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STN International: Home. Home. Home. ProQuest. ProQuest headquarters. History[edit] 2008 conference booth Eugene Power, a 1930 M.B.A. graduate of the University of Michigan, founded the company as University Microfilms in 1938, preserving works from the British Museum on microfilm. In his autobiography Edition of One, Power details the development of the company, including how University Microfilms assisted the OSS during World War II.[2] This work mainly involved filming maps and European newspapers so they could be shipped back and forth overseas more cheaply and discreetly.

Power also noticed a niche market in dissertations publishing. Students were often forced to publish their own works in order to finish their doctoral degree. Dissertations could be published more cheaply as microfilm than as books. As the dissertations market grew, the company expanded into filming newspapers and periodicals.

Xerox owned the company for a time in the 1970s and 1980s, and it was later bought by Bell & Howell. Archived newspapers[edit] ProQuest.com. Wolters Kluwer | Home.