CORRELATION TECHNOLOGY UPDATES DATABASE CONTENT AND STANDARDS.ProQuest ProQuest Company is a well-known Ann Arbor, Michigan-based company specializing in educational microfilm and electronic publishing. History Eugene Power founded the company as University Microfilms in 1938, preserving works from the British Museum on microfilm. Information and Learning, Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , Mich.,has launched dynamic standards-based searching in its K-12 databases. ProQuest Information and Learning, a unit of ProQuest Company, creates and publishes databases for libraries and educational institutions worldwide. Standards-based searching allows educators to locate resources in ProQuest's portfolio of K-12 products by content standard and benchmark. ProQuest's proprietary, patented correlation technology allows the knowledge database to update constantly as content and standards change. The feature will be available in eLibrary Elibraries are libraries that consist only of resources available in a digital format, which can be accessed locally - stored on a hard disk - or through computer networks - public or private. (R), eLibrary Curriculum Edition(R), and the SIRS(R) suite of databases. When complete, the new feature will cover all core curricula subjects and will include all states' standards for English Language English language, member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Germanic languages). Spoken by about 470 million people throughout the world, English is the official language of about 45 nations. Arts, Mathematics, Sciences, and Social Studies/Sciences-plus national standards for Technology and Health. Standards-based searching saves time for educators during the lesson-planning process. It provides students with targeted, on-task information and insures that library resources are aligned directly to learning benchmarks. The searches are dynamic so that the results are always current. "As the standards-based education movement grows, teachers want more than ever to find and use the right instructional resources to address national, state and local educational standards," said Al De Seta, president, K-12, ProQuest Information and Learning. "As a leading K-12 content provider, one of ProQuest's most important roles is to provide educators with the tools and resources to achieve that goal." Other providers offer standards-based searching only for limited content sets, with static alignment to standards. ProQuest is the first aggregated database provider to offer the service with dynamic searching across content and every current state and national learning standard. In total, eLibrary and SIRS will allow educators to search by standards across more than 50 million documents. The new feature provides schools with a vast pool of reliable, relevant content to augment aug·ment v. aug·ment·ed, aug·ment·ing, aug·ments v.tr. 1. To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity: existing curriculum materials. For the first time, educators can access standards-aligned full-text periodical periodical, a publication that is issued regularly. It is distinguished from the newspaper in format in that its pages are smaller and are usually bound, and it is published at weekly, monthly, quarterly, or other intervals, rather than daily. articles, reference works, primary sources, websites, maps, pictures, audio/video, transcripts, and more in a single search. Plus, unlike other databases, the web content is monitored and reviewed hourly by ProQuest editors to ensure it's it's 1. Contraction of it is. 2. Contraction of it has. See Usage Note at its. it's it is or it has it's be ~have safe and appropriate for the classroom. Standards searching launches directly from the main search page with customized displays and work-station access. Users will find topics, websites, and articles that match the curriculum standards for their state. With a few clicks, users find benchmarks and begin matching them to ProQuest resources. Results display all topics related to the benchmark. Topics lead to related websites, periodicals, reference works, and multimedia sources. Dynamic searches include updated content as new documents are added daily. 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. About ProQuest Information and Learning ProQuest Information and Learning is a world leader in collecting, organizing, and publishing information worldwide for researchers, faculty, and students in libraries and schools. Known widely for its strength in business and economics, general reference, humanities, social sciences, and STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) A microscope that can image down to the atomic level. An STM uses a piezoelectric tube with a tiny sharp tip at the end that is moved within nanometers of the object being sampled. content, the company develops premium databases comprising periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, out-of-print books, and other scholarly information from more than 8,500 publishers worldwide. Users access the information through the ProQuest(R) Web-based online information system, Chadwyck- Healey Healey is a surname originally from the Sligo area of the Republic of Ireland and the Gaelic word O hEalaighthe which derives from the word 'ealadhach' meaning indigenous. Other versions of this surname include Haly, Haley, Haily, Hely, Healy, O'Healey, O'Haly and many more. (TM) electronic and microform In micrographics, a medium that contains microminiaturized images such as microfiche and microfilm. See micrographics. resources, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) (R) microform and print reference products, eLibrary(R) and SIRS(R) educational resources, and XanEdu(R) online faculty and student resources. For more information about ProQuest Information and Learning, visit http://www.il.proquest.com. 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