ANN ARBOR – ProQuest has closed on its
agreement to acquire the Dialog business from ThomsonReuters and named
industry veteran Suzanne BeDell as Dialog General Manager. BeDell will
report to ProQuest CEO Marty Kahn. Financial terms were not disclosed.
“I am thrilled about what this means both to ProQuest and Dialog and to
the customers we serve. Both companies have complementary products and
content that are essential to libraries and serious researchers,” said
Kahn. “I’m fully confident that under Suzanne’s leadership, Dialog will be
rededicated to these core markets, serving them with groundbreaking tools
and technology.”
BeDell is a 20-year veteran of the publishing industry, with roles
in publishing, sales, and product development at Thomson, Mosby, Inc., and
McGraw- Hill. She joined ProQuest in 2001 as Vice President and Publisher
and played instrumental roles in the development of such
critically-acclaimed products as Black Studies Center and ProQuest Central,
the world’s largest aggregated full-text database. As Senior Vice
President, she has managed ProQuest’s Higher Education Publishing area
since 2006.
“I’ve been a big fan of Dialog for a long time. It has a great future.
I’m personally very excited about the opportunity to work with its team of
professionals,” said Ms. BeDell. “Together, we’ll renew Dialog’s focus on
the information intermediary, the importance of professional search and
dedication to providing the broadest possible content sets against which to
search.”
Ms. BeDell will maintain offices in Ann Arbor and Cary, North Carolina.
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.
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