Planned Downtime: ProQuest Databases

Access to multiple ProQuest resources will unavailable on Sunday 29th January 2017, from 3am until 11am, while ProQuest perform scheduled maintenance.

This will affect the following resources:

• Ancestry
• British Periodicals
• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
• Ebrary
• Hospital Premium Collection:
       Family Health Database
       Health & Medical Collection
       Health Management Database
       Nursing & Allied Health Database
       Psychology Database
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
• The John Johnson Collection
• Literature Online (incl individual modules)
• Periodicals Archive Online‎
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland‎
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global‎
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Afro-American‎  
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian and The Observer‎  
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Irish Times and The Weekly Irish Times‎
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News‎
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index‎
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Times of India‎  
• RefWorks‎  
• The Vogue Archive

On attempting to access these products during the downtime, you will be re-directed to a web page explaining the scheduled maintenance.
ProQuest thank you for your patience, and apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Planned Downtime: ProQuest Databases

ProQuest will be performing scheduled maintenance on Sunday 21st August, from 3am until 11am.

This will affect access to multiple databases, including:

• Ancestry
• British Periodicals
• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
• Ebrary
• Hospital Premium Collection:
Family Health Database information
Health & Medical Collection information
Health Management Database information
Nursing & Allied Health Database information
Psychology Database
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
• The John Johnson Collection
• Literature Online (incl individual modules)
• Periodicals Archive Online‎
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland‎
• ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global‎
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Afro-American‎  
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian and The Observer‎   
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Irish Times and The Weekly Irish Times‎
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News‎
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index‎
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Times of India‎  
• RefWorks‎  
• The Vogue Archive

On attempting to access these products during the downtime, you will be re-directed to a web page explaining the scheduled maintenance.

ProQuest thank you for your patience, and apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Planned Downtime: ProQuest Resources

From 3am to 11am on Sunday 13th March 2016, ProQuest will be performing scheduled maintenance to it's systems infrastructure.
During this time, access to the ProQuest resources listed below will not be available:

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
ebrary eBooks
Periodicals Archive Online
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
ProQuest Hospital Collection
British Periodicals Collection
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Afro-American
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian and The Observer
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Irish Times and The Weekly Irish Times
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Times of India
RefWorks
Vogue Archive

On accessing any of the resources, you will be re-directed to a webpage explaining the scheduled maintenance.

ProQuest thank you for your patience, and apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Planned Downtime: All Proquest Resources

From 3am to 11am on January 17th 2016, ProQuest will be upgrading its systems infrastructure to improve performance, security, and overall reliability of the ProQuest databases.
During this time, access to the ProQuest (incl Chadwyck-Healey) resources listed below will not be available:

Early English Books Online (EEBO)
ebrary eBooks
House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
John Johnson Collection
Literature Online (all modules; see below*)
Periodicals Archive Online
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
ProQuest Hospital Collection
British Periodicals Collection
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Baltimore Afro-American
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian and The Observer
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Irish Times and The Weekly Irish Times
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Amsterdam News
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Times of India
RefWorks
Vogue Archive

On accessing any of the resources, you will be re-directed to a webpage explaining the scheduled maintenance.

ProQuest thank you for your patience, and apologize for any inconvenience caused.

*
Literature Online Modules:
African American Poetry
American Drama 1714-1915
American Poetry
Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature
Bibliography of American Literature
Canadian Poetry
Early American Fiction 1789-1850
Early American Fiction 1789-1875
Early English Prose Fiction
Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
English Drama
English Poetry
English Poetry, Second Edition
King James Bible
Nineteenth-Century Fiction
The Faber Poetry Library
Twentieth-Century African American Poetry
Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Twentieth-Century English Poetry
Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged

Resource of the Week: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

What is it?

Essentially two databases, ProQuest Dissertations &Theses (PQDT)

& ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: UK & Ireland is the most comprehensive available record of doctoral theses from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The collection offers the most comprehensive available listing of theses, with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in the United Kingdom and Ireland, since 1716

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997.

Why use it?

• Find what research has been done in your area (historical)
• See what the current research topics are in your area – find gaps to exploit or case studies to explore further
• Get ideas for your dissertation
• Get ideas on layout
• Get ideas on how to construct an abstract
• Get the full text of a dissertation relevant to your research

Even just looking at the contents pages can spark ideas and provide direction for your research.

An example search on ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) using the search terms Shakespeare AND women.

Periodicals Archive Online now available

JISC have provided a national licence for the backfiles of 80 journals from their first volume up to and including 1995 (usually) on the Periodicals Archive Online platform. Highlights include:

Africa Report
British Journal of Psychology
Foreign Affairs
History Today
IMF Staff Papers
Journal of General Psychology
Journal of Psychology
Middle East Journal
Philosophy Today
Victorian Poetry

See the full list of titles.

You will find Periodicals Archive Online:

- in our catalogue
- via our Databases page
- as one of the Interdisciplinary Collections on our Electronic Journal Collections page

The individual journals within Periodicals Archive Online now appear in our searchable e-journals list powered by SFX and will appear in the library catalogue soon.

TRIAL: Two Shakespeare resources

We have a trial of ProQuest's Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare until 31st October. To access this trial, just use the link above - access to it is routed via EZproxy for off-campus access.

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare contains eleven major editions from the First Folio of 1623 to the Cambridge edition of 1863–66, twenty-eight separate contemporary printings of individual plays and poems, selected apocrypha and related works. In addition it contains more than one hundred adaptations, sequels and burlesques from the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including the whole of Bell's Acting Edition of Shakespeare's Plays (1774).

We also have a trial of Cengage Gale's The Shakespeare Collection until 15th October. To access this trial, go to Gale's trials site and login with the trial username and password.

For more information about The Shakespeare Collection see the fact sheet.

After trying these collections please leave your comments below. You can choose the anonymous option to comment without needing to have a Blogger account, but it helps if you include your name in your feedback so that we can follow up on comments.

Please note that budgets are limited and it may not be possible to subscribe either of these products for some time.