Faculty have already begun responding positively to the newly available ProQuest Digital Collections, highlighting their value for both research and teaching. The ProQuest Digital Collections, which offer discipline-aligned, multiformat content and vast primary sources spanning six centuries, serve researchers and students of all levels. The subscription includes many rare and exclusive resources, encompassing over 160 million primary source items.

One faculty member noted prior extensive use of related collections and welcomed expanded access through the Libraries’ new subscriptions, writing that they had used HistoryVault’s labor union and NAACP records, as well as Black history newspapers, “extensively—both in my own research and in my classes,” and had been preparing to recommend that the library acquire access before learning the collections were already available.

Another faculty member, Rabia Gregory, expressed strong enthusiasm for the new offerings, writing, “This is amazing…. I am super excited to have the Early Modern Collection, which amazingly gets us Early European Books—something I have wanted for a very long time. Thank you!”

Library faculty and staff have also reported receiving “very positive faculty feedback” about the new resources, including collections that replace microfilm access and expand existing digital holdings, as well as entirely new primary source collections now available to the Mizzou community.

You may access the ProQuest Digital Collections databases from the Mizzou Libraries A-Z Databases List. Click here for more information and a complete list of database titles.