Ann Arbor's ProQuest buys Maryland firm

Thursday, January 24, 2008 | Source: Great Lakes IT Report

Metromode reported late last year that Ann Arbor-based ProQuest - an information collecting, organzing and publishing company - was "moving on up," with a site expansion and plans for aggressive hiring in the works. This week, we learned that ProQuest is expanding in another way, with the purchase of Maryland-based RefWorks.

Excerpt:

ProQuest says it plans to integrate RefWorks with its Community of Science offering, a networking product for scholars called Scholar Universe, which connects them to 1.4 million other scholars, digests their research interests, and more.

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