ProQuest Central is a one-stop search point that includes over three dozen databases in one easy-to-use interface. However, you can also search the databases that make up ProQuest Central individually using the links below:
News
Business
Health Research
SciTech
Arts & Humanities
Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary
ProQuest Central is the largest, multidisciplinary, full-text database available in the market today. This resource provides access to almost 40 of ProQuest's complete databases, with a variety of content types across over 175 subjects, making this the broadest single research resource in the world. You can access ProQuest Central at any time using this link:
Unlike other resources, ProQuest Central is made up of separate, fully searchable databases which may be used together or separately. ProQuest Central won the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) 2010 CODiE Award for Best Online General Reference Service.
While ProQuest Central provides access to millions of much-coveted full text articles from thousands of scholarly journals, it also provides access to information not available in other aggregated resources such as:
The ProQuest Platform is optimized to provide deep subject access, as well as the best interdisciplinary cross-search for many levels of users. The ProQuest Platform won the 2015 Best Interface award in the Charleston Advisors Annual Readers' Choice Award.
Subject areas covered in ProQuest Central include:
Business
The inclusion of ABI/INFORM Collection gives access to thousands of journals specifically on business, economics, accounting, finance, management, taxation, law as well as a comprehensive collection of top market, industry, and country reports from Economist Intelligence Unit, BMI, ISI Emerging Markets, and more.
Science & Technology
ProQuest Central includes some of our key databases in the area, including Science Database, Biology Database, Computing Database, Telecommunications Database and Military Database, giving access to thousands of important full-text, impact factored journals, from Nature Publishing Group and Springer.
Health and Medical
With ProQuest Health and Medical Collection, ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Database, Family Health Database, Health Management Database, Public Health Database, and Psychology Database, users have access to a truly international resource, with content from 45 different countries. This comprehensive collection includes full-text journals, as well as scholarly resources such as dissertations, professional literature, and practical medical training videos.
Social Sciences
ProQuest Central features scholarly journals, and professional journals in all the fields within social and political sciences with complete resources such as Criminal Justice Database, Education Database, Library Science Database, Linguistics Database, Political Science Database, Social Science Database, and Sociology Database.
Arts and Humanities
Comprehensive coverage of the humanities, arts, and culture with over 1,000 titles in the main subject areas including literature, history, religion, philosophy, and fine and performing arts. Arts & Humanities Database, Religion Database, and full-text titles from Research Library provide journals, magazines, and professional publications.
News
ProQuest Central contains over 2,000 full-text news titles from hundreds of global news organizations, such as Wall Street Journal*, The Guardian, El Mundo, Financial Times, The Times of India, The New York Times, Die Welt, and Le Monde, Los Angeles Times, and Al Bawaba news publications. Content is added daily to ProQuest Central, with major newspapers loading by 8am on the day of the publication.
Interdisciplinary
ProQuest Central includes the multidisciplinary Research Library, Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database, and nine regional databases.
The regional databases provide current, full-text, scholarly journals locally published in these regions, helpful for area studies and focused research on scholarly output in the localities. These include:
Below are the types of publications and materials you can find in ProQuest Central:
