New ProQuest platform goes live in Europe

Librarians at Université Lumière Lyon II celebrate their library's migration to the new ProQuest platform on the roof of their building, overlooking Lyon, France.

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France’s Université Lumière Lyon II has migrated to the all-new ProQuest platform, making it the first institution to enable students and faculty to search, discover, gather, and share content with ProQuest’s new technology. Users are able to access all the University’s ProQuest resources in a single, unified search—on campus or remotely. Université Lumière Lyon II was among the first wave of ProQuest customers around the world to preview the platform. Each is setting its own schedule for migration to enable a smooth transition.

“It was important for the university to be able to move over to the new ProQuest platform at the first opportunity,” Kareen Louembe, Université Lumière Lyon II E-Resources Coordinator. “We wanted our students and staff to be able to start seeing the benefits of the new cross-searchability of our ProQuest subscriptions. We feel this will lead to much more productive study and research activity at our institution.”

The new ProQuest platform was created from the ground up. Its experience-based design has been informed through studies of student research habits, surveys of more than 6,000 end users, focus groups, and individual interviews, plus ongoing interactions with users, librarians, administrators and faculty worldwide. “Personas”—a dozen highly detailed user profiles—were created from the research enabling the agile development process to be guided by users throughout. Ultimately, the platform became a blend of new technologies and user-favorites from other legacy ProQuest and brand family platforms.