Past News & Events

ProQuest One Health & Nursing (Trial)

News Thursday, January 15, 2026 - 16:18

ProQuest One Health & Nursing is a comprehensive digital resource tailored for the academic and professional healthcare community. It brings together global scholarly literature, authoritative clinical references, and practical training materials within a single, integrated platform. The resource empowers students, educators, researchers, and practitioners to investigate emerging topics, conduct rigorous research, and seamlessly connect theoretical knowledge with clinical practice.

It offers multi-format contents with below highlights:

  1. Scholarly Journals: 2,900 journals including 1,700 in active full text
  2. Nursing Skills Videos: A growing collection of regularly updated demonstration and training videos
  3. Comprehensive Source for Grey Literature: Reports, preprints, and other types of non-traditional research for more in-depth literature reviews
  4. 700 Trade Journals & Magazines: Covering the latest news from all areas in the discipline
  5. 65k Dissertations & Theses

Expiry date: 11 February 2026

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (Trial)

News Thursday, January 15, 2026 - 16:14

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global offers a truly international perspective on academic research, providing access to over six million records, including four million full-text documents. From North America and Europe to Asia and beyond, it delivers a comprehensive view of the global scholarly landscape.

Note: The Library has subscribed to the subset A: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection (A&I) and subset B: The Sciences and Engineering Collection (Full text). The subset A: The Humanities and Social Sciences Collection (Full text) is currently under trial.

Expiry date: 11 February 2026

ProQuest One Visual Arts & Design (Trial)

News Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 16:15

ProQuest One Visual Arts & Design is a resource offering a wide-ranging selection of contents in art, design, architecture, and fashion. It consolidates rare materials, leading magazine backfiles, key scholarly journals, documentary videos, and specialist indexes into a single platform. Key themes and topics include Architectural History, Art History, Arts Business/Marketing, Culture & Society, Fashion, Textiles & Dress, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Photography, and Visual Arts. The database contains over 700 key publications and more than 11.5 million full-text items, with a time span from 1860 to the present.

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.

It offers multi-format contents with below highlights:

  1. Scholarly Journals: The latest research from 1,500+ scholarly journals in ongoing full-text, including Nature Sustainability.
  2. Selected Articles: Thousands of articles on sustainability from various disciplines such as politics, business, and current affairs.
  3. Books: A curated collection of 7,500 ebooks from publishers such as Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Emerald.
  4. Essential A&I Databases: Including AGRICOLA, Aquatic Science & Fisheries Abstracts, and Meteorological and Geoastrophysical Abstracts.
  5. Case studies: 40,000 case studies to illustrate theory and promote classroom discussion, featuring CABI Cases.
  6. Over 37,000 dissertations

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 from top publishers such as Springer Nature, Cambridge University Press and Emerald, 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. The solution also integrates ProQuest’s renowned abstracting and indexing databases, including Sociological Abstracts with full-text content, valued for their reliability and authority in social sciences research. The discipline-specific thesauri also enable precision searching to support literature reviews and systematic research. With more than 7,300 indexed titles and over 22.5 million records, the database supports comprehensive exploration of the social sciences.

Expiry date: 11 February 2026

ProQuest One Business (Trial)

News Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 16:08

ProQuest One Business supports students and researchers in building the research skills through a unique business-specific interface. It centralizes authoritative, multi-format content, including scholarly journals, market & industry reports, analyst report, business news, books, videos, and case studies. It also includes unique discipline features such as Topic Pages for 4k global companies and 119 NAICS codes, and business-specific thesauri.

This database includes approximately 2,900 full-text scholarly journals, 21,000 videos, 29,000 books, 130 news sources, 30,000 case studies & business cases, thousands of reports, 2,500 magazines & 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.

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.

This database includes 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 1 million selected articles, covering core topics such as Anxiety, Cognition Counselling, Depression, Historical Experiments, Personality, Research Concepts, Tests and Measures, and Therapeutic Approaches.

Expiry date: 11 February 2026

ProQuest One Applied & Life Sciences (Trial)

News Wednesday, January 14, 2026 - 16:04

ProQuest One Applied & Life Sciences offers a comprehensive collection of full-text resources, including scholarly journals, technical reports and government publications, spans subjects such as biological sciences, engineering, materials science, AI & computer science, animal science, biotechnology, chemistry mathematics, and robotics. This database comprises approximately 4,900 scholarly journals, 140,000 dissertations, 1,500 trade journals & magazines, 300,000 reports, 200,000 conference papers, and 2.7 million preprints.

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

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