A multidisciplinary database with full-text articles in the arts, business, health, medicine, history, science, technology, social sciences. Includes scholarly articles, professional publication, and magazines.
More than 350 newspapers, many with full-text. Coverage 1995 to present. The Major Newspapers collection includes The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and more.
The ProQuest Platform is home to a large number of databases. These databases can be searched separately or together using the same interface. Regardless of which database(s) you use on the ProQuest Platform, you should be able to:
Some of the content on this website is not fully accessible:
Textual content includes content originally published in scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, books, and other textual sources. The example shown in the screenshot below is an article from a trade journal that was found on ABI/INFORM Collection, a database on the ProQuest Platform. The features shown here are common across most textual records. Below the title you will find the formats available for that document. The most common options are “Full text” and “Full text – PDF.” When available, other format types will also be listed in this area.
For many records, ProQuest offers the full text in HTML format. For records with this format, you will be able to use standard browser functionality to enlarge and reflow the text. Color and other properties of page elements can be manipulated by assistive technologies or browser plugins. When this format is available, you will see the label “Full text” in a tab above the article text.
For text-to-speech, you can use the inbuilt text to speech functionality in the Edge browser (Windows only) or explore browser plugins for Chrome and Firefox.
The image viewer tool allows you to zoom, rotate and pan large resolution images included in full text documents. Images can also be manipulated using a keyboard-only option.
Some records include the original PDF from the publisher as an alternate format. Other records, including dissertations and theses offer this PDF as the only full text option.
The accessibility of the original PDFs found on the ProQuest Platform varies depending on the manufacturing process used by the original publisher. Despite having a fixed layout, most PDFs include text that can be selected, copied, and read by assistive technologies. Rather than reading the PDF on ProQuest’s on-page display, you may find that downloading the PDF and opening it in a PDF reader will give you more options to manipulate the format and appearance of the text. You can do this by using the “Download PDF” option found directly after the title of the document.
Some PDFs contain text that is not able to be searched or selected. In general, PDFs published more recently will have more accessibility features.
If your research involves referencing historical records or magazines in their original presentation format, you may encounter documents created from scanned images, where the text is not selectable or accessible by assistive technologies. Where possible, ProQuest offers an on-demand service that will use OCR (optical character recognition) technology to create a readable version of the text within the scanned image. For more guidance about how to access these records, including instructions about how to generate this plain text version, please read our support article: Generating a text version of scanned image documents.
A keyboard-only option for manipulating images is also available. This tool allows you to zoom, rotate, and pan the image without using a mouse. To learn more about how to use this tool, read this support article: Using the Keyboard Accessible Image Viewer on the ProQuest Platform.
Books on the ProQuest Platform come in several digital formats. The vast majority of these books can be searched, navigated with a persistent table of contents, and are accessible to screen readers. The specific format and accessibility features for a given book may vary. To learn more about the accessibility of books on the ProQuest Platform, read this support article: Books and Accessibility on the ProQuest Platform.
The majority of video and audio content on the ProQuest Platform have features designed for accessibility, including independent controls for volume, searchable time-stamped transcripts, and closed captions.
Some older videos may not feature closed captions, but most of these have accessible transcripts. Transcripts are often automatically featured with video content.
Transcripts can also be downloaded in text format by opening the “All Options” menu.
Select “PDF” or “TXT” under the “Other Options” heading.
You can change the display size of text used throughout ProQuest directly within your browser.
Note: If you use a Mac, hold down the Apple/Command key (versus the Windows CTRL key) and press the + or - key, as appropriate for the following browsers.
Open the View menu and choose from the options under Zoom.
Press CTRL + + to increase text size, and CTRL + - to decrease text size.
Press CTRL + 0 to reset to default text size.
Press the Control the current page button and choose from the options under Text Zoom.
Press CTRL + + to increase text size, and CTRL + - to decrease text size.
Press CTRL + 0 to reset to default text size.
Open the Settings and More menu and Zoom in and out to your desired text size.
Press CTRL + + to increase text size, and CTRL + - to decrease text size.
Press CTRL + 0 to reset to default text size.
To increase or decrease text size, open the View menu and choose from the options under Text Size. Alternatively, press CTRL + + to increase text size, or CTRL + - to decrease text size.
To set a minimum font size, choose the appropriate font size in the Advanced pane of Safari preferences.
If you find certain color combinations difficult to read, your browser may provide tools to change the text and background colors for viewing Web pages. You can apply these changes to over-ride the styles set by ProQuest. The following are options available in the main browsers supported by ProQuest:
Open the Tools menu.
Choose Options.
Click the Colors button from the Content tab.
Deselect the Use system colors checkbox.
Select your color preferences
Deselect the Allow pages to choose their own colors… checkbox and click OK.
Click the 'hamburger' menu icon in the upper right corner of the Chrome window.
Click Settings.
Click the Show advanced settings link at the bottom of the page.
Click the Add additional accessibility features link at the bottom of the page.
Browse and select available Chrome Accessibility extensions.
Safari does not allow you to easily change the background, text, visited link, and unvisited link colors. However, you can use your own style sheets to view web pages:
Open the Edit menu.
Select Preferences.
Click Advanced.
Select Other from the Stylesheet menu.
Navigate to the style sheet you wish to use.
Click Open.
You can choose to translate either a document’s abstract, or its full text.
Click the Translate link, and select a language. When you have selected your preferred language, click the Translate button. With a translation performed, the link toggles to Undo Translation.
Important to know: When you click Translate, a disclaimer advises that this is an "on-the-fly" machine translation, and “is in no way intended to replace human translation.”
