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.
January 2026
Adam Matthew Primary Source Databases
China on Film
Digitized 20th century films of life in China and Hong Kong, primarily filmed by Western travelers.
Foreign Office, Consulate and Legation Files, China
Digitized correspondence from the British legation and consulates in the cities of imperial and republican China.
Girlhood: Magazines and Print Culture
Digitized collection of magazines, periodicals, annuals, and comics marketed to girls during the 20th century.
A Global History of Epidemics, 1800-1970
Digitized primary sources documenting major epidemics.
Independent Publishing in America
Digitized primary sources documenting the book trade in the United States.
Latin American Histories in the United States
Digitized primary sources documenting everyday life, culture, and grassroots activism in Latin American communities.
The Nineteenth Century Stage
Digitized primary source collection documenting popular theatrical entertainment throughout the long 19th century in the U.S., U.K., and Australia.
September 2025
Research Commons
Journal index that expands Web of Science to include broader geographic, topic, and Open Access coverage.
August 2025
Statistical Abstracts of the World
Statistical abstracts from around 70 countries, plus global and regional statistics compiled by international organizations.
July 2025
Alexander Street databases
Rutgers University Libraries has begun a subscription that includes many new databases from Alexander Street. All of the Alexander Street 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. This is a list of all the new databases we have acquired from Alexander Street. Most of the new databases are nested in parent-child hierarchies, with each parent containing all the content in its child collections.
- ProQuest One Performing Arts (Alexander Street): Dance, music, and theatre multimedia collection, including scripts, scores, historical periodicals, and video performances, interviews, documentaries, and studio lessons.
- Dance Online: Multimedia collection of materials on dance, including video performances, documentaries, interviews, and studio lessons; digitized periodicals; dance notation; reference materials, and photos.
- Drama Texts Collection: Scripts of thousands of plays from around the world.
- Music Online: Listening Collection: Streaming audio tracks in a wide variety of musical genres, including classical, jazz, world, folk, rock, blues, gospel, R&B, the Great American Songbook, and more.
- Music Online: Music Periodicals of the 19th Century: Digitized historical American music periodicals.
- Music Reference Collection: Major reference works in African American music, classical music, and world music.
- Music Video Collection: Streaming video performances of classical, opera, rock, and pop music, plus documentaries, masterclasses, and interviews.
- Qwest TV EDU: Streaming videos of live performances of jazz, funk, soul, hip-hop, folk, indie, electronic, blues, Motown, and eclectic world music genres.
- Theatre Performance & Design Collection: Multimedia collection of streaming video and audio performances, production design materials, and primary and secondary sources.
- U.S. History Collection (Alexander Street): Primary sources covering U.S. history from the mid-1500s through the early 21st century.
- Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures, and the Environment: Digitized primary sources from 1534 - 1850 that depict the interactions between indigenous peoples, colonists, explorers, missionaries, traders, slaves, soldiers, and officials, including the perspectives of men and women.
- The Gilded Age: Digitized primary sources and interpretive materials covering the late 19th century in the United States.
- North American Indian Thought and Culture: Digitized primary sources on the histories of Indigenous peoples of North America.
- ProQuest One Entertainment & Popular Culture (Alexander Street): Digitized film scripts, comic books, advice columns, and documentary films.
- Popular Culture Studies in Video: Streaming videos covering 20th - 21st century popular culture, including documentaries on films, television, fashion, comics, and gaming.
- Twentieth Century Advice Literature: Digitized advice manuals, books, guides, and more from 20th century America.
- Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels: Digitized comics from around the world accompanied by comics industry magazines, interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism.
- The World of Archie Comics Archive: Digitized archive of the runs of more than 100 titles published by Archie Comics.
- Film Scripts Online: Digitized accurate and authorized versions of over 1000 screenplays.
- Global & International Studies Collection (Alexander Street): Digitized primary sources that illuminate global issues.
- Aging in the Modern World: Digitized reference materials, policies, videos, and government documents that illustrate the experiences and impacts of aging populations in global societies.
- Border and Migration Studies Online: Digitized government documents, letters, and ancillary materials on issues at key worldwide border areas.
- Contemporary Global Issues in Video: Documentaries covering humanitarian, environmental, and social issues.
- Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement: Digitized materials on how people experience disability, societal barriers, and the work of disability rights advocates in the 19th - 21st centuries.
- Early Experiences in Australasia: Primary Sources and Personal Narratives 1788-1901: Digitized personal accounts, letters, diaries, and narratives created by European colonists to Australia. Some materials by Indigenous peoples are also included.
- Engineering Case Studies Online: Streaming videos and digitized text material focused on engineering failures.
- Food Studies Online: Digitized primary and secondary sources, images, and videos that document how food has been understood in historical, sociological, and cultural contexts in the 20th-21st centuries.
- Human Rights Studies Online: Digitized materials that provide documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocities worldwide from 1900 to 2010.
- Mass Incarceration and Prison Studies: Digitized primary sources on the global history and contemporary use of prisons.
- Revolution and Protest Online: Digitized primary source materials from global protests, revolutions, and independence movements from the 18th - 21st centuries.
- Security Issues Online: Digitized primary source materials on threats to global security in the 20th & 21st centuries.
- The Sixties: Primary Sources and Personal Narratives, 1960-1974: Digitized primary source materials on political movements, social activism, and cultural change in the 1960s in the United States.
- Slavic and Eastern European Studies in Video: Videos on historical and current cultural and political developments in Eastern Europe.
- Social Theory: Influential writings representing the most important trends of sociological thought from the eighteenth century to the present day.
- Trade and Globalization Studies Online: Digitized primary and secondary sources on global trade.
- World Events and the Media: Digitized primary and secondary sources illustrating how journalists have covered global events and how the journalism profession has changed over time.
- Religion Archive Collection (Alexander Street): Seminal works, archival materials, and videos related to worldwide religious thinkers.
- Twentieth Century Religious Thought Library: Major works, archival materials, and videos related to worldwide religious thinkers from the early 1900s through the early 2000s. Religions represented include Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, and Taoism.
- Digital Library of Classic Protestant Texts: Primary sources written by Protestant reformers during the Protestant Reformation and post-Reformation eras.
- Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation: Primary sources written by Roman Catholic theologians during and after the Protestant Reformation.
- ProQuest One Anthropology (Alexander Street): Digitized resources for the study of anthropology, ethnography, and global human diversity.
- Anthropological Fieldwork Online: Digitized collection of the fieldwork and ethnographies created by prominent anthropologists.
- Anthropology Online: Published ethnographies, major works, memoirs, contemporary studies, and archival material covering human culture and behavior around the world.
- Contemporary Anthropology: Archaeological Fieldwork and Methods: Digitized archival and textual material relating to archaeological excavations, methods, and practices conducted by the Cusichaca Trust in the South-Central Andes from the 1980s-2010s.
- Ethnographic Sound Archives Online: Historical audio field recordings of music from around the world with accompanying materials.
- Ethnographic Video Online, Royal Anthropological Institute Teaching Edition: Digitized streaming videos in ethnography with accompanying teaching guides.
- Art and Architecture in Video: Documentaries and interviews covering theory and practice of art of various periods and regions.
- Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library: Fashion shows, designer profiles, and global fashion documentaries from the late 1970s - mid-2010s.
Other databases
ASTM Digital Library
Journals, books, and conference proceedings in all engineering disciplines.
ProQuest Government Periodicals Index
Index of periodicals published by agencies and departments of the U.S. Federal government.
ProQuest Indian Claims Insight
Compiled docket histories of U.S. Indian claims from 1789 to the present.
ProQuest Statistical Insight
Statistics from public and private sector sources worldwide in a wide variety of subject areas.
ProQuest Supreme Court Insight
U.S. Supreme Court documents from heard cases and certiorari denied cases.
ProQuest Trends & Policy
Curated sets of U.S. government documents, federal statistics, and news coverage that allow you to study U.S. policy by topic.
ProQuest U.K. Parliamentary Papers
Papers produced by the British House of Commons and House of Lords.
ProQuest TDM Studio
Text and data mining tool for analyzing content from nearly all of Rutgers University Libraries' ProQuest databases.
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.