ANN ARBOR, Mich., January 14, 2005 - ProQuest Information and Learning announced an extension and expansion of two agreements with Factiva. Under the expanded distribution agreement, ProQuest continues to provide the latest news and business information from Factiva to academic and public libraries, now on a global basis. In an information provider agreement that brings broader access for customers, ProQuest continues to provide Factiva with key newspaper and journal content for integration into Factiva products.

Factiva, a joint venture between Dow Jones and Company and Reuters Group - two of the world's leading providers of business and financial news – offers comprehensive coverage of essential business content, including the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires, and the Associated Press.  By providing authoritative full-text electronic coverage of the world’s most credible and credentialed sources, Factiva enables users to monitor and understand the challenges of today’s business environment. 

ProQuest Information and Learning, a unit of ProQuest Company, is an electronic publisher of content for libraries and educational institutions worldwide.  Like Factiva, ProQuest is a leading provider of business content. Its ABI/INFORM® suite of business databases is installed in 45 of the top 50 business schools as ranked by U.S. News and World Report.   The company is a leading content provider in the academic market.

“Together, ProQuest and Factiva are partners, serving business research and curriculum needs in the academic space. We will work collaboratively on product enhancements and new product ideas.  We plan to leverage ProQuest’s technical acumen for the academic and public library space with Factiva’s premium news and information content and services to provide the best business news resource in the library market,” said Ron Klausner, president of ProQuest Information and Learning.

Under the extended distribution agreement, ProQuest expands to global distribution of Factiva’s flagship product, Factiva.com, for the academic market, including for-profit and distance-learning institutions, and public libraries.  Factiva.com provides an unrivalled collection of 9,000 sources from 152 countries and in 22 languages.  The collection includes thousands of global and local newspapers, journals, magazines, newswires, company reports, and pictures.  Serving a variety of users, from students and faculty to executives and professional searchers, Factiva.com enables users to continuously monitor today’s news and to find relevant information on companies, industries and people worldwide. 

ProQuest and Factiva’s multi-year extension of the information provider agreement will leverage ProQuest resources within Factiva’s suite of services.  ProQuest will continue to provide timely delivery of key newspaper and journal titles, meeting the information needs of business subscribers to Factiva worldwide.

“Factiva.com is a real-world business tool that can help students become better informed as they prepare for life beyond the university,” said Clare Hart, president and CEO of Factiva.“The information provider agreement ensures continued and expanded access to ProQuest content for our customers, a portfolio of resources we know they hold in high regard.”

Free trials are available. Libraries may receive more information by contacting their account representative at 1-800-521-0600, ext. 3183 or 3452 (outside the U.S., call +44-1-223-215-512) or pqsales@il.proquest.com. Editors may call 1-800-521-0600, ext. 6489 or email pr@il.proquest.com.

About Factiva

Factiva®, a Dow Jones and Reuters company, provides world-class global content, including Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and The Wall Street Journal – unduplicated in a single service elsewhere. Factiva offers the only single content solution with multiple language interfaces and multilingual content covering 9,000 sources. Factiva’s products and services help companies integrate news and business information into their daily workflow to increase organizational intelligence and leverage external and internal content within the knowledge management function. Factiva’s content management and integration services are used by leading organizations around the world.
Built on industry standards and open architecture, Factiva products deliver flexible, extensible, customizable solutions to enable easy integration and use in the enterprise. Editorial and technical consulting, taxonomy application, integration expertise and e-learning programs reflect Factiva’s innovative approach to delivering solutions beyond the content.  For more information visit: www.factiva.com/press.

About ProQuest
ProQuest creates specialized information resources and technologies that propel successful research, discovery, and lifelong learning. A global leader in serving libraries of all types, ProQuest offers the expertise of such respected brands as Chadwyck-Healey™, UMI®, SIRS®, and eLibrary®. With Serials Solutions®, Ulrich's™, RefWorks®, COS™, Dialog® and now Bowker® part of the ProQuest brand family, the company supports the breadth of the information community with innovative discovery solutions that power the business of books and the best in research experience.

More than a content provider or aggregator, ProQuest is an information partner, creating indispensable research solutions that connect people and information. Through innovative, user-centered discovery technology, ProQuest offers billions of pages of global content that includes historical newspapers, dissertations, and uniquely relevant resources for researchers of any age and sophistication—including content not likely to be digitized by others. Inspired by its customers and their end users, ProQuest is working toward a future that blends information accessibility with community to further enhance learning and encourage lifelong enrichment.

For more information, visit www.proquest.com or the ProQuest parent company website, www.cig.com.