Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Improved Access to Education Literature with ProQuest Education Journals

As part of its subscription to ProQuest Central, the Cheng Library is now offering the specialized database ProQuest Education Journals. The database provides indexing to over 820 periodical titles in education, including over 630 scholarly journals, 120 trade publications, and over 50 magazines. Citations and abstracts are available back to 1971 for several titles, and full-text access is available for over 650 titles, with current full-text content provided for over 460 of these. Over 110 of the full-text titles in ProQuest Education Journals are unique to the database. A complete title list is available.

ProQuest Education Journals covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

Please contact Richard Kearney (973-720-2165 / kearneyr@wpunj.edu) if you have any questions about ProQuest Education Journals.

Improved Access to Computing Literature with ProQuest Computing

As part of its subscription to ProQuest Central, the Cheng Library is now offering the specialized database ProQuest Computing. The database provides indexing to over 500 periodical titles, including over 250 trade publications, over 180 scholarly journals, and over 50 magazines. Citations and abstracts are available back to 1971 for several titles, and full-text access is available for over 400 titles, with current full-text content provided for over 200 of these. A complete title list is available.

The database includes product reviews, database design and management, software, hardware, e-commerce, Web site development, intranets and extranets, and technology management. Topics covered in the database include artificial intelligence, games, graphics, networks, programming, security, systems, management, data processing, hardware, information science and information theory, and software.

Please contact Richard Kearney (973-720-2165 / kearneyr@wpunj.edu) if you have any questions about ProQuest Computing.