New Databases

We're constantly working to expand our collections to meet your research and teaching needs. Here are the databases and other online collections acquired over the past 18 months. Please also check out the databases we are considering for purchase.

June 2025

ProQuest databases

Rutgers University Libraries has begun a new ProQuest subscription that gives us access to all subscription primary source and research database content available from ProQuest. All of the ProQuest content we have accessed in the past is still available, but it is organized in a new way and interspersed with an abundance of new content, including scholarly journals, archival primary sources, historical newspapers, and more. The databases are nested in a parent-child hierarchy, with each parent containing all the content in its child collections. This is a list of all the new databases we have acquired from ProQuest. 

ProQuest One Academic Suite

ProQuest One Academic: a giant platform that allows you to search and browse across 4 major ProQuest/Alexander Street collections, including 3 Rutgers has been able to access for years (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, Academic Video Online (AVON), and ProQuest Academic Complete--a subset of over 200,000 ebooks from ProQuest Ebook Central) plus the new-to-Rutgers database ProQuest Central Premium

ProQuest Central Premium

ProQuest Central Premium: Interdisciplinary academic database with thousands of scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and more in the subject areas of business, health and medical, social sciences, arts, humanities, religion, education, science, and technology. It contains a nested hierarchy of academic databases. Rutgers' new databases in ProQuest Central Premium include:

  • ProQuest One Applied & Life Sciences: Journals and research publications in computer sciences, biology, engineering, materials science, and technology.
    • Advanced Technologies & Computer Science Collection: Scholarship on a wide range of topics in aerospace, computer science, energy science, information science, and more technological areas.
    • Biological Science Collection: Scholarship on a wide range of topics in biological sciences, including biomedicine, biotechnology, ecology, zoology, and aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.
    • Engineering Collection: Scholarship in a wide range of engineering disciplines and topics related to engineering and construction.
    • Materials Science Collection: Scholarship on a wide range of topics in materials science, including engineering, nanoscience, construction, ceramics, metals, polymers, composites, biomaterials, and more.
  • ProQuest One Business: Scholarly and trade journals; company, industry, and country reports; case studies; news sources; videos; and more.
  • ProQuest One Education: Journals, reports, ebooks, videos, ERIC indexing, and more covering all aspects of education.
  • ProQuest One Health & Nursing: Healthcare research and clinical practice materials, including journals, grey literature, videos, and more.
  • ProQuest One Psychology: Resources for psychological research and clinical practice techniques, including journals, counseling videos and transcripts, and more.
  • ProQuest One Religion & Philosophy: Scholarly journals in the areas of religion and philosophy, as well as popular magazines, primary source documents, and videos covering world religions.
  • ProQuest One Social Sciences: Extensive scholarship & research materials in all social sciences disciplines, including anthropology, criminology, international relations, library science, linguistics, political science, social work, and sociology.
  • ProQuest One Sustainability: Journals, case reports, ebooks, and more in the agricultural sciences; earth, atmospheric, & aquatic sciences; and environmental sciences.
  • Global Newsstream Collection: Global news sources from 1980 - present, updated daily.

ProQuest Digital Collections

ProQuest Digital Collections: multi-disciplinary platform with digitized primary and secondary sources from a wide variety of subject areas that are organized into many topical subcollections. RUL's new databases in ProQuest Digital Collections include:

ProQuest Historical Newspapers

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Global: Over 200 digitized historical newspapers from the United States, Canada, and around the world, though the primary focus of the collection is U.S. newspapers. Major sources in this database include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun, Newsweek, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and Ottawa Citizen. This databases also includes some significant subcollections, which may be searched separately as they offer unique content scopes reflecting the experiences of American communities: 

Other databases

vLex
Legal research database with U.S. federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legislation, and more. 

April 2025

ProQuest Regulatory Insight
Regulatory histories showing how U.S. Public Laws and Executive Orders are implemented by the Executive Branch of the U.S. Federal Government. 

March 2025

Europa World of Learning
Directory of over 40,000 global institutions of higher education and learning.

Mergent Market Atlas
Information about 50,000 global, active public companies, as well as industry, country, sustainability, and macroeconomic data. 

Policy Citation Index
Index of published policy reports from government organizations, think tanks, and other non-government organizations.

February 2025

The Bible in English
English Bible translations primarily dating from the Medieval and Renaissance periods.

MarketScope Advisor
Investment analysis database produced by CFRA, an independent global financial intelligence service. 

January 2025

Covidence
A tool for creating and collaborating on systematic reviews.

Short Story Index (H.W. Wilson)
An index of over 150,000 short stories published from the 1980s to the present. 

Weiss Ratings: Mutual Funds
Mutual funds ratings produced by the independent financial ratings agency Weiss Ratings.

December 2024

American Committee on Africa
Digitized primary sources documenting the work of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) from 1953 through 1981.

Trade in Early Modern London
Digitized court records and financial accounts from London livery companies from c. 1450 - 1750.

November 2024

GIDEON (Global Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology Online Network)
Infectious disease, epidemiology, and microbiology information.

PubsHub
A tool for choosing a medical journal or congress in which to publish or present.

October 2024

The Olympic Movement: Sport, Global Politics and Identity
Digitized primary sources covering the history of the modern Olympic and Paralympic games from 1896 - 1992.

September 2024

Mexico in History: Colonialism to Revolution 
Digitized primary sources covering Mexican history from c.1500 - 1929.

O'Reilly
Technology and business books, audiobooks, videos, and more from over 200 publishers.

August 2024

History Commons
Digitized historical and cultural materials from the United States, including African American newspapers, New Jersey county histories, American women's publications, and early newspapers such as the Pennsylvania Gazette.

July 2024

NCBI Datasets
Gene sequence data and metadata, including gene, genome, and taxonomy indexes.

June 2024

InCites
Benchmarking & analytics tool that combines data from Clarivate's Web of Science, Essential Science Indicators, Journal Citation Reports and Institutional Profiles.

Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement 
Digitized primary sources covering refugee crises, forced migrations, relief efforts, and resettlement after World War II. 

Sage Business
Business cases, theories, and applications.

Sage Campus
Self-paced courses covering the research and publication processes.

Sage Skills
Business skills and student success learning modules.

Sage Video
Streaming videos for business, social sciences, nursing, psychology, and other disciplines.

StatPearls 
Question banks for Nurse Practitioner and NCLEX-RN/PN exams. 

Adam Matthew Primary Source Databases

AM Research Skills 
Videos, essays, case studies, and practice sources introducing the key methods and approaches that scholars take when working with historical materials.

1980s Culture and Society
Digitized primary sources illustrating 1980s social, cultural, and political concerns.

Africa and the New Imperialism: European Borders on the African Continent, 1870-1914
Digitized primary sources documenting European colonization across Africa.

Amnesty International Archives: A Global Movement for Human Rights
Digitized records of Amnesty International from 1961-1991.

Area Studies: China and Southeast Asia
Primary sources documenting, from a Western perspective, the political, social, and cultural history of China from the 18th through 20th centuries.

Area Studies: India
Digitized primary sources documenting, primarily from a British colonial perspective, the political, social, and cultural history of India from 1712 to 1942.

British Newsreels, 1911-1930: Culture and Society on Film
Digitized silent newsreels covering British and international news.

Business, Economic and Labour History
Digitized primary sources from Britain and America covering 19th and 20th century topics, including Keynesian economic policy in Britain and the papers of major economists.

Church Missionary Society Archive
Digitized records of the Church Missionary Society and related organizations.

Conflict in Indochina: Foreign Office Files for Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, 1959-1979 
Digitized files of the British Foreign Office (later the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) regarding Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos.

Empire Studies 
Digitized primary sources documenting the British Empire and colonialism.

Hindi Cinema: Histories of Film-making 
Video interviews, on-set footage, photographs, and film posters documenting the history of Bollywood cinema.

Literary Studies 
Digitized literary manuscripts, rare printed works, and personal papers of leading British and American literary figures of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Medieval and Early Modern Studies 
Digitized manuscripts dating from the 12th to early 18th centuries.

Royal Shakespeare Company Archives: From Playwrights to Performance 
Digitized archives of the Royal Shakespeare Company, including prompt books and selected production materials.

The Transformation of Shopping 
Digitized primary source materials illustrating the sociocultural history of department stores.

Women's Studies 
Digitized primary sources that amplify the voices of women (primarily British) in the 18th-20th centuries.

Women's Voices and Life Writing, 1600-1968 
Digitized diaries and oral histories that reveal the lives and experiences of lesser-known women of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

World War Two Studies 
Digitized primary sources documenting WWII and its aftermath in Europe and the Pacific.

May 2024

South Asia Commons
Platform for discovering South Asian historical and cultural materials held by organizations around the world.

March 2024

Grants Index (Web of Science)
Browse previously awarded grants from public and private funding agencies around the world.

February 2024

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index (Web of Science)
Search ProQuest Dissertations & Theses on the Web of Science platform, complete with citation indexing. 

January 2024

HeritageQuest
Genealogical database with government records, census data, and auxiliary resources for family history research.

ProQuest Legislative Insight
Documents created by the U.S Congress in the course of Congressional lawmaking.