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An all-in-one ebook platform for research, teaching and learning.	A multimedia resource that supports research in all major subject areas.	The most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world.

1.   Finding and Sharing Subject Focused Ebooks
   
   This session covers using Ebook Central to create and share online course reading lists, subject or topic focused ebook collections, and new title lists. (Duration: 4 minutes)
    
2. Using the online reader in Ebook Central
   
   This session will teach you how to use Ebook Central's online reader functionalities such as searching through the book, annotating, printing, downloading and chapter downloading. It will detail the differences between the EPUB reader and the PDF reader. (Duration: 6 minutes)
    
3. Place Holds on Ebook Central 
   
   This session covers placing a hold for a book in use, finding holds that you placed, and accessing your hold when it becomes available. (Duration: 2 minutes)

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses on humanities and social sciences. 

ProQuest Entrepreneurship provides access to key scholarship, tools, and resources to help entrepreneurs and students navigate the complex world of small business. It contains a diverse collection of resources including journals, industry reports, video clips, “how to” books, templated forms, business plan samples, and more from top publishers.
 

Content types

• Video Clips - watch and listen to entrepreneurs as they give firsthand accounts of their business experiences.
   
• Start-Up Plans, Templates and Forms - give users an A to Z approach to entrepreneurship as steps are laid out from concept through management. These tools also guide users through various processes and can serve as a "checklist" of items needed to secure financing.
   
• Journal Content - top publications relating to the practice of entrepreneurship are provided in the form of full journal runs plus selected articles.
   
• Business Cases - business cases allow professors to build or refresh the courses they teach.
   
• Working Papers - these "full length" versions of the author's work provide cutting-edge insight and information on the latest trends in a variety of subject areas.
   
• Conference Proceedings - conferences are often panel discussions and help promote innovative thought on various topics.
   
• Full Text Dissertations - provide insight into roads already traveled while helping to jumpstart research and exploration for an entire "thought area" through the work of others. 

Subject Coverage

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspaper Collection gain insight into Chinese political and social life from 1832 to 1953 with 12 English-language Chinese historical newspapers. Included are critical perspectives on more than 100 years of modern Chinese history. In addition to the article content, the full-image newspapers offer searchable access to advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and classified ads that illuminate history.
 

Features

• Full access to this authoritative account of Chinese history
  This collection offers coverage of 1832–1953 and provides valuable insight into political and social life of China during this turbulent 120-year period in modern Chinese history. Advertisements, editorials, cartoons, and classified ads are also included in the resource, as they illuminate as much history as the articles.
   
• Insight into multiple perspectives
  You can find a broader view of issues and events by cross searching all of ProQuest’s historical newspapers.
   
• User-friendly support tools to facilitate research
  You can search by more than 20 article types, keyword, date ranges, specific dates, author and more. You can also focus on relevant information quickly with hitterm highlighting and download articles and images in PDF format.

Curriculum Focus:

 

Anthropology	Asian/Chinese/Japan Studies
Colonial Studies	Ethnic Studies
History	Political Science
Sociology

 

Titles included are:

 

North China Herald (1850-1941)	Canton Times (1919-1920)	China Critic (1939-1946)
The China Press (1925-1938)	China Weekly Review (1917-1953)	Chinese Recorder (1868-1940)
Chinese Repository (1832-1851)	Peking Daily News (1914-1917)	Peking Gazette (1915-1917)
Peking Leader (1918-1919)	Shanghai Gazette (1919-1921)	Shanghai Times (1914-1921)

 Literature Online An Introduction
This recorded webinar provides an overview of Literature Online on the ProQuest Platform, the available collections, the content types and the basic and advanced search features. Duration:  33 minutes.

Literature Online is a foundational, focused, and targeted resource for literary programs with full text journals and reference material to help contextualize primary works and authors. This database contains works of poetry, prose and drama from the 8th century to the present day in English language. This is a unique assembly of primary works, re-keyed from first editions or scholarly editions. Literature Online also includes audio and video content through its Poets on Screen and the Shakespeare Audio Plays collection.
 

Features

• Basic Search
  You can also click the buttons for Criticism, Primary texts, Author pages or Reference works to focus your search to a specific content type.
  
   
• Advanced Search
  On Advanced search, you can search all available ProQuest Literature Online content.
  
   
• Author Page
  It includes information about the author - gender, nationality, literary movement and a biography. In many cases there’s a picture of the author.  
  
   
• Literary Movement Page
  It includes an introduction to literary movement, with links to Reference Works
  
   
• Results Page
  The main Results page may contain includes Criticism, Primary texts, Author pages, Reference works, Audio and Video, and Dissertations.  
  
   
• Primary Text Document View
  The Primary text document view contains a Table of Contents and tools for downloading, printing and saving.
  

1. APA PsycArticles
   A comprehensive and essential database of full-text, peer-reviewed articles published by the APA Journals and affiliated journals. Source types include peer-reviewed journals, books and book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, and more.
    
2. APA PsycInfo 
   Provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. All records are indexed using the APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms. Source types include peer-reviewed journals, books and book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, and more.

Subjects

Both APA PsycArticles and APA PsycInfo cover below subjects:

1. Applied psychology
2. Communication systems
3. Developmental psychology
4. Personality 
5. Lifespan
6. Psychological and physical disorders

Features

British Nursing Database is a full-text resource supporting the practice, education, and research for nurses, midwives and healthcare professionals in the U.K. and the greater nursing community. Bibliographic data from the British Nursing Index (BNI) underpins this product to improve the discovery of content. In addition to full-text coverage, the British Nursing Database provides abstracting and indexing for hundreds of titles dating back to 1993.

You have access to:

• British Nursing Index
• British Nursing Index Full Text Journals

Functions

1. Basic Search
   
    
2. Advanced Search
   
    
3. Result page options 
   

Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. It includes the companion file Social Services Abstracts, which provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas. The database includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations as well as citations to book reviews.
 

Features

1. Look Up Lists
   Sociological Abstracts offers five Look ups or browsable indexes, so you can easily find spelling or format variations of, for example, an author's name or a subject name. 
   
   
    
2. Thesaurus
   A thesaurus provides a standard language or set of terms with which to describe a subject area.  Associated term relationships are displayed under each Main Term. These may include a Descriptor Code, Scope Note, History Note, Use For and Use references, Broader Terms and Narrower Terms, and Related Terms. 
   
   
    
      

Subject Coverage

Addiction	Community and mental health services	Family and marriage
Gerontology	Race and ethnicity	Social care
Social policy	Social services	Social structure
Social welfare	Social work	Sociology

 

Publication Coverage

Books	Conference Papers & Proceedings	Dissertations & Theses
Magazines	Other Sources	Reports
Scholarly Journals	Trade Journals	Working Papers

Benefits

• Easily craft more effective and targeted searches
• More effectively review, analyze, and interrogate documents
• Quickly evaluate the usefulness of each document for your research
• Get guidance on next steps like choosing a research topic and understanding important concepts in the document

Functions

1. Key takeaway of the full text document
   Key takeaways are extracted from the document and are intended to help you understand what this document is about in a succinct, easy-to-understand way to quickly determine its relevance for their specific research. It allows you to quickly determine relevance and then guide the next steps in your scholarly journey.
   
    
2. Key concepts in the document
   Important concepts and their explanations are also extracted from the document. This is a list of concepts that are relevant in the context of the document, sorted in the order of importance in relation to the document. With an explanation of the term and why it’s relevant, you can search in one click, propelling deeper research and investigation.
   
    
3. Tailored recommendations
   Research Topics are also generated based on the document. This feature suggests potential topics that you might be interested in to expand your knowledge about the subject or find inspiration on which topic you want to write about.