ProQuest, part of Cambridge Information Group, and JISC Collections have agreed to make a collection of 80 journals from ProQuest's Periodicals Archive Online available to the UK's academic HE and FE communities. The move is part of JISC Collections' ongoing commitment to widening access to essential research material that many institutions simply would not ordinarily be able to afford.
The collection, spanning more than 100 years of content, will be available digitally in full archival format in such subject areas as the arts, business, history, linguistics, literature, philosophy, politics, psychology and the social sciences. The collection will be accessible via ProQuest's Periodicals Archive Online platform, which uses a search engine known for its powerful, accurate searching. The 288,006 articles contained in the collection encompass the full backfile of each journal, with content dating from 1891 through 2000.
The content is a subset of Periodicals Archive Online, a major online resource for the full runs of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Periodicals Archive Online covers a wide range of subjects in the arts, humanities and social sciences - with 37 different defined subject areas (from Ancient Civilisations to Sociology, by way of Business, Economics, History, Literature, Psychology, Theology and others). The complete database is strongly international with the inclusion of many non-English-language titles.
