Dear Friends:                     Guindy Campus Library, University of Madras and Madras Library Association cordially invite you to a Presentation Program by Ms. Julie Stevens Regional Sales Director West Asia Pacific, Proquest Information & Learning  (formerly UMI) on various products and information services offered by Proquest at School of Chemical Sciences Auditorium, Guindy Campus - University of Madras, Chennai on Friday, the 4th August 2006 at 10 a.m. Program will be inaugurated by Prof. M. Anandakrishnan, Chairman, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai Please join us for lunch after the presentation program R.S.V.P. R. Ravichandran Allied Publishers Chennai 600 002 (98402 54697) mailto:aplchn@vsnl.net aplchn@vsnl. net Ms. Julie Stevens will talk in brief about various products of Proquest Information & Learning including ·        Proquest Dissertation & Theses  and Dissertation Abstracts (Full Text database that provides access to all 2 million index and abstract records with full text access from 1997) ·        Literature Online (It provides access to over 174 journals, 3000 author biographies, 340000 works of poetry from 18th century to the present, over 6000 works of English and American Drama and 2250 works of Prose fiction) ·        Safari Tech Books Online (It is an ideal ready reference resource providing a level of authority, flexibility and currency unequalled by other online IT reference databases.  The subscriber can choose from 3000 titles from over 20 imprints) ·        Periodicals Index Online and Periodicals Archive Online (Instant access to more than 200 years of scholarship and over 15 million article citations from more than 4700 journals covering Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences) ·        ABI Inform and Factiva.com (ABI Inform is the Gold Standard for Business & Management Information and Factiva.com has authoritative coverage of the latest developments in the business world) ·        Proquest Health & Medical Collections (Online Research Resources for Health professionals, administrators and students) ·        Proquest Science Journals ·        Proquest Social Science Journals and so on ùùùùùùù