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.
- Philosophy Research Collection: Scholarship in philosophy from the 1860s to the present.
- Religion Collection: Religious studies scholarship and magazines published by religious bodies.
- Religion Archive Collection: Historical primary and secondary religious sources.
- Religious Magazine Archive: Magazines produced by religious groups from the 19th - 21st centuries, providing a perspective of popular religious understandings and practice.
- Acta Sanctorum: 68-volume series on the lives of Roman Catholic saints.
- Luthers Werke: Complete collection of Martin Luther's writings.
- 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 One Black Studies: Primary source content for teaching and research in black history and culture, with a primary focus on the U.S.
- ProQuest One Women's Studies: Digitized primary and secondary sources in the areas of women's studies, gender and sexuality studies, LGBTQ+ studies, and men's and masculinity studies.
- ProQuest One Literature: Extensive global collection of primary source literary texts, criticism, analysis, and secondary sources.
- ProQuest One Entertainment & Popular Culture: Digitized primary and secondary sources in the areas of music, film, television, gaming, comics, and childhood and youth culture.
- Children's Magazine Archive: Digitized backfiles of magazines for children published from 1866 - 2020.
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive: Digitized trade and popular publications covering music, theatre, film, television, video games, and more dating from the 19th - 21st centuries.
- Health & Fitness Magazine Archive: Digitized archive of major U.S. and U.K. health and fitness magazines.
- Youth and Popular Culture Magazine Archive: Digitized backfiles of pre-teen and teen magazines from the U.K., U.S., and Canada.
- Screen Studies Collection: Film scholarship and filmographies for American and international films.
- ProQuest One Global Studies & International Relations: Digitized primary and secondary sources, including many declassified U.S. government documents, news sources, and academic journals, that illuminate global issues in historical and contemporary contexts.
- Digital National Security Archive: Digitized declassified U.S. government documents from post-World War II through the 21st century.
- Global & International Studies Collection: Mainstream and niche magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals covering global studies topics, regional history, and ethnic perspectives.
- ProQuest One History: Digitized primary sources, including archival materials, letters, diaries, videos, and more.
- Early Modern Collection: Digitized materials from the British Isles and Europe for the period 1450-1700 from the Early English Books Online and Early European Books collections.
- Early European Books: Digitized collection that aims to include all works printed in Europe before 1701 (regardless of language) and all pre-1701 works in European languages printed elsewhere.
- Historical Periodicals Collection: Indexing and digitized periodicals and magazines dating from the early 18th - early 20th centuries.
- History Vault: Digitized archival collections documenting 19th and 20th century American history.
- U.K. History Collection: British Periodicals collection, the Cecil Papers from the era of Queen Elizabeth I, Colonial State Papers, Queen Victoria's journals, trench magazines from WWI, and 19th-century ephemera.
- ProQuest Civil War Era: Digitized pamphlets and newspapers documenting the time leading up to and during the United States Civil War.
- Early Modern Collection: Digitized materials from the British Isles and Europe for the period 1450-1700 from the Early English Books Online and Early European Books collections.
- ProQuest One Visual Arts & Design: Scholarly, trade, and popular journals and videos in art, architecture, design, and fashion.
- Art, Design & Architecture Collection: Current scholarship and popular journals in the fields of visual and applied arts.
- Art, Design & Architecture Archive Collection: Digitized consumer and trade magazines in all areas of art, architecture, and design.
- Fashion Studies Collection: Digitized archive of major fashion magazines, including GQ, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and Women's Wear Daily.
- Music & Performing Arts Collection (ProQuest): Journals in music, dance, theatre, film, and a wide range of performing arts disciplines.
- American Drama 1714–1915: More than 1500 plays from the American stage.
- English Drama: More than 3000 plays in verse and prose from British theatrical history, dating from the late 13th century to the early 20th.
- Twentieth-Century Drama: More than 300 English-language plays from around the English-speaking world.
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:
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspaper Collection: Digitized historical newspapers published by and for the black community in the United States.
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers: U.S. Jewish Newspaper Collection: Digitized historical newspapers published by and for the Jewish American community in the United States.
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.