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ProQuest and Dow Jones Extend Alliance

ANN ARBOR, Mich., June 27 PRNewswire — ProQuest has extended its exclusive distribution agreement with Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group for an additional three years. Under the new agreement, ProQuest will continue to provide the latest news and business information from Dow Jones Factiva(R) to academic and public libraries worldwide.

Dow Jones Factiva provides centralized access to what many librarians feel are indispensable sources of information. Its online interface, Factiva.com, combines more than 17,000 sources of news from 159 countries and in 22 languages. This broad range of content provides both local insight and global perspective on business issues. Dow Jones Factiva complements such acclaimed ProQuest information products as ABI/INFORM(R) — a suite of business databases in use in the top business schools throughout the world.

"The partnership between ProQuest and Dow Jones combines ProQuest's deep understanding of libraries and their users with Dow Jones Factiva's premium news and information content and services to provide the best business news resource in the library market," said Simon Beale, senior vice president of global sales for ProQuest. "Dow Jones is a core partner for ProQuest and we are delighted to continue and grow our relationship. We're looking forward to another three years of collaboration on product enhancements and new product ideas that will best serve the needs of researchers in the library space."

"Our continued collaboration with ProQuest supports Dow Jones's dedication to powering users with the information they need to make better decisions faster," said Richard Hanks, chief operating officer, Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. "ProQuest has been a valued partner for Dow Jones for many years. Dow Jones shall continue to deliver a powerful business and research tool with robust and comprehensive content to the academic market."

Since 1997, ProQuest has partnered with Dow Jones, allowing the news provider to reach academic and public libraries. In 2005, the collaboration expanded to include global distribution of Factiva.com, for the academic market — including for-profit and distance-learning institutions — and public libraries. In 2006, the agreement expanded further to include distribution to corporate and government sectors in Latin America. Now, ProQuest and Dow Jones renew their commitment through 2011.

Free trials of Factiva.com are available. Libraries may receive more information by contacting their ProQuest account representative. For details visit http://www.proquest.com or http://www.proquest.co.uk. More information about the Dow Jones Factiva suite of offerings is available at http://www.solutions.dowjones.com

About Dow Jones

Dow Jones & Company (http://www.dowjones.com) is a News Corporation company (NYSE: NWS, NWS.A; ASX: NWS, NWSLV; http://www.newscorp.com). Dow Jones is a leading provider of global business news and information services. Its Consumer Media Group publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Its Enterprise Media Group includes Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Factiva, Dow Jones Client Solutions, Dow Jones Indexes and Dow Jones Financial Information Services. Its Local Media Group operates community-based information franchises. Dow Jones owns 50% of SmartMoney and 33% of STOXX Ltd. and provides news content to radio stations in the U.S.

About ProQuest

ProQuest provides seamless access to and navigation of more than 125 billion digital pages of the world's scholarship, delivering it to the desktop and into the workflow of serious researchers in multiple fields, from arts, literature, and social science to science, technology, and medicine. ProQuest is part of Cambridge Information Group (http://www.cambridgeinformationgroup.com).

ProQuest's vast content pools are available to researchers through libraries of all types and include the world's largest digital newspaper archive, periodical databases comprising the output of more than 9,000 titles and spanning more than 500 years, the pre-eminent dissertation collection, and various other scholarly collections. Users access the information through the ProQuest(R) and CSA Illumina(TM) online information systems, Chadwyck-Healey(TM) electronic and microform resources, UMI(R) microform and print reference products, eLibrary(R) and SIRS(R) educational resources, Ulrich's(R) Serials Analysis System, COS Scholar Universe, and Serials Solutions(R) resource management tools. Through the expertise of business units Serials Solutions and RefWorks/COS, ProQuest provides technological tools that allow researchers and libraries to better manage and use their information resources. For more information, visit http://www.proquest.com, http://www.proquest.co.uk, and http://www.csa.com

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