface as a way to disseminate information on the Web. For more click here

My Research and the Marked List page has been combined into a single feature called My Research. The tab at the top of every page has been updated to display a single “My Research” selection. The search results page has also been updated so the My Research options (Email/Cite/Export) will be added to the “yellow bar” above the first result. For more information on My Research click here.

The ProQuest interface has been enhanced with the addition of four new interface languages:

• Italian
• Russian
• Polish
• Norwegian

Institutions can set up a custom login link to access a specific language, as well as, use the language selection dropdown box available in the interface.

In addition ten new article translation languages have been added, bringing the total number of languages to twelve:

• Spanish
• Portuguese
• French
• German
• Italian
• Russian
• Polish
• Chinese-simplified
• Chinese-traditional
• Japanese
• Korean
• Turkish

Two new citation style formats are now available:

• Harvard
• Vancouver

New local administrator interface - ProQuest is excited to announce the release of a new, more intuitive Local Administrator (LAD) user interface. It's now even easier to manage your accounts, customize search interface preferences, administer links to external e-resources, etc. See a preview of the new interface.

Profiles that include dissertations are hyperlinked to the best available format for that dissertation

Users can elect to be notified via email when additional content of interest is available in your ProQuest subscription.

Now it is even easier to setup and use your library's bar code to authenticate users to access ProQuest databases.

Durable links just got shorter - Improved technology allows ProQuest to shorten durable links found in the article citation and within My Research. For more information on My Research click here.

ProQuest has developed an XML gateway server to expand support for interoperability of ProQuest databases in your library's e-resource environment. As an alternative to the current Z39.50 interface, the XML gateway will enable better search and retrieval functionality for federated searching of ProQuest databases. The ProQuest XML Gateway design draws from the SRW/U model in keeping with NISO's Metasearch Initiative. For more information, go here.