ProQuest

Academic article archive

ProQuest is a company that provides access to databases of academic journals, newspapers, dissertations, and other research materials.

Libraries subscribe to ProQuest services, giving students and researchers searchable archives of scholarly content: I found the article through ProQuest.

The name combines "pro" (professional) with "quest" (search).

database

dissertations

Extended academic research documents

journals · academic · research · periodicals · abstracts · indexing · archives · ebooks · newspapers · historical

publishing

dissertations

Extended academic research documents

  • ETDScheduled takeoff abbreviation
  • submissionYielding to another's will
  • embargoOfficial prohibition on trade

copyright · binding · microform · preservation · digitization · acquisition · licensing · aggregator · metadata · cataloging

research

sources

Points of origin

evidence · methodology · historiography · genealogy · archives · analysis · scholarship · inquiry · investigation · data

platform

interface

Shared connection point

library · portal · login · authentication · proxy · institutional · remote · browse · filters · results

Opposites
access model

ProQuestopen access

Free public scholarly content

free access · public domain · Google Scholar · Creative Commons · Wikipedia

commercial status

ProQuestLibrary of Congress

U.S. national repository of knowledge

public library

institutional vs. grassroots knowledge sharing

ProQuestsamizdat

Clandestine dissident publishing

Family

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