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ProQuest One Visual Arts & Design (Trial)

News Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 16:15

ProQuest One Visual Arts & Design is an essential resource for the comprehensive study of art, design, architecture, and fashion. It uniquely consolidates rare archives, leading magazine backfiles, scholarly journals, documentary films, and specialist indexes into a single platform, supporting research from historical movements to contemporary practice:

  • Coverage: 11.5+ million items from 1860 to the present
  • 700+ key publications, from scholarly journals to trade magazines
  • Rare archives, primary sources, documentary videos, leading magazine backfiles, and specialist indexes
  • Key Themes Include: Architectural History, Art History, Fashion, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Photography, and Visual Arts

Expiry date: 11 February 2026

ProQuest One Sustainability (Trial)

News Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 16:13

ProQuest One Sustainability offers a comprehensive, transdisciplinary research experience structured around essential frameworks such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the three pillars of sustainability, and the core competencies of sustainability.

Created in collaboration with curriculum experts, faculty, students, continuing education learners, and librarians, this resource brings together the world’s largest and most diverse collection of sustainability-focused materials. Its content spans scholarly journals, case studies, reports, trade publications, magazines, ebooks, and more. All delivered through an interface designed specifically to support sustainability research and learning.

Key features include:

  • Nature Sustainability
  • CABI Cases series of journals
  • 500+ Topic Pages for guided exploration
  • Sustainability Ebook Collection
  • 37,000+ dissertations
  • Abstracting & Indexing content, including AGRICOLA

Expiry date: 11 February 2026

ProQuest One Social Sciences (Trial)

News Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 16:11

ProQuest One Social Sciences provides researchers worldwide with access to high-quality titles across regions, markets, and disciplines. The collection includes journals alongside a wide range of specialist full-text publications such as dissertations, trade publications, and grey literature. Coverage spans key subject areas including anthropology, criminology, economics, international relations, library science, linguistics, political science, public policy, social work, and sociology, making it an essential resource for interdisciplinary inquiry.

The solution also integrates ProQuest’s renowned abstracting and indexing databases, including Sociological Abstracts, valued for their reliability and authority in social sciences research. With more than 7,300 indexed titles and over 22.5 million records, the database supports comprehensive exploration of the social sciences.

Key features include:

  • Journals: Influential titles from leading publishers such as Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press, Emerald, and Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Quality A&I Indexes: Combines trusted abstracting and indexing databases like Sociological Abstracts with full-text content
  • Discipline-Specific Thesauri: Enables precision searching to support literature reviews and systematic research

Expiry date: 11 February 2026

ProQuest One Business (Trial)

News Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 16:08

ProQuest One Business supports student research through the AI-powered ProQuest Research Assistant. It centralizes authoritative, multi-format content, including scholarly journals, market reports, business news, videos, and case studies. The platform is further enhanced by unique discipline-specific tools, including curated topic pages for thousands of global companies and industry codes, along with business-focused thesauri.

Key features include 2,900 full-text scholarly journals, 21,000 videos, 29,000 books, 130 news sources, 30,000 case studies, thousands of reports, 2,500 magazines and trade journals, and 55,000 dissertations. These resources cover essential topics, including Accounting and Tax, Banking, Business Law, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Human Resources, Management, and Marketing.

Key features include:

  • J. P. Morgan Research
  • Entrepreneurship Collection
  • 4,000 company & industry topic pages
  • Business ebook Subscription

Expiry date: 11 February 2026

ProQuest One Psychology (Trial)

News Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 16:06

ProQuest One Psychology is a comprehensive resource designed for teaching, learning, and research in psychology. Its specialised interface provides authoritative content, including scholarly journals, therapy videos, and eBooks, while seamlessly integrating with APA databases and organising resources via curated topic pages.

Key features include 1,100 full-text scholarly journals, 2,500 videos, 1,100 counselling session transcripts, 5,000 books, 1,100 archival materials, 70,000 dissertations, and one million selected articles, covering core topics as follows:

  • Anxiety
  • Cognition
  • Counselling
  • Depression
  • Historical Experiments
  • Personality
  • Research Concepts
  • Tests and Measures
  • Therapeutic Approaches

Expiry date: 11 February 2026

ProQuest One Applied & Life Sciences (Trial)

News Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 16:04

A comprehensive collection of full-text resources, including scholarly journals and technical reports, spans subjects such as biological sciences, engineering, materials science, and computer science.

Key features comprise 4,900 scholarly journals, 140,000 dissertations, 1,500 trade journals and magazines, 300,000 reports, 200,000 conference papers, and 2.7 million preprints. Its key topics encompass AI and Computer Science, Animal Science, Biotechnology, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, Materials Science, Mathematics, and Robotics.

Expiry date: 11 February 2026

Inspec Analytics (Trial)

News Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 09:32

Inspec Analytics is a dynamic research intelligence tool based on the Inspec database to help research professionals explore beyond the literature in Inspec to uncover global trends in physics, engineering, and technology research. Additional collaboration features and citation data in Inspec Analytics Plus enable users to deepen insights into the impact of global research with citation metrics.

Expiry date: 28 February 2026

Engineering Village AI (Trial)

News Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 08:58

Engineering Village (EV) AI is an intelligent, generative AI tool integrated directly into the Engineering Village platform. Built in collaboration with the engineering community and powered by the trusted Compendex database, it transforms research workflows. EV AI helps students and professionals move beyond simple searches to efficiently navigate complex, interdisciplinary content, explore unfamiliar topics, and synthesize verified insights. With features like "go deeper" prompts, targeted summaries, and trend analysis, it accelerates the journey from discovery to actionable understanding.

Expiry date: 4 February 2026

Engineering Village Patents Plus (Trial)

News Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 08:55

Engineering Village (EV) Patents Plus offers expanded coverage of over 120 million patents from patent authorities including United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), European Patent Office (EPO), Japanese Patent Office (JPO), China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA), UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO), German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA). The database comprises both patent applications and granted patents, with search functionalities across US, CPC, and IPC classifications.

Expiry date: 4 February 2026

Engineering Village Compendex (Trial)

News Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 08:53

Engineering Village (EV) Compendex is an engineering-focused database where researchers can access interdisciplinary scholarly and technical literature, including journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, standards, books, and recently preprints. Content for Compendex comes from thousands of publishers worldwide, including major engineering societies such as IEEE, ASME, SAE, and ACM. It offers a unified research perspective across 190 engineering disciplines.

Expiry date: 4 February 2026

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