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Scientific research drives innovation for your industry and your organization, but do you havethe complete perspective?
U.S. academic institutions perform 53% of the nation’s total basic research, per the National Science Board’s Science and Engineering Indicators 2012. Similar trends exist worldwide. This crucial body of research is uniquely discoverable in dissertations and theses.
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There is a significant body of dissertation publishing in the area of fuel cells, particularly for use in the automotive industry. Dissertations in this multidisciplinary domain tend to focus primarily on material science, chemical engineering, or manufacturing and process optimization.
Dissertation publishing is active in alternative and renewable energy, including enhanced oil recovery, oil sands, oil field remediation, and seismic studies of the ocean floor. In the area of food science, phenolic compounds and antioxidants are hot topics, with blueberries widely studied in pursuit of the next super food. Shelf life improvement, storage, and packaging innovations are other active areas.
RESEARCH TRENDS IN BIOLOGICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
A growing number of recent dissertations are focused on finding clues within nature that could support future pharmaceutical development. Common species under the microscope are marine sponges and cyanobacteria, with cancer drug development often the ultimate goal of the research. Another hot area for new dissertations is the development of cancer treatments, particularly breast and prostate cancer, and the continued pursuit of effective vaccines to prevent the disease.
Application of Information Communications Technology (ICT) to healthcare has the potential to provide a multitude of benefits to patients and service providers around the world, and this is reflected in the increasing number of dissertations recently published in this domain. Within health informatics, the subject of electronic health records is widely studied and represents another growing trend.
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY MICROBIOLOGY GENETICS PUBLIC HEALTH CELLULAR BIOLOGY ECOLOGY NEUROSCIENCES NURSING BIOLOGY ZOOLOGY PHARMACOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY MEDICINE PLANT BIOLOGY BIOPHYSICS NUTRITION ONCOLOGY ENTOMOLOGY
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT OTHER ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS ORGANIC CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MATERIALS SCIENCE CIVIL ENGINEERING PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY ENGINEERING
CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY INORGANIC CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY STATISTICS INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AEROSPACE ENGINEERING PHYSICS OPTICS OTHER
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Dissertations and theses can provide the missing link, often acting as the first published source for new concepts and areas of research. And, dissertations are cross-disciplinary in scope, encompassing almost all areas of science and technology.
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Whether your focus is on discovering scientific research at the earliest stage or identifying prior art early in the patenting process, ProQuest Dialog offers powerful capabilities to facilitate your research.
• Powerful and versatile precision search of the full text documents enables full discovery to unlock the full value of this unique body of scientific research
• Complete text of dissertation documents from more than 1,700 graduate schools and universities, including the world’s most prestigious research programs
• Rigorous quality control, indexing and editorial oversight to ensure authoritative content and results
• Comprehensive cited reference links to quickly find all dissertations that have cited a dissertation of interest
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o View abstracts or full text for items found in other ProQuest Dialog databases or link directly to your organization’s full text holdings
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Scientific research drives innovation for your industry and your organization, but do you havethe complete perspective?
U.S. academic institutions perform 53% of the nation’s total basic research, per the National Science Board’s Science and Engineering Indicators 2012. Similar trends exist worldwide. This crucial body of research is uniquely discoverable in dissertations and theses.
Now, with ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Professional on ProQuest Dialog™, the world’s
most comprehensive collection of dissertations is available for the first time in a search service uniquely designed for the needs of business and professional research. Using precision search of the full text, you can discover early stage research and prior art as never before.
FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE BEEN MISSING!
PROQUEST.COM
NEW ON PROQUEST DIALOG
™789 E. Eisenhower Parkway • P.O. Box 1346 • Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 • USA • 800-521-0600 • www.proquest.com
D-2618/CH-BL/2-14
PROQUEST.COM
PROQUEST—THE AUTHORITATIVE SOURCE FOR DISSERTATIONS
ProQuest offers more than three million citations to dissertations and theses from around the world, plus the full text for more than one and a half million dissertations. Nearly 90,000 new full text graduate works are added to the database each year. ProQuest is the leader in the field, with a history of preserving and enabling accessibility for dissertations that stretches back more than 70 years. In fact, ProQuest is designated as an official offsite repository by the U.S. Library of Congress.
Only a fraction of the dissertations available on ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Professional are available on the open web or via academic institutions. ProQuest offers full text searchable access to the most comprehensive collection of dissertations available.
FLEXIBLE CONTRACT AND PRICING OPTIONS
ProQuest Dialog makes it easy to establish a contract that meets the specific requirements of your organization, and to change as your needs change.
• Choose a flat rate subscription to cover all use within your department or enterprise, or choose pay as you go pricing if you want to purchase a few documents at a time. Discounts are available for making an annual commitment.
• Combine access to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Professional with any of the broad collections of scientific, engineering, news, trade and patents literature on ProQuest Dialog.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
customer@dialog.com or visit http://www.proquest.com/
to arrange your free trial today.
PROQUEST DISSERTATIONS AND THESES PROFESSIONAL
RESEARCH TRENDS IN ENGINEERING AND SCITECH
There is a significant body of dissertation publishing in the area of fuel cells, particularly for use in the automotive industry. Dissertations in this multidisciplinary domain tend to focus primarily on material science, chemical engineering, or manufacturing and process optimization.
Dissertation publishing is active in alternative and renewable energy, including enhanced oil recovery, oil sands, oil field remediation, and seismic studies of the ocean floor. In the area of food science, phenolic compounds and antioxidants are hot topics, with blueberries widely studied in pursuit of the next super food. Shelf life improvement, storage, and packaging innovations are other active areas.
RESEARCH TRENDS IN BIOLOGICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
A growing number of recent dissertations are focused on finding clues within nature that could support future pharmaceutical development. Common species under the microscope are marine sponges and cyanobacteria, with cancer drug development often the ultimate goal of the research. Another hot area for new dissertations is the development of cancer treatments, particularly breast and prostate cancer, and the continued pursuit of effective vaccines to prevent the disease.
Application of Information Communications Technology (ICT) to healthcare has the potential to provide a multitude of benefits to patients and service providers around the world, and this is reflected in the increasing number of dissertations recently published in this domain. Within health informatics, the subject of electronic health records is widely studied and represents another growing trend.
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY MICROBIOLOGY GENETICS PUBLIC HEALTH CELLULAR BIOLOGY ECOLOGY NEUROSCIENCES NURSING BIOLOGY ZOOLOGY PHARMACOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY MEDICINE PLANT BIOLOGY BIOPHYSICS NUTRITION ONCOLOGY ENTOMOLOGY
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT OTHER ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS ORGANIC CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MATERIALS SCIENCE CIVIL ENGINEERING PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY ENGINEERING
CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY INORGANIC CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY STATISTICS INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AEROSPACE ENGINEERING PHYSICS OPTICS OTHER
THE LEADING EDGE
Dissertations and theses can provide the missing link, often acting as the first published source for new concepts and areas of research. And, dissertations are cross-disciplinary in scope, encompassing almost all areas of science and technology.
POWERFUL RESEARCH TOOLS
Whether your focus is on discovering scientific research at the earliest stage or identifying prior art early in the patenting process, ProQuest Dialog offers powerful capabilities to facilitate your research.
• Powerful and versatile precision search of the full text documents enables full discovery to unlock the full value of this unique body of scientific research
• Complete text of dissertation documents from more than 1,700 graduate schools and universities, including the world’s most prestigious research programs
• Rigorous quality control, indexing and editorial oversight to ensure authoritative content and results
• Comprehensive cited reference links to quickly find all dissertations that have cited a dissertation of interest
o Extend discovery through cited references to ProQuest Dialog’s broad and deep collection of scientific literature
o View abstracts or full text for items found in other ProQuest Dialog databases or link directly to your organization’s full text holdings
o Find related dissertations, journals and conference proceedings by linking to all other records sharing at least one reference
LINK STRAIGHT TO NEWER DISSERTATIONS THAT HAVE CITED THIS DISSERTATION
DISSERTATION REFERENCE IS LINKED TO THE ABSTRACT FROM ANOTHER DATABASE FIND SIMILAR DISSERTATIONS, JOURNALS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE ON PROQUEST DIALOG BY LINKING TO ALL OTHER RECORDS SHARING ONE OR MORE REFERENCE 550,000 500,000 450,000 400,000 350,000 300,000 250,000 200,000 150,000 100,000 50,000 0
Number of subject categories applied*
COVERAGE OF THE BEHAVIOURAL, NATURAL, & PHYSICAL SCIENCES IN PROQUEST DISSERTATIONS AND THESES PROFESSIONAL
ENGINEERING BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES PHYSICALMATHS &
SCIENCES HEALTH &
MEDICAL SCIENCES
GEOSCIENCE AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
* editors assign an average of 3 subject categories to every dissertation record
in the database LINK DIRECTLY TO A LIST OF REFERENCES FROM
THE LEADING EDGE
Dissertations and theses can provide the missing link, often acting as the first published source for new concepts and areas of research. And, dissertations are cross-disciplinary in scope, encompassing almost all areas of science and technology.
POWERFUL RESEARCH TOOLS
Whether your focus is on discovering scientific research at the earliest stage or identifying prior art early in the patenting process, ProQuest Dialog offers powerful capabilities to facilitate your research.
• Powerful and versatile precision search of the full text documents enables full discovery to unlock the full value of this unique body of scientific research
• Complete text of dissertation documents from more than 1,700 graduate schools and universities, including the world’s most prestigious research programs
• Rigorous quality control, indexing and editorial oversight to ensure authoritative content and results
• Comprehensive cited reference links to quickly find all dissertations that have cited a dissertation of interest
o Extend discovery through cited references to ProQuest Dialog’s broad and deep collection of scientific literature
o View abstracts or full text for items found in other ProQuest Dialog databases or link directly to your organization’s full text holdings
o Find related dissertations, journals and conference proceedings by linking to all other records sharing at least one reference
PROQUEST DISSERTATIONS AND THESES PROFESSIONAL
LINK STRAIGHT TO NEWER DISSERTATIONS THAT HAVE CITED THIS DISSERTATION
DISSERTATION REFERENCE IS LINKED TO THE ABSTRACT FROM ANOTHER DATABASE FIND SIMILAR DISSERTATIONS, JOURNALS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AVAILABLE ON PROQUEST DIALOG BY LINKING TO ALL OTHER RECORDS SHARING ONE OR MORE REFERENCE 550,000 500,000 450,000 400,000 350,000 300,000 250,000 200,000 150,000 100,000 50,000 0
Number of subject categories applied*
COVERAGE OF THE BEHAVIOURAL, NATURAL, & PHYSICAL SCIENCES IN PROQUEST DISSERTATIONS AND THESES PROFESSIONAL
ENGINEERING BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES PHYSICALMATHS &
SCIENCES HEALTH &
MEDICAL SCIENCES
GEOSCIENCE AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
* editors assign an average of 3 subject categories to every dissertation record
in the database LINK DIRECTLY TO A LIST OF REFERENCES FROM
PROQUEST
DISSERTATIONS
AND THESES
PROFESSIONAL
START
HERE
Scientific research drives innovation for your industry and your organization, but do you havethe complete perspective?
U.S. academic institutions perform 53% of the nation’s total basic research, per the National Science Board’s Science and Engineering Indicators 2012. Similar trends exist worldwide. This crucial body of research is uniquely discoverable in dissertations and theses.
Now, with ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Professional on ProQuest Dialog™, the world’s
most comprehensive collection of dissertations is available for the first time in a search service uniquely designed for the needs of business and professional research. Using precision search of the full text, you can discover early stage research and prior art as never before.
FIND OUT WHAT YOU’VE BEEN MISSING!
PROQUEST.COM
NEW ON PROQUEST DIALOG
™789 E. Eisenhower Parkway • P.O. Box 1346 • Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346 • USA • 800-521-0600 • www.proquest.com
D-2618/CH-BL/2-14
PROQUEST.COM
PROQUEST—THE AUTHORITATIVE SOURCE FOR DISSERTATIONS
ProQuest offers more than three million citations to dissertations and theses from around the world, plus the full text for more than one and a half million dissertations. Nearly 90,000 new full text graduate works are added to the database each year. ProQuest is the leader in the field, with a history of preserving and enabling accessibility for dissertations that stretches back more than 70 years. In fact, ProQuest is designated as an official offsite repository by the U.S. Library of Congress.
Only a fraction of the dissertations available on ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Professional are available on the open web or via academic institutions. ProQuest offers full text searchable access to the most comprehensive collection of dissertations available.
FLEXIBLE CONTRACT AND PRICING OPTIONS
ProQuest Dialog makes it easy to establish a contract that meets the specific requirements of your organization, and to change as your needs change.
• Choose a flat rate subscription to cover all use within your department or enterprise, or choose pay as you go pricing if you want to purchase a few documents at a time. Discounts are available for making an annual commitment.
• Combine access to ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Professional with any of the broad collections of scientific, engineering, news, trade and patents literature on ProQuest Dialog.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
customer@dialog.com or visit http://www.proquest.com/
to arrange your free trial today.
RESEARCH TRENDS IN ENGINEERING AND SCITECH
There is a significant body of dissertation publishing in the area of fuel cells, particularly for use in the automotive industry. Dissertations in this multidisciplinary domain tend to focus primarily on material science, chemical engineering, or manufacturing and process optimization.
Dissertation publishing is active in alternative and renewable energy, including enhanced oil recovery, oil sands, oil field remediation, and seismic studies of the ocean floor. In the area of food science, phenolic compounds and antioxidants are hot topics, with blueberries widely studied in pursuit of the next super food. Shelf life improvement, storage, and packaging innovations are other active areas.
RESEARCH TRENDS IN BIOLOGICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
A growing number of recent dissertations are focused on finding clues within nature that could support future pharmaceutical development. Common species under the microscope are marine sponges and cyanobacteria, with cancer drug development often the ultimate goal of the research. Another hot area for new dissertations is the development of cancer treatments, particularly breast and prostate cancer, and the continued pursuit of effective vaccines to prevent the disease.
Application of Information Communications Technology (ICT) to healthcare has the potential to provide a multitude of benefits to patients and service providers around the world, and this is reflected in the increasing number of dissertations recently published in this domain. Within health informatics, the subject of electronic health records is widely studied and represents another growing trend.
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY MICROBIOLOGY GENETICS PUBLIC HEALTH CELLULAR BIOLOGY ECOLOGY NEUROSCIENCES NURSING BIOLOGY ZOOLOGY PHARMACOLOGY IMMUNOLOGY MEDICINE PLANT BIOLOGY BIOPHYSICS NUTRITION ONCOLOGY ENTOMOLOGY
HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT OTHER ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COMPUTER SCIENCE MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS ORGANIC CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL ENGINEERING MATERIALS SCIENCE CIVIL ENGINEERING PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY ENGINEERING
CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY INORGANIC CHEMISTRY CHEMISTRY STATISTICS INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AEROSPACE ENGINEERING PHYSICS OPTICS OTHER
