Proquest
ProQuest is a comprehensive database offering access to a vast collection of scholarly articles, dissertations, newspapers, and other research materials. It serves as a crucial resource for students, researchers, and professionals across various fields, providing tools for effective information retrieval and analysis. The platform includes specialized databases such as ProQuest Central, which encompasses a wide range of academic disciplines, and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, which provides access to graduate research.
Users can search using keywords, advanced search options, and filters to hone in on specific topics or types of documents. ProQuest also offers features like citation tools, text-to-speech, and the ability to create personalized accounts for saving searches and documents. With its extensive archives, ProQuest plays a vital role in supporting academic research and enhancing learning experiences.
What ProQuest Databases Do You Have Access To?
All of these ProQuest databases can be accessed via DTL’s Databases A-Z page.
ProQuest Academic Complete
“Academic Complete provides authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with powerful tools to find, use, and manage the information.”
ProQuest Central
“ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.”
ProQuest Dissertations and Thesis Global
“ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Each year hundreds of thousands of works are added. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.”
ProQuest eBook Central
“Use eBook Central to quickly and easily find relevant eBooks and chapters; read online; search within the eBook; and highlight, take notes and bookmark pages in your online copy, stored on your bookshelf for you. You can also share your research with others, download eBooks and chapters to your laptop or mobile device, and more.”
ProQuest One Academic
“ProQuest One Academic combines all four of ProQuest’s multidisciplinary products on the ProQuest platform (ProQuest Central, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, Academic Complete, and Academic Video Online).”
ProQuest Publicly Available Content
“Designed to complement other databases and collections, this database brings together or links to full text for publicly available content from a number of different sources from around the world.”
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