January 20, 2021, by Sarah

Proquest – temporary additional online resources

In addition to the vast range of online resources that we already provide access to via NUsearch, during the first lockdown some publishers offered extended or additional access to their content. Proquest have kindly opened up additional primary source material. Resources include some of the largest periodical, newspaper and government documents collections available and are free to access until 31^st July 2021.

These resources provide unique insight into disciplines such as History (UK, US and World History), Humanities and Sciences and gives access to first-hand materials across topics such as History, Politics and International Relations, Civil Rights, American and Canadian Studies, Literature, Popular Culture, Gender Studies and more.

What are the collections?

The Primary Source collections complement some of our existing resources from ProQuest (including Alexander Street and Chadwyck-Healey collections). Below is just a selection of the collection temporarily available. You can access them via NUsearch.

We’ve also included a full list of all the collections at the end of this blog post.

• African Diaspora: Cultural, Social and Political History
• Border and Migration Studies Online
• Colonial State Papers‎ (1574 – 1757)
• Early European Books: Collections 5 – 16
• Environmental Issues Online
• History Vault (modules highlight)
  • American Politics in the Early Cold War-Truman and Eisenhower Administrations 1945-1961
  • Black Freedom Struggle
  • NAACP Papers
  • Nazi Looted Art and Assets: Records on the Post-World War II Restitution Process, 1942-1998
  • Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency Records, 1853-1999
  • Revolutionary War and Early America: Collections from the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1721-1860
  • Socialist Party of America Papers, 1897-1976
• Human Rights Studies Online
• LGBT Magazine Archive
• LGBT Thought and Culture
• Periodicals Archive Online‎: Collections 1 – 10
• Religious Magazine Archive‎ (1845 – 2015)
• Security Issues Online
• Twentieth Century Religious Thought
• Women and Social Movements

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All of the Proquest primary source collections which are available until 31^st July 2021:

ProQuest Platform Individual Databases

• American Periodicals (includes: American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) and American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries)
• Art and Architecture Archive‎
• British Periodicals‎ Collections III and IV
• The Cecil Papers‎
• Colonial State Papers‎ (1574 – 1757)
• Country Life Archive‎ (1897 – 2005)
• Digital National Security Archive‎
• Documents on British Policy Overseas‎ (1898 – 1990)
• Early European Books
• The Harper’s Bazaar Archive‎ (1867 – current)
• LGBT Magazine Archive
• Periodicals Archive Online‎
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931 – 2003)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Afro-American (1893 – 1988)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chicago Defender (1909 – 1975)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspaper Collection (1832 – 1953)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Cleveland Call & Post (1934 – 1991)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Los Angeles Sentinel‎ (1934 – 2005)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Michigan Chronicle
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News (1922 – 1993)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916 – 2003)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Philadelphia Tribune (1912 – 2001)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Pittsburgh Courier (1911 – 2002)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: South China Morning Post‎ (1903 – 2000)
• Religious Magazine Archive‎ (1845 – 2015)

Proquest Government Databases

• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 21st Century (Module 1 2004/05 – 2009-10)
• House of Lords Parliamentary Papers
• Public Petitions to Parliament
• History Vault (includes multiple subcollections in broad subject areas like Civil Rights; Southern Life, Slavery, and the Civil War; American Indians and the American West; American Politics and Society; International Relations and Military Conflicts; Women’s Studies; and Workers and Labor Unions)

Chadwyck-Healey

• Black Abolitionist Papers
• Black Studies Center (includes: The Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience; Index to Black Periodicals Full Text; Black Literature Index; Chicago Defender (Historical Newspaper), 1912-1975)

Alexander Street Press

• African Diaspora: Cultural, Social and Political History
• American Film Scripts Online, Volumes I and II
• Black Drama: Third Edition
• Black Thought and Culture
• Border and Migration Studies Online
• Engineering Case Studies Online
• Environmental Issues Online
• Human Rights Studies Online: Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, and Conflict Resolution [HURI-V1])
• LGBT Thought and Culture
• Mass Incarceration and Prison Studies
• Revolution and Protest Online
• Royal Shakespeare Company Collection
• Security Issues Online
• Twentieth Century Religious Thought
• Women and Social Movements, International
• Women and Social Movements, Modern Empires Since 1820
• Women and Social Movements in the U.S. – Scholar’s Edition

History Vault Module Titles

• African American Police League Records 1961-1988
• American Indians and the American West, 1809-1971
• American Politics and Society from Kennedy to Watergate
• American Politics in the Early Cold War—Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, 1945-1961
• Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records
• Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records, Supplement
• Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1
• Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century, Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2
• Confederate Military Manuscripts and Records of Union Generals and the Union Army
• Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960-1969, Africa and the Middle East
• Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960-1969, Asia
• Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960-1969, Europe and Latin America
• Creation of Israel: British Foreign Office Correspondence on Palestine and Transjordan, 1940-1948
• FBI Confidential Files and Radical Politics in the U.S., 1945-1972
• Immigration: Records of the INS, 1880-1930
• Labor Unions in the U.S., 1862-1974: Knights of Labor, AFL, CIO, and AFL-CIO
• Law and Society since the Civil War: American Legal Manuscripts from the Harvard Law School Library
• Margaret Sanger Papers: Smith College Collections and Collected Documents
• NAACP Papers: Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files
• NAACP Papers: Branch Department, Branch Files and Youth Department Files
• NAACP Papers: Special Subjects
• NAACP Papers: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns—Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces
• NAACP Papers: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns–Legal Department Files
• NAACP Papers: The NAACP’s Major Campaigns—Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses
• Nazi Looted Art and Assets: Records on the Post-World War II Restitution Process, 1942-199
• New Deal and World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Office Files and Records of Federal Agencies
• Office of Strategic Services (OSS)-State Department Intelligence and Research Reports, 1941-1961
• Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency Records, 1853-1999
• Progressive Era: Robert M. La Follette Papers
• Progressive Era: Reform, Regulation and Rights
• Progressive Era: Voices of Reform, 1875-1945
• Reconstruction and Military Government after the Civil War
• Records of the Children’s Bureau, 1912-1969
• Revolutionary War and Early America: Collections from the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1721-1860
• Slavery and the Law
• Slavery in Antebellum Southern Industries
• Socialist Party of America Papers, 1897-1976
• Southern Life and African American History, 1775–1915, Plantations Records, Part 1
• Southern Life and African American History, 1775–1915, Plantations Records, Part 2
• Struggle for Women’s Rights: Organizational Records, 1880-1990
• Students for a Democratic Society, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement
• Thomas A. Edison Papers
• U.S. Diplomatic Post Records, 1914-1945
• U.S. Military Intelligence Reports, 1911-1944
• Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960–1975
• Women at Work during World War II: Rosie the Riveter and the Women’s Army Corps
• Women’s Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights
• Workers, Labor Unions, and the American Left in the 20th Century: Federal Records
• World War I: British Foreign Office Political Correspondence
• World War I: Records of the American Expeditionary Forces, and Diplomacy in the World War I Era
• World War II: U.S. Documents on Planning, Operations, Intelligence, Axis War Crimes, and Refugees

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