This document provides descriptions of various primary source collections available through ProQuest relating to history, government, and policy. It includes summaries of collections on U.S. and U.K. government documents, historical newspapers and periodicals, women's history, the civil rights movement, military conflicts, and more. Each collection offers access to important archival materials for researching topics across many disciplines.

1. ProQuest
Primary Source Materials

2. U.K. Specific
U.S. History Vault
27 Modules, Includes
Periodicals Archive
Online
EIMA, AAA, WOMENS
MAG ARCHIVE
ProQuest’s Digital Archives –Primary
Sources Materials
Government
Program
Historical Primary
Sources
Historical Books
Program
Historical
Periodicals
Historical
Newspapers
1700 – Current 1550 – Current 1473 – 1700 1681 – 2005 1764 – Current
U.S. Government
U.K. Government
Early English Books
Early European
Books
U.K. History
U.S. Newspapers
UK & International
Newspapers

3. GOVERNMENT SOURCES

4. Gain an inside view of U.S. History and Policymaking with
ProQuest Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, U.S. Serial
Set, Congressional Research Digital Collection and the
Congressional Record. History and public policy starts and ends
with Congressional committee hearings, Serial Set, CRS reports,
Committee Prints and Congressional Record. These collections
form an unparalleled documentary record of events and public
policy issues faced by America, as well as the objectives and
actions of Congress in dealing with these events and issues.
Congressional Core Collections (e.g. Base, Serial Set,
Hearings, CRDC, Congressional Record, Digital Bills
and Resolutions)
Description

5. The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers are vital to the
historical record of Britain, its former colonies and the wider world.
They are among the richest and most detailed primary sources for
the history of the past three centuries, and are fundamental to an
understanding of current legislation, policy-making and the political
environment.
House of Commons Parliamentary
Papers (18th – 20th Centuries)
Description

6. House of Lords Parliamentary Papers will provide online access to previously
unseen and valuable historical documents and the very first digitized
collection of 19th century House of Lords Parliamentary Papers. This unique
project done in partnership with the National Library of Scotland, will allow
those who are not able to access the documents in their physical form to
broaden their research into this essential 19th century government documents
resource. Enhancing the growing corpus of historical papers that ProQuest
have digitized – including the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers – this
new collection will improve research outcomes for scholars of British History,
British Government, Political Science, History and more. The House of Lords
content will be a part of ProQuest’s comprehensive government program,
which includes databases such as U.S. Congressional materials and
Executive Branch Documents from 1789, Documents on British Policy
Overseas (DBPO) and Digital National Security Archive (DNSA).
House of Lords Parliamentary Papers
Description

7. Everyone who works in a regulated industry-public health and
medicine, energy, finance, education, to name just a few is
impacted by the implementation of laws. Regulatory Insight seeks
to facilitate teaching and learning about administrative law by legal
researchers, as well as academic researchers from many other
disciplines.
Regulatory Insight
Description

8. Indian Claims Insight allows users to research the history of U.S.
Indian claims from 1789-present through a unique interface. Easy
and powerful tools allow searches of relevant primary content from
multiple viewpoints to meet a variety of research needs, primarily
in legal, U.S. history, and Native American studies.
Indian Claims Insight
Description

9. Latest addition to product group that already includes Legislative
Insight and Regulatory Insight. Compiles Supreme Court materials,
including amicus briefs, for each case, with editorial value-add and
functionality to facilitate teaching, learning, and research. Available
as a stand-alone product with links from ProQuest Congressional,
Legislative Insight, and Regulatory Insight, as appropriate for
entitled customers.
Supreme Court Insight, 1975-present
Description

10. Legislative histories may be used to discover the legislative intent
behind a specific law and to aid in the teaching of legislative
process to law school and main campus students. The histories
also offer insight into laws of general interest to political science,
government, and U.S. history researchers, as well as to students
preparing for careers in public health, education, business, or any
other discipline subject to federal regulation.
Legislative Insight
Description

11. A wide array of documents produced by the Federal government
from our nation’s founding through the early 20th century. In
addition to a record of Federal department and agency activities,
this collection offers historical context with insight into virtually all
facets of society. Entire range of executive branch publications
listed in the 1909 Checklist—but not included in Serial Set. Topics
span business and industry, foreign trade, navigation, immigration
and population, health, causes of death, religious affiliations,
military operations, weather conditions, and more. Fully searchable
PDFs, including annotations or abstracts and indexed names.
Collection 1 (1789-1932); Collection 2 (1933-1939)
Executive Branch Documents,
Collection 1, 2
Description

12. A wide array of documents produced by the Federal government
from our nation’s founding through the early 20th century. In
addition to a record of Federal department and agency activities,
this collection offers historical context with insight into virtually all
facets of society. Entire range of executive branch publications
listed in the 1909 Checklist, but not included in Serial Set. Topics
span business and industry, foreign trade, navigation, immigration
and population, health, causes of death, religious affiliations,
military operations, weather conditions, and more. Fully searchable
PDFs, including annotations or abstracts and indexed names.
Collection 3 (1940-1942); Collection 4 (1943-1945)
Executive Branch Documents
(Collection 3,4)
Description

13. Only ProQuest makes available a complete collection of
Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders 1789-present,
searchable with all other ProQuest Congressional content, with
extensive editorial value-add. Contains 82,000+ numbered &
unnumbered executive orders & proclamations.
Executive Orders & Presidential
Proclamations
Description

14. Digital National Security Archive unlocks a vast trove of important
declassified U.S. government documents, providing vital primary
source material to advance research in 20th and 21st century
history, politics, and international relations.
The digitized documents are made available in over 40 topic-based
collections, with two new collections added each year. The curation
of each collection is overseen by subject-area scholars to ensure
the material provides the most discerning coverage of the topic.
Digital National Security Archive
(DNSA) Collection (1-46)
Description

15. Digital National Security Archive unlocks a vast trove of important
declassified U.S. government documents, providing vital primary
source material to advance research in twentieth and twenty-first
century history, politics, and international relations.
The digitized documents are made available in over 40 topic-based
collections, with two new collections added each year. The curation
of each collection is overseen by subject-area scholars to ensure
the material provides the most discerning coverage of the topic.
Digital National Security Archive
(DNSA) (1-5; 6-10; 11-15; or 16-20)
Description

16. This set of Kissinger conversations includes many that the State
Department had denied for years on executive privilege grounds.
Many of them are telephone conversations with President Ford,
Vice President Rockefeller, and national security adviser Brent
Scowcroft during 1975 and 1976. They cover a wide range of
issues including the end of the Vietnam war, U.S-Soviet relations,
the Middle East peace process and the 1976 elections.
DNSA (Collection 47) The Kissinger
Conversations, Supplement II: A Verbatim
Record of U.S. Diplomacy, 1969-1977
Description

17. This compilation of over 2,500 Presidential Daily Briefings from the
Kennedy and Johnson administrations details the most important
security and intelligence information that the CIA prepared for the
Presidents. The briefings cover a wide range of topics including the
Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and U.S-Soviet relations.
DNSA (Collection 48) CIA Presidential Daily
Briefings of Kennedy and Johnson, 1961-1969
Description

18. Historical Statistical Abstracts of the United States – We are
unlocking all 132 years of PDF-based tables and making them
available as Excel spreadsheets.
Collection 1: 1970-2012
Collection 2: 1929-1969
Historical Statistical Abstracts of
the U.S. (1929-2012)
Description

19. Historical Statistical Abstracts of the United States – We are
unlocking all 132 years of PDF-based tables and making them
available as Excel spreadsheets.
Historical Statistical Abstracts of the U.S.
(Collection 3 1878-1928)
Description

20. This history database contains tens of thousands of U.K.
government documents relating to Britain’s international relations,
including foreign policy instructions, letters and memos, business
reports, and more. These primary source materials have been
selected by the official historians of Britain’s Foreign and
Commonwealth Office (FCO) and, in many cases, have been
declassified at their request for inclusion in this series.
Documents on British Policy
Overseas
Description

21. Not only will researchers be able to easily track legislative
activities, they will also discover historically rich content inserted
into the Record, including the text of bills, amendments to
resolutions, roll call votes, conference reports, debates,
correspondence to foreign governments from Cabinet secretaries,
and much more.
Congressional Record (B, or C)
Description

22. Both Committee Prints and CRS reports help legislators formulate
policy decisions and provide to the public an idea of how Congress
comes to its policy-making conclusions. Where the documents
diverge is in their point of view. CRS reports provide an impartial
view of the topic at hand while Committee Prints set forth partisan
viewpoints. By combining the two complementary document types
into one collection, the ProQuest Congressional Research Digital
Collection allows users to consider policy decision from a fuller
view, giving their research more contextual relevance. In addition,
this collection provides researchers with clearly stated summaries
of many issues of the day, and can be used as a jumping-off point
to begin research on a wide variety of topics in almost all academic
disciplines.
Congressional Research Service
(CRDC) (B, C, D, E, F, or G)
Description

23. Part II of the Serial Set Digital Collection contains all published
House and Senate documents and reports from 1970 to the
present. The reports are usually from congressional committees
dealing with proposed legislation and issues under investigation.
Researchers will find them valuable because they explain the
legislative intent of bills under consideration.
Serial Set Part 2
(C, D, E, F, G, H, or I)
Description

24. The Serial Set Maps collection is a collection of more than 70,000
maps printed as part of the Congressional Serial Set. With the
High-Resolution Maps Module, more than 50% of these are
scanned at high resolution enabling users to see and download the
smallest details on the map.
Serial Set Maps
Description

25. Gain an inside view of U.S. policymaking with the ProQuest
Congressional Hearings Digital Collection. The collection forms an
unparalleled documentary record of events and public policy
issues faced by America, as well as the objectives and actions of
Congress in dealing with these events and issues. Full-text
searching accompanied by PDFs.
Congressional Hearings (C, D, E,
F, or G) Unpublished (A, B, or C)
Description

26. Legislative histories show how a bill becomes a law. This federal
legislative history service makes available thoroughly researched
compilations of digital full-text publications relevant to enacted U.S.
public laws. Researchers can search seamlessly between
collections when more than one module is purchased.
Legislative Insight (2013-2015)
Description

27. HISTORICAL PRIMARY SOURCES

28. ProQuest History Vault debuted in 2011 and is continuously growing to include numerous archival
collections documenting the most important and widely studied topics in 18th – through 20th century
American history. These modules are part of a long-term plan to collect and build modules of rich and
varied content that create a full spectrum of archival materials to complement coursework in many areas
including African American studies, women’s studies, history, political science, military and diplomatic
history, immigration, and more. Institutions can build their collections over time to provide an unparalleled
research experience for their students and faculty who would otherwise be unable to access materials
held at geographically dispersed archives. Thematic modules are available via:
Civil Rights and Black Freedom Struggle (Black Freedom 1-4, NAACP Papers 1-6)
American Politics and Society (Immigration Records of the INS, 1880-1930; American Indians and the
American West; New Deal and World War II, Law & Society Since the Civil War; Thomas A Edison Papers; Workers,
Labor Union and the American Left in the 20th Century; FBI Confidential Files and Radicalism in the US, 1945-1972;
American Politics & Society from JFK to Watergate)
International Relations and Military Conflicts (U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944; OSS State
Department Intelligence and Research Reports, 1941-1961; U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, 1914-1945; Confidential
U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960-1969, Europe and Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, Asia;
Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975, WW II Documents on Planning Operations, Intelligence, Axis
War Crimes and Refugees)
Southern Life, Slavery and the Civil War (Southern Life and African American History, 1775-1915,
Plantations Records, Part 1,2; Confederate Military Manuscripts and Records of Union Generals and the Union
Army)
Women's Studies (Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schleshinger Library; Struggle for Women’s
Rights, 1880-1990 Organizational Records; Women at Work During WW II)
History Vault: 33 modules available
Description

29. This module focuses on those U.S. State Department Central Files that have
not been microfilmed by the National Archives or distributed by other
publishers. It contains a wide range of sensitive materials from U.S. diplomats
in foreign countries: reports on political, military, and socioeconomic matters;
interviews and minutes of meetings with foreign government officials;
important letters, instructions, and cables sent and received by U.S.
diplomatic personnel; and reports and translations from foreign journals and
newspapers. Among issues in the Africa and Middle East module is the pivotal
1964 Rivonia trial of Nelson Mandela and leaders of the African National
Congress.
History Vault: Confidential U.S. State
Department Central Files, 1960-1969, Africa
and the Middle East
Description

30. A highly unique resource, this module contains two major sets of records
documenting the experience of American women during World War II:
Records of the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, and
Correspondence of the Director of the Women’s Army Corps. Primary sources
document a wide range of issues pertinent to women during this time of
turbulent change, including studies on the treatment of women by unions in
several midwestern industrial centers, and the influx of women to industrial
centers during the war. Topics covered in records and correspondence include
women’s work in war industries, pivotal issues like equal pay, childcare and
race, and extensive documentation on the women who joined and served in
the Women’s Army Corps as WACs.
History Vault: Women at Work during WW II:
Rosie the Riveter and the Women's Army Corp
Description

31. This module contains records from the FBI and the Subversive Activities
Control Board. Under the leadership of the infamous J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI
vigorously investigated and tracked the activities of Communist groups,
Communist-front groups, and other radical organizations in the United States.
Highlights include Hoover’s office files; documentation on the FBI’s so-called
“black bag jobs,” as they were called before being renamed “surreptitious
entries”; and the “Do Not File” File. Prominent subjects covered in the
“Surreptitious Entries” file pertain to the Socialist Workers Party and the
Weather Underground, both dating from the early 1970s. The records of the
Subversive Activities Control Board (SACB), an invaluable resource for the
study of left-wing radicalism of the 1950s and 1960s, are also included in this
module.
History Vault: FBI Confidential Files and
Radical Politics in the U.S., 1945-1972
Description

32. This module consists of a wide range of collections documenting the American workers and
labor unions in the 20th century, with a special emphasis on the interaction between workers
and the U.S. federal government. The collection opens with Strike Files of the U.S.
Department of Justice, records of the Woodrow Wilson Administration and American Workers
and records on U.S. government surveillance of radical workers. These Strike Files provide a
complete record of the Department of Justice’s evolving policies of intervention in labor
disputes and documentation on the major strikes during the period from 1894-1920. Other
records in the collection provide a window into the daily operations of private industry during a
time of radical social change, such as labor struggles by copper miners, the deportation of
Industrial Workers of the World-affiliated miners in Arizona in July 1917, and the tumultuous
situation among workers in the Chicago meat-packing industry. The government surveillance
files consist of U.S. Military Intelligence Reports on radicals from 1917-1941 and Department
of Justice investigations of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), the Communist Party,
and the use of military force by the federal government in domestic disturbances between
1900 and 1938. The U.S. Military Intelligence Reports contain files on IWW strikes during and
immediately after World War I, as well as files on anarchist, socialist, social democratic, and
libertarian groups. The other collections in this module covering unemployment relief in the
1930s, farm tenancy, labor strife during World War II, and records on migratory labor in the
1950s and 1960s.
History Vault: Workers, Labor Unions, and the
American Left in the 20th Century: Federal
Records
Description

33. Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960-1969, Asia:
This module focuses on those U.S. State Department Files that
have not been microfilmed by the National Archives or distributed
by other publishers. It contains a wide range of sensitive materials
from U.S. diplomatics in foreign countries: reports on political,
military, and socioeconomic matters; interviews and minutes of
meetings with foreign government officials; important letters,
instructions, and cables sent and received by U.S. diplomatic
personnel; and reports and translations from foreign journals and
newspapers. Topics in the 3rd module, Asia, cover the Cultural
Revolution in China, and relations between Buddhists and the
Vietnamese government.
History Vault: Confidential U.S. State
Department Central Files,1960-1969, Asia
Description

34. The Civil War is one of the most heavily studied and frequently
debated periods in American History. More than 150 years after the
end of the Civil War, research interest in the Civil War continues to
be strong, and the possibility of using new or previously underused
sources can lead to new research discoveries about this seminal
event in American History. The collections in this module will offer
researchers the opportunity to make new research discoveries in
the study of the Civil War because these collections are being
published digitally for the first time in ProQuest History Vault. This
module will consist of unique collections documenting the
Confederate Army and the Union Army.
History Vault: Confederate Military Manuscripts
and Records of the Union Generals and the
Union Army
Description

35. The search tool that allows users to search and browse 53,000
primary source audiovisual testimonies collected by the USC
Shoah Foundation. The collection includes testimonies of survivors
and witnesses of genocide, including:
• The Holocaust (1939-1945)
• Armenian Genocide (1915-1923)
• Nanjing Massacre (1937)
• Rwandan Tutsi Genocide (1994)
USC Shoah Foundation Visual History
Archive
Description

36. The Annual Register is a complete and detailed chronicle of events
from 1758 to the current day. The online version of the Annual
Register is a digitized version of this classic 250+ volume
reference work. Every year, a new volume is published describing
the past year's events.
Annual Register
Description

37. One of Elizabeth I’s closest advisors, William Cecil was both Lord
High Treasurer and Secretary of State – a position also held by his
son, who continued to serve Elizabeth’s successor, James I.
Occupying some of the highest offices of state in the land, these
men were at the heart of events during one of the most dynamic
periods in western history.
The Cecil Papers
Description

38. This first collection (CO 1) represents thousands of papers that
were presented to the Privy Council and the Board of Trade
between 1574-1757, and that relate to the governance of, and
activities in, the American, Canadian and West Indian colonies of
England. Colonial State Papers also includes the Calendar of
State Papers Colonial – an advanced bibliographic search tool
providing over 40,000 records of bibliographic description for
documents from many collections, including those of CO 1.
Colonial State Papers
Description

39. Until now the materials in the John Johnson Collection in the
Bodleian Library have remained largely hidden to scholars and
researchers due to the lack of appropriate finding aids and other
issues affecting access. This project sets out to conserve, catalog,
and digitize 65,000 items drawn from five subject areas: Crimes-
murders and executions, advertising, booktrade, 19th century
entertainment, and popular prints.
John Johnson Collection
Description

40. As well as detailing household and family matters, the journals
reflect affairs of state, describe meetings with statesmen and other
eminent figures, and comment on the literature of the day. Queen
Victoria’s journals represent a valuable primary source for scholars
of nineteenth century British political and social history and for
those working on gender and autobiographical writing.
This website reproduces every page of the surviving volumes of
Queen Victoria's journals (including draft volumes and copies
made by Lord Esher and Princess Beatrice), as high-resolution
color images along with separate photographs of the many
illustrations and inserts within the pages. Each page is also being
meticulously transcribed and re-keyed, allowing for journals to be
searched.
Queen Victoria's Journals
Description

41. Published by every type of military and support service unit, from
every involved nation, trench journals were a means of expression
through which men and women engaged in all aspects of World
War I could share their thoughts and experiences.
Trench Journals and Unit
Magazines of the First World War
Description

42. Black Studies Center delivers trusted sources for scholarly
research and teaching in Black Studies, integrated in a single
cross-searchable gateway. It includes scholarly journals,
commissioned overview essays by top scholars in Black Studies,
historic indexes, and the full-text of The Chicago Defender
newspaper, from 1910-1975. Also included are essay
bibliographies, with many of the items sourced in full-text,
multimedia clips and images, and a timeline.
Black Studies Center
Description

43. This vast, cross-cultural resource spans more than four centuries,
15 languages, and countries around the world. Users can trace the
evolution of feminism within a single country, as well as the impact
of that country's feminist movement on other countries and their
movements. The anti-feminist case is presented as well as the
pro-feminist, with many other titles presenting a purely objective
record of the condition of women at a given time.
The Gerritsen Collection of Aletta
H. Jacobs
Description

44. Mapping a century of change, Sanborn fire insurance maps offer
detailed property and land-use records for more than 12,000 U.S.
towns and cities. The 660,000+maps are valuable historical tools
for anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth and
development of American cities.
Digital Sanborn Maps
Description

45. The works of the Church Fathers, from Tertullian in 200 AD to the
death of Pope Innocent III in 1216, are brought together in the
Patrologia Latina database. This collection contains influential
works of late ancient and early medieval theology, philosophy,
history and literature, including all prefatory material, original texts,
critical apparatus, indexes and illustrations.
Patralogia Latina
Description

46. Research into the societies and cultures of this period relies
heavily on hagiographical literature, and specifically on this
monumental collection of texts published over a period of 300
years by the Societe des Bollandistes. The collection contains the
complete texts of 68 printed volumes, from the two January
volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum of December
published in 1940.
Acta Sanctorum
Description

47. HISTORICAL BOOKS

48. Building on the success of EEBO, ProQuest has embarked on a
European-wide project which will trace the industry of printing in
Europe from its origins in 1450 to 1700, including materials printed
in European languages, from the early modern period. The
contents are drawn from major national libraries and key
repositories. The works encompass science, the history of
medicine, philosophy, theology, literature, history, political science,
travel and exploration.
Early European Books Collections
1-8
Description

49. This collection will be covering the last of the material from KBNL
in The Hague and KB in Copenhagen, and the prized incunabula
from the Wellcome library. On the Incunabula: The earliest printed
works in the Wellcome Library are the incunabula - books printed
before 1501. This collection numbers more than 600 volumes,
most of which were acquired during Sir Henry Wellcome’s lifetime
(1853–1936), and it is one of the most important collections of
medical incunabula in the world. Reflecting the breadth of Henry
Wellcome’s collecting interests, as well as the fact that medicine
intersected with many other fields of knowledge in this period, it
also includes works that relate to non-medical subjects, such as
Hartmann Schedel’s richly-illustrated Liber chronicarum (The
Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493).
Early European Books Collection 9
Description

50. Early European Books offers users a research experience as close
as possible to actually being with the book. Researchers can see
every page and feature rendered on screen in fine, crisp images.
This collection will be 100% from the BnF and will be the start of
the Philosophy, History and Social Science section of the library.
Early European Books Collection 10
Description

51. Early English Books Online have been digitized directly from the
UMI Early English Books Online, presenting over 130,000 classic
early English works as they appeared in their original format. User
can see exactly what the first printed edition of The Canterbury
Tales looked like, or compare Shakespeare's quartos, page by
page. Included are works by Malory, Spenser, Bacon, More,
Erasmus, Boyle, Newton and Galileo. The collection also includes
musical exercises by Henry Purcell, novels by Aphra Behn as well
as prayer books, pamphlets, proclamations, almanacs, calendars
and other primary resources.
EEBO
Description

52. Early English Books Online – Text Creation Partnership Part I –
transcriptions of approximately 25,000 texts in EEBO.
Text Creation Partnership Part II – transcriptions of approximately
35,000 texts in EEBO.
EEBO Text Creation Partnership
(TCP I, II)
Description

53. HISTORICAL PERIODICALS

54. This collection delivers coverage of 15 major serials – including the
Newsweek archive – spanning areas including current events,
international relations, and public policy. These titles offer multiple
perspectives on the contemporary contexts of the major events,
trends, and interests in these fields throughout the twentieth
century. The collection will provide valuable primary source content
for researchers in fields ranging from history and political science,
through to law and economics.
News, Policy and Politics
Magazine Archive
Description

55. This rich resource comprises archival runs of leading women’s
consumer magazines of the 20th century. A unique collection of
many of the most eminent and socially significant titles in this field,
each of these monthly titles chronicles decades of social, historical
and cultural trends. The titles are considered essential primary
sources by many researchers in the fields of gender studies, social
history, business and marketing, fashion, media, and more.
Women’s Magazine Archive 1
Description

56. This new module builds on the first Women’s Magazine Archive
collection by providing access to the archives of more leading
women’s consumer publications of the 19th and 20th centuries,
including Cosmopolitan, Town & Country, and Woman’s Day.
Among the topics covered by these publications are gender roles,
race, popular culture, fashion, health, and family life/parenting. The
collection serves research interests across multiple disciplines,
from gender studies, social history and fashion, to marketing,
politics, and the arts.
Women’s Magazine Archive 2
Description

57. Vogue is a unique record of American and international popular
culture that extends beyond fashion. The Vogue Archive is an
essential primary source for the study of fashion, gender, and
modern social history – past, present, and future.
Vogue
Description

58. The complete run of Vogue Italia – one of the most influential and renowned
international editions of Vogue – from its launch in 1964 to present.
Recognized as the least commercials and most artistic edition of Vogue, its
many innovative, often controversial, initiatives include an all-black issue for
July 2008, featuring only black models and offering articles about black
women in the arts. Vogue Italia’s appeal and influence is international, with
almost half of its issues typically being sold outside of Italy.
Whereas international editions of Vogue are recognized as representing some
of the principal sources for research in fashion and related field, few libraries
outside the country of a given edition have maintained substantial print
holding of these publications overtime. Even where good print holdings do
exist, conducting paper-based research across several decades of content is
impractical for most researchers. By offering access to the complete run of
Vogue Italia, ProQuest allows researchers to pursue new lines of inquiry
against one of the most influential international Vogue editions. Vogue Italia
– one of the most influential and renowned international editions of
Vogue – from its launch in 1964 to the present. Recognized as the
Vogue Italia
Description

59. ProQuest has created the first digital archive of Harper’s Bazaar,
spanning 1867 through the current issue. Research outcomes in
areas as wide-ranging as fashion, design, art, women’s studies,
gender studies, marketing and business will be improved through
simple online access and precision searching of both text and
images from the magazine’s entire run.
Harper’s Bazaar
Description

60. This authoritative record of how the fashion industry developed
over the twentieth century provides valuable primary source
material for students across the disciplines of fashion, business,
and history.
Women's Wear Daily
Description

61. More than 100 years of prestigious British lifestyle content is
available in Country Life Archive, now a standalone database,
which enables researchers to access more primary sources of
British culture from across the 20th century. This collection contains
every page and issue of this historical weekly magazine from its
first issue in 1896 through 2005. Country Life Archive chronicles
the uniquely quintessential lifestyle of the privileged British upper-
class and its many transformations as it acclimated and changed
from one century to another, including how it evolved during the
height of the British Empire and through two major world wars, and
then to a current-day environment.
Country Life Archive
Description

62. This primary source collection spans the spectrum of arts and the
history of architecture, from fine and applied arts, through to
interior and industrial design, landscape gardening and restoration.
This is an essential resource for the vocational study and scholarly
research of the arts from the late 19th to the 21st century.
Art & Architecture Archive
Description

63. From its origins in the 17th century through to the Victorian “age of
periodicals” and beyond, the collection provides unique insights
into Britain's political, economic, and social influence on the wider
world. In addition to providing access to landmark texts by major
authors, British Periodicals offers exciting new ways to explore the
inaccessible, neglected or forgotten writings that formed their
original contexts.
British Periodicals 1, 2
Description

64. These titles are from the prestigious stable of illustrated periodicals
known as “The Great Eight” in British periodical publishing history.
This long-awaited collection is the follow-up to the highly popular
and successful British Periodicals I-II. Although the publications
within this latest collection are similar in character to those in
Collections I-II, Collection III will extend the scope of the program
by focusing on the first half of the 20th century (in contrast to the
18th and 19th century emphasis of Collections I-II). In offering high-
quality primary source serials covering politics, news, culture and
society, Collection III will fill a crucial gap in the availability of this
type of material for the period.
British Periodicals 3
Description

65. British Periodicals is a unique, transformative resource offering a
vast corpus of material charting contemporary comment on the
interests, attitudes, and events across three centuries of British
history, culture, and politics. The 4th collection builds on Collection
III by continuing the expansion of the program into the 20th century,
offering full archival coverage of several of the leading magazines
of the period. Titles are: The Field (1853-2005), Tribune (1937-
2005), The Highway (1903-1959), War Weekly (1939-1941),
Answers to Correspondents (1888-1955), Humorist (1922-1940),
Wide World Magazine (1898-1965), The Marvel (1893-1922), Top
Spot (1958-1960), Picture Show (1919-1960).
British Periodicals 4
Description

66. Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive is a vast collection of the most
significant 20th Century US and UK trade and consumer magazines
organized into two thematic collections covering “Music, Radio and The
Stage” and “Film and Television. With around 2.5M pages of content in total,
EIMA allows for a remarkable survey of popular culture over the expanse of
the century in which the entertainment industry came, more than any other, to
define popular culture, attitudes and ideas and aspirations.
Modules:
• EIMA 1: Music, Radio and The Stage
• Contains titles such as Billboard, The Beat, NME, Melody Maker, The
Stage and Record Mirror
• EIMA 2: Film and Television
• Contains titles such as Variety, Screen International, Broadcast, Boxoffice
and American Film.
Entertainment Industry Magazine
Archive (EIMA) Collection 1, 2
Description

67. Periodicals Archive Online is a landmark digital archive offering an
exceptional cross-disciplinary body of two centuries of periodical
scholarship in the arts, humanities and social sciences, amounting
to 15M digitized page images. Users can quickly access a wealth
of research material spanning multiple disciplines and publication
types; in one place they have access to a huge selection of the key
published research from as far back as 1802, through to the 21st
century. Libraries, in acquiring this fully archival resource, can not
only serve a wide array of faculty and students research needs, but
gain a powerful collection development tool that allows up to 1.8
linear miles of shelving space to be saved by replacing print
volumes, while building holdings of new titles without creating any
physical burden.
Periodicals Archive Online
Collections 1-7
Description

68. Periodicals Archive Online is a major electronic archive of over 700 scholarly journal back files, within
the arts, humanities and social sciences. Each title is digitized from cover to cover, in full page-image
format, from its first issue through to a termination point of 2000/2005. Content spanning two centuries
is available, serving the full range of humanities and social sciences subject areas. It is also
international in scope, with more than 20 languages represented. In total, it comprises more than 15M
pages of content and 3.5M articles and is the equivalent of 1.8 linear miles of shelf space for the
corresponding print volumes.
Collection 8
• 68 titles
• 20% of the journals are in languages other than English
• Key Titles include: The New Statesman (1913-2000), The Nation and Athenaeum (1907-1931),
Universitas (1952-1994), Psychiatry (1938-2000), Diogene (1952-2000)
Collection 9
• 75 titles
• 15% of the journals are in languages other than English
• Key titles include: New Leader (1925-2000), Dickensian (1905-2000), Foundation (1972-2000)
Collection 10
• 65 titles
• 15% of the journals are in languages other than English
• Key titles include: Maclean’s (1905-2000), Queen’s Quarterly ( ), new left signal ( ), Signal ( )
Periodicals Archive Online
Collections 8, 9, or 10
Description

69. Periodicals Index Online (PIO) (formerly, Periodicals Contents
Index (PCI)), is the leading multidisciplinary index to the arts,
humanities, and the social sciences. Over 6,000 journals are
included, with around one million records from new journals added
yearly. Complete runs of these titles are indexed, from first issue to
1995 or ceased date.
Periodicals Index Online Super
Segments
Description

70. Periodicals Index Online – with over 22M article citations in the
humanities and social sciences, spanning 300 years of
scholarship, 37 subjects, and over 60 languages – continues to
grow with approximately 400,000 additional citations in 2015. Plus,
many new journals are being indexed and extra records will be
added for numerous existing titles as part of an ongoing initiative to
extend the default coverage termination date for the index from
1995 to 2000. Subscription customers automatically receive this
new content which may alternatively be acquired on a perpetual
access basis as the standalone module.
Periodicals Index Online –
Segments 49,50
Description

71. View content published from the colonial period to the dawn of the
20th century, a resource that chronicles two centuries of America's
development.
American Periodicals Series
Description

72. A collection made possible via an innovative partnership between
ProQuest and the Center for Research Libraries, this collection
contains archival scans of journal content that can be cross-
searched with other historical periodical resources offered by
ProQuest. This colorful research collection spans the 19th century
through the dawn of the 20th century, and contains American
special interest and general magazines, labor and trade
publications, scientific and literary journals, photographic
periodicals and other historically significant titles. Researchers can
see all of the original typography, drawings, graphic elements and
article layouts exactly as they were originally published.
American Periodicals Series (CRL)
Description

73. An organizing force for research on the 19th century, C19 provides
integrated access to over 22M records, including several unique
and important indexes, including books, periodicals, official
documents, archives, newspapers and reference works.
C-19
Description

74. HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS

75. Choose from these Local Historical Newspapers:
Historical Newspapers (HNP)
Description
• The American Israelite – 1854-2000
• The American Hebrew & Jewish
Messenger – 1857-1922
• The Baltimore Afro-American – 1893-1988
• Chicago Defender – 1910-1975
• Cleveland Call & Post – 1934-1991
• Jewish Exponent – 1887-1990
• Los Angeles Sentinel – 1934-2005
• New York Amsterdam News – 1922-1993
• Pittsburg Courier – 1911-2002
• The Jewish Advocate – 1905-1990
• The Philadelphia Tribune – 1912-2001
• The Norfolk Journal & Guide – 1921-2003
• HNP Los Angeles Times
• HNP The Guardian & The Observer
• HNP Big 5: New York Times, Wall Street
Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles
Times, Christian Science Monitor; Regional
HNPs
• HNP Chinese Historical Newspapers
Collection – 1832-1953
• HNP Detroit Free Press
• HNP Irish Times & Weekly Irish Times
• HNP Jerusalem Post – 1932-2008
• HNP South China Morning Post –
1903-1996
• HNP The Globe and Mail – 1844-2012
• HNP The Scotsman
• HNP The Times of India – 1838-2006
• HNP Toronto Star – 1894-2011

76. Historical Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1786-2008)
Historical Detroit Free Press (expanding to 1923-2007)
Historical Philadelphia Inquirer (1829-2009)
Historical Minneapolis Star Tribune (1867-2007
 Page-level indexing
 Closed files (no new content will be added to these titles)
Historical Newspapers
Description

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