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Discover news resources that nurture information literacy in ProQuest products. It is designed to drive academic excellence, each solution combines a wide range of content types, including scholarly journals, e-books, videos, dissertations, and more, all accessible through a single, user-friendly platform.

Libraries have a unique platform to support school-wide diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. ProQuest believes in supporting every voice and understands the challenges libraries face in growing DEI collections. Let ProQuest help you meet the needs of your institution by ensuring the representation of diverse users and reflecting every voice, regardless of race, gender, physical ability, age or belief.
ProQuest expertly curated collections offer authentic, diverse perspectives across books, video, scholarly journals, primary sources and more. They are developed for teaching and learning success across the curriculum.

Students, educators, librarians and administrators in more than 80 countries rely on ProQuest for advantages that the open web simply cannot match: Age-appropriate content that covers core curriculum; High quality databases to support classroom instruction; interactive media that attracts student attention.

Solutions for your students:

  • Schools & Educators Complete™ - A comprehensive K-12 e-book subscription with a wealth of content for both students and educators

    This comprehensive-yet-affordable subscription offers anytime, anywhere access to titles that support teaching and learning for teachers. For students, Students and Educators Complete includes content on history, art, science, music, math, computers, literature, writing and religion. Teachers benefit from titles on common core, classroom management, curriculum planning, educational technology, tests and measurements, child development, psychology and disabilities, and more.

    Schools and Educators Complete is available through E-book Central, a SIIA CODiE finalist for Best Scholarly Research Information Solution. E-book Central offers DRM-free chapter downloads, research tools, advanced patron analytics, and much more.

    They continue to sign new publishers such as Rosen Publishing, Gareth Stevens Inc., Greenhaven Publishing, Enslow Publishing, Cavendish Square Publishing, and Cherry Lake Press who join ProQuest’s long-standing partners like Solution Tree, Mason Crest, Stenhouse Publishers, and ABDO.

  • eLibrary® simplifies the research process

    eLibrary® helps simplify the research process and empowers novice researchers to more easily and efficiently choose their research topic and find authoritative information to support their research claim. It delivers one of the largest collections of periodical and digital media content editorially selected to support novice researchers. Presented on the award-winning ProQuest platform, eLibrary offers two methods of access: a custom Guided Research application, and as part of the unified platform, assuring fit-for-purpose use. The responsively-designed user interface offers access on any device at any time. Users can cross-search e-Library with other ProQuest databases, improving your library’s return-on-investment.

    More than 11,000 editor-created Research Topics pages deliver essential elements on a vast array of people, places, historical events and eras, literary genres, current events, broad curricular themes and much more. Editor’s Picks and Trending Topics make it easier to explore appropriate subject matter. Researchers can access primary and scholarly sources, and all content is in 100% full text. More than 1,700+ magazines, newspapers, transcripts and digitized reference book content, images, maps, websites, videos and interactive simulations, are all expertly curated by ProQuest editors.

    Intuitive user interface: Clear, highly visual and easy-to-navigate; helps guide users to their research topic and supporting evidence.

    Workflow integration: Email documents, cross-search with other ProQuest resources, connect and share with Google Drive and Google Classroom, export citations.

    Media-rich content: High-quality images, streaming video clips, interactive graphics and online content that demonstrate concepts through seeing and doing.

    Usability and differentiated learning: Support all users with Lexile reading levels, text-to-speech, language translation, and educational standards alignment, which make it easier for students from a variety of skill levels to research a topic successfully.

    Access and sharing: To facilitate easy product access and document sharing, includes integrations with Clever, Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard and NoodleTools.

  • SIRS Discoverer is where research starts

    SIRS® Discoverer™ is a multidisciplinary database specifically designed for upper elementary and middle school learners, researchers, and educators covering curriculum areas including history, health, language arts, math, science, social studies, and technology.

    All newspaper, magazine, and reference book content are 100% full text, editorially-selected and indexed from over 2,200 reliable, high-quality global sources, including 400 full-text nonfiction books and ~300 full-text book chapters from publishers such as Britannica, World Book, Rosen Publishing Group, Enslow and Reference Point Press. Individual chapter access aids in easy discovery of individual topics for young learners.

    SIRS Discoverer features easy access to the most-used content and features, logical subject tree hierarchy, age-appropriate search and filter capabilities, as well as streamlined results and article pages to help young learners connect with and comprehend content. User-friendly advanced search features enable young learners, and the educators who support them, to find exactly what they need by limiting any search by source type and offering the ability to filter by Lexile range.

    All content is integrated with Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive and Google Classroom, and includes text-to-speech capability, a citation generator and citation export functions to seamlessly fit into educator and student workflows.

     

    Use SIRS Discoverer to develop activities and lessons that support classroom teaching and help students learn:

    Critical Thinking Skills: Students develop skills with 85+ age-appropriate, editorially-maintained “Controversial Issues.” Popular topics include: School Uniforms, Homework, and Animal Experimentation.

    Reading Fluency: Hundreds of visually appealing, downloadable nonfiction books to read on any device, from popular publishers such as Weekly Reader and Biography for Beginners, featuring beautiful page-image layout and content to engage young readers.

    Research Skills: Learning basic research skills is fun for students exploring a collection of more than 330 animal facts. Information can be used to create a poster, tri-fold brochure, flip board, or pyramid display to showcase learning outcomes.

    Biographies: ProQuest editors provide current, age-appropriate articles and images for the most studied women and men in world history and contemporary society. Features include a timeline of events in the person’s life, key facts, and links to more articles.

  • CultureGrams® is a leading reference resource for reliable cultural information on the countries of the world.

    It’s more important than ever to educate students about the world around them, and for college students and businesspeople to stay up to date. Diverse communities, well-travelled patrons and major global events have expanded each of our personal “world views” and increased our need for understanding a wide array of cultures.

    No matter the user or their need, CultureGrams goes beyond basic facts and figures with local perspectives on more than 200 countries and territories, detailing daily life and culture, including history, customs and lifestyles. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, each concise, reliable and up-to-date report is written and reviewed by local experts, providing users with unique, intimate cultural details from a real insider’s perspective.

    World Edition contains primary-source reports on 209 countries and territories—including every United Nations member state—focusing on 25 cultural categories, including language, personal appearance, greetings, visiting, family, life cycle and more.

    States and Provinces Editions feature colourful, easy-to-read reports that describe the diversity and history of each U.S. state, the District of Columbia and all 13 provinces of Canada. Each report includes maps, flags and symbols, as well as sections on history, economy, geography, population, indigenous peoples and recipes.

    Kids Edition teaches upper-elementary- and middle school-age children more about the world around them. Each report contains images, historical timelines and fun facts, along with sections on history, population, “life as a kid,” games and sports, education and more.

    Exclusive features include video clips and slideshows, a worldwide photo gallery, interviews with adults and children and a unique recipe collection with five local recipes for each country. Plus, infographics, create-your-own data tables and charts help put dozens of facts into perspective. Generate citations on the fly, play Text-to-Speech audio on demand or link text to Google Drive or Classroom with the click of a mouse.

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