ANN ARBOR, Mich., October 25, 2006 - ProQuest Information and Learning has announced that ProQuest MyiLibrary Medical now offers COUNTER-compliant usage statistics, and has launched major updates to its eBook platform. In addition, MyiLibrary content will now be searchable on the ProQuest platform.

Leah Krevit, Associate Director of Collections Management at the Houston Academy of Medicine noted, "The updated MyiLibrary platform offers everything we could need from an aggregated eBook platform. The new interface is intuitive yet powerful and we fully expect MyiLibrary to become an indispensable library resource."

MyiLibrary now provides full COUNTER-compliant usage statistics to further service the ever-changing needs of the library market. This development means that MyiLibrary is currently the only eBook provider to offer libraries precise usage information in what is now acknowledged as the industry standard format.

This new functionality follows a major increase in the number of specialist medical eBooks available within the database. ProQuest MyiLibrary now offers more than 6,000 of these titles-more than doubling the number available upon initial release. In addition to new content, the search facility within the platform has been redeveloped to reduce the time it takes the researcher to perform comprehensive searches. This has been achieved via technical and visual developments, such as reducing the amount of clicks required to perform a search. Usability is increasingly significant to eBook and eContent delivery; MyiLibrary has developed tools enabling the user to create a personal account to save search results and bookmark texts.

To go along with these functionality and content enhancements, MyiLibrary content is now searchable on the ProQuest platform.  ProQuest users can link directly to the full-text titles from within the interface and cross-search book and journal titles using Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms. ProQuest users can now search titles from the world's leading academic publishers, including the full eBook collections from Springer, CRC Press, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, and titles from both Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press.

"ProQuest MyiLibrary Medical has responded to the changing demands of users across the world," said David "Skip" Prichard, president of ProQuest Information and Learning, "and this combination of new search functionality and content upgrades has firmly positioned it as the industry leader in specialist medical eBook content. MyiLibrary is fast becoming an indispensable reference tool for the millions of academics and professionals worldwide who demand a multipublisher aggregated eBook solution."

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