“Our two new options for ProQuest Historical Newspapers—one a simplified interface and one a subset of essential primary source materials—will make this landmark collection even more accessible for younger scholars and for customers who may not be highly experienced researchers. Each is tailored for its audience, and each has highlights and features that bring history alive on the desktops of schools and libraries around the world,” said Al De Seta, president of K-12, ProQuest Information and Learning.
Both options are available to K-12 schools and other institutions serving student audiences, especially public libraries and community colleges. The new enhancements tap into the riches contained in ProQuest Historical Newspapers, an exclusive file of primary historical content created by ProQuest Information and Learning for educational institutions and libraries around the world. Newspapers covered by ProQuest Historical Newspapers include The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. The collection offers ready access to the full content of each newspaper starting from its very first issue.
ProQuest Historical Newspapers Graphical Interface
Available for use with the full run of all titles in the original edition of the historical newspaper collection, the new interface enables new functionality: results sorted by era; “On This Day,” a showcase of front pages for every day of the year; and “Famous Dead People,” a collection of the most-studied people who are now deceased.
It offers easy-to-use functionality for novice users or seasoned scholars:
- “On This Day” showcases a high-impact newspaper front page for each day of the year—designed to engage students immediately in the database content and the use of historical documents through recognizable events“Famous Dead People” highlights the published memorials and retrospective articles of 500 of the most-studied and requested persons of the past 150 years
- Page PDFs and Page maps allow users to see articles in context and to browse the paper as it originally appeared
- Users can limit their searches by selecting one paper from the drop down next to “publication” (Useful if library subscribes to more than one historical newspaper file.)
ProQuest Historical Newspapers Student Edition
This easy-to-use interface engages students and taps the rich content stores of ProQuest Historical Newspapers—an exceptional repository of unique primary source documents. Designed specifically for middle and high-school aged students, the Student Edition is aligned directly to U.S. history curriculum.
- This edition covers United States history from 1851 forward, covering the top 25 topics in American history with more than 7,000 articles on nearly 1,000 related key events. Future editions in the series may include World History and Social History.
- A timeline highlights the top 250 subtopics organized by decades and years. Topics closely follow U.S. history topics as presented by popular textbook table of contents, making the Student Edition an excellent primary source document supplement to classroom coursework. The Student Edition timeline and topics will also be available within the Graphical Interface.
- Articles must be authoritative on the event, provide insight and reporting contemporary to the event, and be of substantial length for research use. Content is pulled from all historical newspaper files in the program. In the first release, The New York Times content makes up approximately 75% of the information.
- Students can browse the database using a Flash-enabled timeline organized by decades, or they can search or browse the topic tree by subject. Because the interface is intuitive, students spend less time finding content and more time using it.
Free trials are available. Libraries may receive more information by contacting their account representative at 1-800-521-0600, ext. 3183 or 3452 (outside the U.S., call +44-1-223-215-512) or pqsales@il.proquest.com . Editors may call 1-800-521-0600, ext. 6489 or email pr@il.proquest.com .
About ProQuest Information and Learning
ProQuest Information and Learning is a world leader in collecting, organizing, and publishing information worldwide for researchers, faculty, and students in libraries and schools. Known widely for its strength in business and economics, general reference, humanities, social sciences, and STM content, the company develops premium databases comprising periodicals, newspapers, dissertations, out-of-print books, and other scholarly information from more than 8,500 publishers worldwide. Users access the information through the ProQuest® Web-based online information system, Chadwyck-HealeyTM electronic and microform resources, UMI® microform and print reference products, eLibrary® and SIRS® educational resources, and XanEdu® online faculty and student resources. For more information about ProQuest Information and Learning, visit www.il.proquest.com.
ProQuest Information and Learning is a business unit of ProQuest Company (www.proquestcompany.com), which was recently named one of the 100 fastest growing technology companies in the United States by Business 2.0.
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