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ProQuest Newsstand: ProQuest Newsstand™ lets librarians create an online newspaper resource that meets the needs of their library's patrons. Customers can choose to receive a selection of major national newspapers, or create customized state and regional packages.
The core of the database includes international, national and regional papers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, The Guardian, El Norte, Jerusalem Post, and South China Morning Post.
For each article cited in the database, an abstract helps the researcher know if the complete text will meet his or her needs. Abstracting and indexing are available for the more than 750 newspapers in ProQuest Newsstand; of these, almost 700 are full text.
The ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Trace the Revolutionary War rebel cause, Reconstruction after the Civil War, American industrialization into the 20th Century, both World Wars, the Civil Rights Movement, and the development of a globalized economy in one source…
ProQuest Historical Newspapers™-the definitive digital archive-offers full-text and full-image arhticles for significant newspapers dating back to the 18th Century. As part of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers™ program, every issue of each title includes the complete paper-cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format.
See a complete list of available historical newspapers by clicking here.
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.
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 315 publications, the local, national, and international coverage is from 1990 to the present.
GenderWatch is a full text database of over 240 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.
ProQuest Science and Technology Collections: ProQuest has once again redefined information solutions for science and technology research.
Our renowned CSA discipline-oriented databases have recently evolved to feature Deep Indexing enhancements – and now comes the next phase in the evolution to the provision of complete science and technology research solutions – full text resources.
Deep Indexing is the creation of relevant terms to describe the information contained within a table, chart, figure, or graph, allowing the researcher to vastly improve their search efficiency through more precise, focused discovery of relevant articles and publications.
And now, with access to many full text publications comes the ability to retrieve the full text of many of the citation records with a simple mouse click!
Our new collections now provide researchers the most comprehensive information solutions in the market today!
To see a full list of available collections and title lists, click here.
ProQuest Education Journals gives users access to over 785 top educational publications, including nearly 615 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 and Medical Complete includes indexing and abstracts for over 1,530 titles, with over 1,270 available in full text and/or image formats. The database includes more than 910 essential medical journals substantially indexed in MEDLINE, covering key medical specialties such as pediatrics, neurology, cardiovascular diseases, obstetrics and gynecology, and surgery.
ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source: ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health SourceTM provides users with reliable healthcare information covering nursing, allied health, alternative and complementary medicine, and much more. This versatile database is designed to meet the needs of researchers at healthcare facilities as well as nursing and allied health programs at academic institutions. ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source provides abstracting and indexing for more than 850 titles, with over 715 titles in full-text, plus more than 12,000 full text dissertations representing the most rigorous scholarship in nursing and related fields.
Evidence-based nursing content from The Joanna Briggs Institute Researchers gain exclusive access to highly valuable evidence-based nursing information from The Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI). These resources include Systematic Reviews, Evidence Summaries, and Best Practice Information Sheets. The JBI's evidence-based approach opens a new world of education resources, with critical appraisal and meta-analysis that is highly respected and unquestioned in the field.
Exclusive Video Training from Medcom, Inc. Training videos are valuable for nursing programs looking to enhance student learning, and ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source truly delivers with powerful videos from Medcom, Inc. These videos cover important topics such as health care safety, emergency planning, checking vital signs and many more. Videos are available in flash format, and are broken down into chaptered clips for easy study. Videos are well indexed for reliable search results and can be viewed in document view or downloaded to your desktop for reference.
Multicultural reports from CultureVision
Cultural awareness is crucial to providing quality health care, and our newly added content from CultureVision provides an outstanding set of cultural reports that lead to a better understanding of patient care. Covering over 30 ethnicities and 11 religions, CultureVision reports deliver invaluable resources for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with respect to their beliefs and practices.
A great complement to CINAHL!!!
ProQuest Psychology Journals includes nearly 650 psychology and psychosomatic publications, with nearly 540 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. A fabulous complement to any PsycINFO or PsycARTICLES subscription.
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 357,250 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 240 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.
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.
The online edition includes:
- 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:
- 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
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 2,000 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.
Contact Information
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Academic – 4 year colleges and universities
Sharon Daniels
734-839-6639
sharon.daniels@proquest.com
Community College and Special Libraries
Skip DeWall
800-521-0600 ext. 4089
robert.dewall@proquest.com
School (K-12) Libraries and Public Libraries
Cynthia Lett
773-427-7074
cynthia.lett@proquest.com