ProQuest Expands Support for Research in Arts and Humanities

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Continuing its mission of making hard-to-find journals accessible to the world's researchers, ProQuest has released the 10^th collection in its widely-used Periodicals Archive Online. A landmark electronic trove of more than 700 digitized, fully searchable journal archives, Periodicals Archive Online accelerates the productivity of researchers with powerful and easy searching of two centuries' worth of international scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences.

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"Periodicals Archive Online is the kind of resource that allows researchers to work strategically," said Mary Sauer-Games, ProQuest Vice-President, Publishing. "It gathers the resources that have been typically hard to find and access and makes them easy to search in a very targeted way."  

With more than 15 million pages and 3 million articles, Periodicals Archive Online is a growing virtual library comprising core academic journals as well as rare specialized titles. Periodicals Archive Online's 10^th collection includes international titles such as Queen's Quarlerly,Cahiers d'histoire mondiale, L'Homme et la societe and Libri, along with regional works, including Tennessee Historical Quarterly and Kentucky Folklore Record. Journals are digitized cover to cover, from volume 1, issue 1 and some 20 percent are in non-English languages, providing the broad international coverage that researchers require to publish on the global stage. Its fast search engine enables powerful and intuitive searching across this vast body of content.

To learn more, visit www.proquest.com.

About ProQuest (www.proquest.com)

ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information.  Key to serious research, the company has forged a 70-year reputation as a gateway to the world's knowledge – from dissertations to governmental and cultural archives to news, in all its forms.  Its role is essential to libraries and other organizations whose missions depend on the management and delivery of complete, trustworthy information.

ProQuest's massive information pool is made accessible in research environments that accelerate productivity, empowering users to discover, create, and share knowledge.

An energetic, fast-growing organization, ProQuest includes the ProQuest®, Bowker®, Dialog®, ebrary®, and Serials Solutions® businesses and notable research tools such as the RefWorks® and Pivot™ services, as well as its' Summon® web-scale discovery service.  The company is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with offices around the world.

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