22 October 2019
ProQuest has announced the launch of ProQuest One Literature, a literature collection with a wealth of additional multi-media, multi-format resources. The product focuses on diversity, with a large collection of works by authors who have been marginalised throughout history.
ProQuest One Literature includes:
- multi-format resources, including literary criticism citations, dissertations, e-books, videos and full-text journals
- primary texts written by authors from more than 65 nations, including the ProQuest Black Writing Collection and World Literature Collection
- works spanning the canon of traditional Western Literature covering poetry, prose and drama from the eighth century to today
- a discipline-specific approach for literary studies research
- bibliographic citations from the Annual Bibliography of English Language & Literature (ABELL)
The product is available on the ProQuest platform and searchable alongside other ProQuest resources. ProQuest will continue an ongoing collaboration with the literature community to evolve and curate the product.
“There’s a crying need for convenient access to texts representing a range of ethnicities and experiences from around the globe, as well as for tools to critically analyse those texts,” said Nick Okrent, Librarian at the University of Pennsylvania’s Van Pelt Library. “A platform with high-quality search functionality and extensive content – including relevant primary and secondary sources – will go a long way towards meeting this need.”