Oxford students and researchers now have access to the complete ProQuest Digital Collections—a major multidisciplinary resource bringing together more than 160 million items across hundreds of databases.

The collections span more than six centuries and include scholarly journals and magazines, digitised archives and manuscripts, historical texts, government publications, audiovisual material and music scores. Particularly rich areas include Art, Black Studies, English Literature, Anthropology & Ethnology, Women’s Studies, Popular Culture, Performing Arts and Music, alongside extensive material for global and international studies.

The scale and diversity of these collections offer new opportunities for research and teaching across the Humanities and Social Sciences. They provide access to voices, histories and cultural perspectives that have often been underrepresented in traditional collections, while enabling researchers and students to explore subjects across disciplinary boundaries.

This significant expansion of Oxford’s digital collections will support established areas of teaching and research as well as emerging and interdisciplinary fields.

Below are some key highlight for American Studies.

ProQuest One History

• History Vault – History Vault provides access to millions of primary source, cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents on the most widely studied topics in 19th and 20th-century American history. The collection is organised around 9 subject areas, with a total of 77 individual databases. Highlights include key African American Civil Rights organisation records (CORE, SNCC, NAACP and SCLC), as well as major social movements covering the Progressive Era, women’s suffrage, labor movements and anti-Vietnam war protest movements. Modern US Government records and slavery plantation records are also included.
• US History Collections – The U.S. History Collection brings together a selection of curated sets from Alexander Street made of primary sources. Topics covered include Native American History, American Civil War letters and diaries, and materials from the Gilded Age. This collection also includes American History in Video, a video collection that includes documentaries and newsreels with coverage from the 1890s to the 2000s.

ProQuest One Global Studies and International Relations

The above collection expands our current collections from the Digital National Security Archive (DNSA), as well as providing the following collections:

• The Sixties: Primary Sources and Personal Narratives – brings the 1960s alive through diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary. Includes 125,000 pages of text and 50 hours of video.
• Alt-Press Watch – includes full-text newspapers and magazines from alternative, independent presses.
• Communist, Leftist, Socialist and Radical newspapers and periodical archival collections.
• Secondary source collections from a wide range of topics, including Aging, Immigration, Disability, Environmental Studies, Food Studies, Revolution and Protest.

ProQuest One Black Studies

Alongside access to the African American focused databases from History Vault, ProQuest One Black Studies also includes the following:

• Ten key African American Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World (1931–2010); Baltimore Afro-American (1893–2010); Chicago Defender (1910–2010); Cleveland Call and Post (1934–2010); Los Angeles Sentinel (1934–2010); Michigan Chronicle (1936–2010); New York Amsterdam News (1922–2010); Norfolk Journal and Guide (1916–2010); Philadelphia Tribune (1912–2010); Pittsburgh Courier (1911–2010) [Note: some titles we already have some access to, but the above extends the date coverage]
• Periodicals and pamphlets related to Slavery
• Supreme court cases related to civil rights and race, 1830-present.
• Commission on Minority Business Development
• Secondary and reference resources such as the Black Literature Index
• Videos from Black Studies in Video and selected materials from the African Diaspora Collections.

ProQuest One Women’s Studies

This database brings together ProQuest’s award-winning Women’s Studies, Men’s and Masculinity Studies, and LGBTQ+ Studies content into one destination for research, teaching, and learning purposes. This database combines primary and secondary sources, including a wealth of historical magazines and periodicals, faculty-curated collections from Women and Social Movements and Queer Pasts, archival documents and collections, key government materials, videos, scholarly journals, and essays by top scholars in Gender Studies.

Key highlights include Manuscript Women’s Letters and Diaries, as well as Women and Social Movements in Modern Empires Since 1920, which complements our collections Women and Social Movements, International and Women and Social Movements in the United States.

ProQuest One Entertainment & Popular Culture

• Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family -provides a window into American social history by bringing together instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette. When complete, the collection will contain 150,000 pages of fully searchable handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books. 
• Magazine Archives for the Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, Daily Variety and Archie Comics.
• Archival magazine collections focused on the Entertainment Industry, Health & Fitness, Youth & Popular Culture, Children’s Magazines and underground and independent comics and graphic novels.
• Popular Culture Studies in Video – covering a wide range of popular culture topics.