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ProQuest Newsstand: National Newspapers is the single source for coverage of the nation’s leading newspapers. National Newspapers provides comprehensive, quality controlled indexing to articles from leading national newspapers. In addition to complete bibliographic information, every record includes either an abstract or annotated headline, to make it easier for researchers to identify relevant records. National Newspapers 27 includes theChristian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, USA TODAY, San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Houston Chronicle, and Times-Picayune from New Orleans.
The ProQuest Historical Newspapers Black Newspapers Collection provides a cultural perspective and insight to the events that shaped the United States in the twentieth century, including the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Vietnam War, and the Civil Rights Movement. Covering everything from major events to everyday life, the Collection invaluable research tools for studying American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and art.
The Collection includes four of the most historically important U.S. African-American newspapers.
- New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993). This leading 20th century African-American newspaper reached its peak in the 1940s. The Amsterdam News was a strong advocate for the desegregation of the U.S. military during World War II, and also covered the historically important Harlem Renaissance.
- Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002). One of the most nationally circulated African-American newspapers, the Courier reached its peak in the 1930s. A conservative voice in the African-American community, the Courier challenged the misrepresentation of African-Americans in the national media and advocated social reforms to advance the cause of civil rights.
- Los Angeles Sentinel (1946-1991). The oldest and largest African-American newspaper in the western U.S., and one of the largest African-American owned newspapers in the U.S.
- Atlanta Daily World (1931-1995). The Daily World had the first African-American White House correspondent, and was the first 20th century U.S. African-American daily.
These titles are fully cross-searchable with all other ProQuest Historical Newspapers, including the New York Times and Chicago Tribune—allowing researchers to evaluate what were viewed as “mainstream” and “minority” perspectives on the news. These titles can be also be made available within Black Studies Center, allowing cross-searching with other content sets focused on the African-American experience.
Each title features powerful and easy-to-use tools, including full page and article level image content, backfiles, multiple search options, detailed citations and abstracts, and easy printing and PDF downloading. The titles are available individually, or with special pricing in combination.
ProQuest Latin American Newsstand provides full text news in Spanish and Portuguese from over 40 titles from Puerto Rico and eleven Latin American countries (including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil). The database provides the best match for the needs of the Latin American Studies researcher, general researcher or serious researcher looking for a resource focused on Latin American news. The ProQuest interface makes it very easy to isolate, or to cross-search, relevant newspaper content. Each issue of every newspaper is indexed thoroughly, offering researchers access to both top news stories and all aspects of Latin opinion and culture.
Key newspaper titles include El Universal (Mexico City’s largest-selling newspaper), O Globo (Brazil), La Nación (Argentina), and El Mercurio (Chile). Titles important to business researchers include El Economista (Mexico), Valor Economico (Brazil), and Portafolio (Colombia).
ProQuest Biology Journals provides access to a wide range of biology topics. The database includes over 285 titles, with more than 250 available in full text. With thousands of articles available online, ProQuest Biology Journals includes some of the most popular information resources for users in academic, government, and public research environments.
A wide range of biology-related topics (for example, biological chemistry, biophysics, botany, cytology and histology, environmental studies, microbiology, microscopy, and zoology) are covered; available titles include Systematic Biology, Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Plant Cell and Bioscience.
The Chadwyck-Healey Black Studies Center delivers the most trusted sources, integrated in a single cross-searchable gateway:
- Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience—cross-disciplinary essays by today’s leading scholars in Black Studies, plus rare primary sources, biographies, timelines, and other contextual materials
- The Chicago Defender, 1910-1975—the full-image backfiles for this leading African-American newspaper
- International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text—journals from Africa, the U.S., and the Caribbean
- Black Literature Index—over 70,000 bibliographic citations for fiction, poetry and literary reviews published in 110 black periodicals and newspapers between 1827-1940. For citations to content from the Chicago Defender for which full text is available in Black Studies Center, a link is included directly to the relevant article.
- ProQuest Dissertations for Black Studies Add-on Module —available as an optional extra for Black Studies Center. This module contains 1,000 doctoral dissertations and Masters' theses relating to Black Studies. Included are dissertations written between 1970 and 2004 at over 100 universities and colleges across the United States. Dissertations appear as page images with background searchable text, with hit highlighting for search terms, and can also be downloaded as PDFs. Those dissertations available to all users as Required Readings within SSBE are also cross-searchable within the Dissertations module.
- Much more to come!
Essays, newspapers, periodicals, references; historical and current; primary and secondary…Black Studies Center has it all. It’s an unparalleled research tool not only for Black Studies, but for a host of other disciplines that require more expanded coverage of the Black Experience.
Ethnic NewsWatch Complete provides interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), and comprehensive full text from the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Providing information and opinions on topics rarely covered in mainstream publications, it also mirrors articles from the majority press from different and unique viewpoints. With an unequaled collection of articles, editorials and reviews from a broad spectrum of perspectives, the database provides a valuable interdisciplinary resource. Updated daily with comprehensive full text coverage from over 280 publications, the local, national, and international coverage is from 1990 to the present
GenderWatch is a full text database of over 220 unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles and understandings over the last twenty to thirty years. The database supports programs in business, education, literature, the arts, health sciences, history, political science, public policy, sociology and contemporary culture, gender and women's studies and more. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and NGO, government and special reports.
The original Chadwyck-Healey Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps collection on microfilm has long been one of the few comprehensive sets of maps of the entire United States, and are the most frequently consulted maps in both public and academic libraries. The maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists, and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods. Sanborn Maps are large-scale plans containing information such as building outlines, detailed structural information (size, shape, construction materials, heights, and function), and locations of windows and doors. The maps also provide street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Some areas are represented by as many as eight different editions.
We've enhanced and digitized the same maps to create Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970 , which provides academic and public libraries online access to more than 660,000 large-scale maps of more than 12,000 American towns and cities. Users can easily manipulate maps, magnify and zoom in on specific sections, and compare maps from different years. To KYVL, we propose Digital Sanborn Maps Kentucky.
ProQuest Education Journals gives users access to over 750 top educational publications, including nearly 600 in full text. Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, the database offers complete text and images from journals such as Childhood Education, College Teaching, Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Athletic Training, Educational Theory.
ProQuest Education Journals covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.
ProQuest Health & Medical Complete includes indexing and abstracts for over 1200 titles, with over 950 available in full text and/or image formats. The database includes more than 770 essential medical journals substantially indexed in MEDLINE, covering key medical specialties such as pediatrics, neurology, cardiovascular diseases, obstetrics and gynecology, and surgery. Over 250 additional health titles are offered, with coverage of fitness, substance abuse, women's health issues, and more.
ProQuest Science Journals is a definitive resource for students studying both the applied and general sciences. Perfect for students in academic research environments, this impressive collection of scientific journals offers users a one-stop resource for their research needs.
With coverage dating back to 1986, ProQuest Science Journals features nearly 500 titles—with more than 380 available in full text. In full text format, researchers have access to all the charts, diagrams, graphs, tables, photos, and other graphical elements so vital to scientific and technical literature. These journals cover hundreds of topics relating to all major fields of study, including physics, engineering, astronomy, biology, earth science, and chemistry.
ProQuest Social Science Journals is a definitive resource for those who need access to a variety of scientific journals. The database includes over 500 titles, with nearly 300 available in full text. ProQuest Social Science Journals provides information on hundreds of topics, including addiction studies, urban studies, family studies, and international relations. Titles include Journal of Family Issues, American Demographics, The Public Interest, and Spectrum.
ProQuest Psychology Journals includes nearly 600 psychology and psychosomatic publications, with nearly 500 available in full text. All of its titles are of high academic quality; many are heavily cited, and have strong ISI impact factors. With coverage dating from 1992 forward, ProQuest Psychology Journals covers clinical and social psychology as well as related disciplines like genetics, psychology of business and economics, addiction, linguistics, neurology, criminology, social welfare and more.
The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews.
The Philosopher's Index monitors over 550 journals from more than 40 countries and is updated quarterly. Extensive indexing includes personal and proper names along with subject terms; there is also the capability to search for the authors of book reviews.
Literature Online (LION) is the world's leading academic full text and criticism online resource for literature written in English. With the third edition, the unique contents of this resource are even more readily available, and are provided with unique 21st century functionality. Literature Online provides both scholars and students with texts, criticism, and search tools that open up new possibilities for academic research, teaching and undergraduate learning. Integrating over 355,000 works of poetry, prose and drama from the 8th to the 21st century with a huge library of criticism and reference material, the collection represents an indispensable resource for the study of literature. No other literature resource offers this content and functionality.
Literature Online currently contains more than 200 full text literary journals with over 110,000 articles from top academic literature journals only (and seamlessly linked to the renowned ABELL literary index); over 6,500 essays of literary criticism from complete, full text literary reference and textbooks; commissioned biographies of over 4,100 contemporary and canonical authors from all over the world; and a wealth of bibliographic information to support study and research in literature. Additionally, only Literature Online has easy access to over 24,000 contemporary literary works published in current literary journals. Additional content includes Poets On Screen (over 800 video clips of contemporary poets reading their works and classic poems). Premium modules of 20th century prose and drama—African Writers Series and Twentieth Century Drama—can be added and cross-searched within this resource. MLA International Bibliography is also available as an add-on, and is seamlessly linked to the full text journals.
Literature Online with MLA and African Writers Series were named to CHOICE’s Outstanding Academic Title list in 2006.
ProQuest Learning: Literature delivers more than 180,000 full text works of poetry, prose, and drama from medieval times to the present. Students can also find secondary sources such as author biographies, literary criticisms, essays, reviews, study pages, multimedia, and interviews that place the original works in context. ProQuest Learning: Literature also features over 130 searchable full text literary journals and magazines for the latest in literary criticism. Titles include the New York Times Book Review, Black Issues Book Review, The Explicator, Hispanic Review, World Literature Today, and The Writer.
The engaging interface enhances students’ experience by connecting them visually with the authors they study. Quick Search allows students to search the entire collection at once; and Search Criticism enables students to search the literary magazines and journals for the latest critical works. Author Pages brings everything together onto one screen—biographical information, criticism, reviews, multimedia, reference information, and links to the full text literary work. And with more than 4,000 authors, including many contemporary and international writers like Sherman Alexie, Maya Angelou, Julio Cortazar, Raymond Carver, Sandra Cisneros, and V.S. Naipaul, nearly every genre, style, region, and era is covered.
Nearly 100 new editor-created Study Pages help students explore literary genres, periods, movements, and the works of Shakespeare in-depth. Each page provides an overview, list of important works and authors, as well as links to hand-selected images, works, criticism, transcripts, websites, and more. Students can explore genres such as the sonnet, humor and satire, and science fiction & fantasy; periods such as ancient China, the Renaissance, and Colonial America; and movements such as Transcendentalism, Harlem Renaissance, and the Beat Generation.
International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA) is the only online index covering the performing arts. It enables you to search and browse citations and abstracts in a comprehensive range of journals concentrating on a variety of subjects, including dance, film, drama, television, the arts and entertainment industry, stagecraft, magic, musical theatre and performance art. Abstracts are provided for every citation from 1998 forward to give further detail and offer additional access points to information. The coverage in IIPA is wide, ranging from as early as 1864 right up to the present.
To the indexing and abstract coverage of 242 performing arts journals, IIPA Full Text adds 84 full text titles. There is also full text for complete runs of important performing arts titles, such as Theatre Journal (1949-), Cinema Journal (1962-), Journal of Popular Film and Television (1972), and Film History (1987-), as well as current full text coverage for key titles.
IIPAFT is the only database that provides specialty indexing, abstracts and full text for performing arts journals only, offering targeted searching and results. The database is updated monthly with new content. Currently, IIPA contains over 388,000 records for articles published as early as 1864 to present. IIPA's backfile is impressive: over 152,000 records from 1864 to 1998, and all from specialty performing arts journals. No other resource has the breadth and depth as does IIPA. A growing collection of over 96,000 full text articles makes IIPA Full Text a valuable tool for instant access to an array of top academic and popular performing arts serials.
CultureGrams offers concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on the cultures of the world. It goes beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture, including the background, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people. Individual reports covering 202 countries, all 50 United States, plus the District of Columbia, and all 13 Canadian provinces and territories, are written and reviewed by in-country experts and are updated every year.
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All CultureGrams editions, including World (202 reports), Kid's (78 reports), States (51 reports), Provinces (13 reports)
- Concise reports focusing on 25 key categories including history, personal appearance, gestures, family, economy, and more
- Special Kid’s Edition content including images, historical timeline, fun facts, and sections on history, population, and “life as a kid”
- Exclusive online features such as a worldwide photo gallery (with 1,000s of new images and slideshows), a famous people collection, and a unique recipe collection that offers five homegrown recipes for every country in the database
- Multimedia content such as national anthems, official country names, currency converter, and current time
- State and province information including government details, symbols, and bird song audio files
- Printable detail and outline maps
- Sortable (create-your-own) data tables that help put dozens of facts into perspective, with option to download to CSV format
- 4,000+ term glossary, concepts, and terminology
- 50 teaching activities for use of CultureGrams in the classroom
SIRS Researcher, an issues-focused database, features relevant full text resources on thousands of current and enduring social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues. SIRS expertly delivers the arguments that underlie contemporary issues, from every angle, with carefully-selected articles and graphics from over 1,600 domestic and international publications.
Our unique non-divisive, unbiased approach delivers content on all sides of an issue—pro, con, and everything in between. With access to full text arguments and analysis, students can build essential critical thinking skills and develop well-rounded, thoughtful opinions on controversial issues in every field.
SIRS Researcher provides:
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One-click access to Leading Issues (the top 100 issues), Top 10 issues, That’s Debatable poll
- Concise overviews that put issues in context
- Pro/con analysis that defines the key arguments for each side
- Extensive Viewpoints articles that further explore the pros and cons
- Hundreds of related articles with summaries on all sides of the issues
- Keywords for further research
- MyAnalysis to help users understand, research, organize, and present an issue
- Educator tools that tie the issues to classroom assignments
- Targeted source search for locating images, maps, news, and pro/con sources
- Special features including World Almanac and Book of Facts excerpts, Focus on Terrorism, over 3,000 Maps of the World, and up-to-the-minute Today's News
SIRS Government Reporter combines a wide range of information published by and about the U.S. federal government. Documents date from 1990 to the present, and are 100% full text; many include graphics. The database provides information about federal agencies, elected leaders, and more.
Of special interest is U.S. Supreme Court coverage, which provides case documents dating back to the inception of the Court up through current decisions. Users can search cases by keyword (across full text, case name, or subject), and browse cases alphabetically, by Constitutional article and amendment, and by topic. Also included are “landmark cases,” which show the history of Court decisions that have significantly altered Constitutional doctrine.
SIRS Decades features more than 5,000 hand-selected primary and secondary source articles highlighting key events, movements, people, and places in 20th-century America. Organized around topics and decades, coverage includes original documents, letters, editorial cartoons, websites, photographs, maps, ads, speeches, and published articles—some available from the UMI microfilm vault for the first time in digital format. Our editorial staff carefully selects material based on its relevancy to the topic, range of viewpoints, authoritativeness, readability, and extent of coverage to ensure that users receive “best of” content.
Users can browse by decade, topic, or timeline, or use keyword, subject, and advanced search features to develop targeted queries. Each decade features an overview essay, spotlighted images, and list of related topics. Topics lead to primary and secondary sources and further background essays that place the sources into context. Every document includes a summary with a brief overview and description of the source. Additionally, document-based questions and “So What?” callouts for every topic help students better use, interpret, and synthesize primary sources and understand the modern implications of historical events.
eLibrary Curriculum Edition delivers one of the largest available collections of periodical and digital media content, making it an indispensable reference resource for schools, libraries, and classrooms. Users find the answers they need from more than 2,200 full text magazines, newspapers, reference books, and transcripts, plus thousands of maps, pictures, weblinks, and audio/video files. eLibrary Curriculum Edition includes two additional content resources to support the study of English Language Arts, Social Studies, and more.
ProQuest Learning: Literature offers a comprehensive, integrated literary resource for more than 150,000 full-text works of poetry, prose, and drama and thousands of author biographies, literary criticisms, essays, multimedia files, websites, interviews, reviews and more. Currently, over 4,000 authors are searchable in the database. Plus, nearly 100 Study Pages help students explore literary genres, periods, movements, and the works of Shakespeare in-depth. Each page provides an overview, list of important works and authors, as well as links to hand-selected images, works, criticism, transcripts, websites, and more.
History Study Center provides over 40,000 primary and secondary source documents and 100 periodical and reference titles that showcase 14 centuries of historical events-from ancient to modern, old world to new. Resources include newspaper and journal articles, rare books, video clips, diaries and letters, maps, statistics, reference books, websites and more. Plus, a collection of more than 500 Study Units provide in-depth historical context and resources on the most frequently studied topics in U.S. and world history.
ProQuest Learning: Literature and History Study Center can be searched together with eLibrary general reference content, or searched individually.
eLibrary Curriculum Edition supports general interest inquiry and study and research needs for all core and supplemental curricula subjects. The BookCart and QuizCart features offer powerful curriculum support with templates for building customized content and assessments (such as reading lists, project pages, and lesson plans) from eLibrary content. Using a simple point-and-click design, educators can quickly add links to relevant eLibrary publications, articles, multimedia files, and websites.
eLibrary Science delivers a comprehensive curriculum and reference resource designed to support the study of earth, life, physical, medical, and applied sciences. It goes beyond basic science reference and textbook information to offer thousands of full text and multimedia files that help students research and understand concepts in science; and that allow educators to build engaging materials, lessons, and activities for students.
Special content and search features include the following.
- Multimedia Resources provide thousands of authoritative multimedia files-pictures, websites, and streaming audio/video- for use in illustration, demonstration, or presentations.
- Comprehensive Science Content. Over 400 full text publications provide targeted, relevant information across the sciences, math, and technology. eLibrary Science also provides unique online e-book access to the Salem Press works (nearly 60 volumes), available for the first time in digital format. These works are delivered as online e-books that may be viewed and browsed by Table of Contents within the Reference tab.
- Interactive Content enhances text-only information and illustrates complex theories with manipulative and interactive tools that allow students to experience science concepts first-hand.
- Science Topics Browse or search by the over 5,000 topics indexed in the sciences, including earth sciences, health sciences, life sciences, mathematics, physical sciences, applied sciences, technology, and more.
- Science Past & Present. Science News highlights the latest news in the sciences; Famous Scientists offers links to the life and contributions made by important scientists; Today in Science features discoveries from the past.
- Science Learning Standards allow educators to easily locate resources aligned directly to a variety of learning benchmarks in the sciences.
- Science BookCart & QuizCart Learning Modules allow you to build and share customized content and quizzes that link students to online material that is reliable, relevant, and appropriate for daily classroom use, research, or activities.
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