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Databases ~ ProQuest

ProQuest Central Essentials
ProQuest Central Essentials provides comprehensive, full-text, periodical coverage from 12 complete ProQuest databases, including Research Library and US Newsstream.
These curated databases are focused on science, technology, business, health, religion, arts, literature, humanities, social sciences, and education. The top national and regional US newspapers and newswires are available alongside academic and professional journals, consumer magazines, blogs, and reports. Each of the 12 databases may be searched together or separately.
ProQuest Research Library
A diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and other timely sources across the most common subject areas.
ProQuest Arts & Humanities Database
Scholarly journals and trade & consumer magazines for interdisciplinary, contemporary study of applied arts and cultural studies. From ProQuest.
ProQuest Social Science Database
Social Science Database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.
ProQuest Business Databases
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ABI/INFORM Collection
The collection features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, and key business and economics periodicals such as The Economist and Sloan Management Review. It also contains company/country/industry-focused reports, and major news sources like the Wall Street Journal. Its international coverage gives researchers a complete picture of companies and business trends around the world.
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