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History
Businesses
Overview
Key facts & relationships
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- Founded
- 1938; 88 years ago (1938) as University Microfilms
- Industry
- Information and data provider
- Headquarters
- Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
- Founder
- Eugene Power
- Key people
- Andy Snyder (chairman) · Matti Shem-Tov (CEO) · Robert VanHees (CFO)
- Parent
- Cambridge Information Group (2006–2021) · Clarivate (2021–present)
Topics to explore
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Overview
Businesses
- Microfilm Microform
- United States Library of Congress
- Bowker R. R. Bowker
- ISBN International Standard Book Number
- Dialog Dialog (online database)
- Collection development Library collection development
- Patron-driven acquisition
- Ebrary
- Digital library
- Perpetual archive Perpetual access
History
- University of Michigan Ross School of Business
- British Museum
- Office of Strategic Services
- World War II
- Niche market
- Dissertations Dissertation
- Doctoral degree
- Dissertations and Theses ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Library of Congress
- Stanford University
- Periodicals Periodical
- Xerox
- Bell & Howell
- Bingham Barry Bingham Jr.
- CD-ROMs CD-ROM
- Databases Bibliographic database
- Digital Vault Initiative Digital Vault Initiative?action=edit&redlink=1
- Chadwyck-Healey Chadwyck-Healey?action=edit&redlink=1
- Cambridge
- Net income
- Serials Solutions
- Scio, Michigan
- Cambium Learning Group
- CSA CSA (database company)
- RefWorks
- Citation manager
- Community of Science
- Thomson Reuters
- LexisNexis
- E-books E-book
Advanced semantic analysis
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Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.ProQuest
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Top relations
Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
company acquired information microfilm dissertations publishing clarivate digital libraries library databases university billion power periodicals online acquisition also llc founded
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ProQuest | Founded | 1938; 88 years ago (1938) as University Microfilms | 1.00 | infobox |
| ProQuest | Founder | Eugene Power | 1.00 | infobox |
| ProQuest | Headquarters | Ann Arbor, Michigan, US | 1.00 | infobox |
| ProQuest | Industry | Information and data provider | 1.00 | infobox |
| ProQuest | Key people | Andy Snyder (chairman) | 1.00 | infobox |
| ProQuest | Key people | Matti Shem-Tov (CEO) | 1.00 | infobox |
| ProQuest | Key people | Robert VanHees (CFO) | 1.00 | infobox |
| ProQuest | Parent | Cambridge Information Group (2006–2021) | 1.00 | infobox |
| ProQuest | Parent | Clarivate (2021–present) | 1.00 | infobox |
| ProQuest | Type | Subsidiary | 1.00 | infobox |
| ProQuest | Website | www.proquest.com | 1.00 | infobox |
| patron-driven acquisition.ebrary was an online digital library that offered access to ebook collections | instance of | corporate and research libraries while supporting emerging collection development models | 0.80 | text |
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
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