Collection Spotlight: ProQuest for All Disciplines
by Paul H. Bern, Ph.D., Research Data Services Librarian
The S.U. Libraries’ ProQuest database provides information for every discipline. Comprised of 61 distinct databases, ProQuest offers millions of documents covering research and subject areas such as:
- The Arts
- Business
- Health & Medicine
- History
- Literature & Language
- Science & Technology
- Social Sciences
ProQuest gives you access to 87,643 publications current and historical documents from sources like these:
- Newspapers
- Dissertations and theses (ProQuest is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress)
- Scholarly journals
- Television and radio broadcasts
- Wire service and press releases
- Company annual reports and snapshots
- Books
- Government documents and archives
- Maps
Given the vast amount of material available, saving your results and being notified of new additions would be helpful. “My Research” is a workspace where you can save, manage and organize the things you find or create in ProQuest — including documents, searches, alerts, RSS feeds and more. Creating a My Research account is free and only takes a minute or two to set up.
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ProQuest TDM
ProQuest TDM Studio allows research teams at Syracuse University the ability to mine large volumes of published content from the millions of pages of news, scholarly and other publications provided to the SU campus community through current subscriptions to contemporary and historical ProQuest databases. TDM Studio workbenches allow Syracuse University researchers the capacity within ProQuest’s text and data mining environment to apply programming languages like R or Python to execute queries, develop datasets and extract and analyze the text of publications central to their research. TDM Studio data visualization dashboard supports geographic analysis, topic modeling capability and sentiment analysis across a set of major U.S. and international newspaper titles.
Please see our guide on the ProQuest TDM platform for more information. To provide feedback or suggest a title to add to the collection, please complete the Resource Feedback Form.