CSA (formerly ''Cambridge Scientific Abstracts'') was a division of
Cambridge Information Group and provider of
online databases, based in
Bethesda, Maryland
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before merging with
ProQuest
ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene B. Power. ProQuest is known for its applications and information services for libraries, provid ...
of
Ann Arbor
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Anne is sometimes used as a male name in the ...
,
Michigan
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in 2007. CSA hosted databases of abstracts and developed taxonomic indexing of scholarly articles. These databases were hosted on the CSA Illumina platform and were available alongside add-on products like CSA Illustrata (deep-indexing of tables and figures). The company produced numerous
bibliographic database
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s in different fields of
the arts
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and
humanities
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,