Through an innovative partnership, ProQuest and the Center for Research Libraries (CRL), a consortium of North American universities, colleges and independent research libraries, is offering full-color, digital access to a broad range of American periodicals. American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries contains full text and full-color scans of journal content that can be cross-searched with American Periodicals Series Online, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, and other leading historical collections from ProQuest. Upon completion, American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries will contain nearly three million pages.

ProQuest’s newest periodicals research collection is a full-text resource that spans the 19th century through the dawn of the 20th century. The collection contains special interest and general magazines, labor and trade publications, scientific and literary journals, and photographic periodicals, as well as other historically significant titles. Key titles include:

• American Annual of Photography
• The Craftsman
• Electrical Age
• Hampton’s Magazine
• House & Garden
• The Labor Journal
• The Occident
• American Jewish Advocate
• Popular Science
• Woman’s Protest Against Woman Suffrage

Because the database contains digitized images of periodical pages, researchers can see all of the original typography, drawings, graphic elements, and article layouts exactly as they were originally published.

Cross search American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries and ProQuest Historical Newspapers™!

Customers of American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries and any or all of the ProQuest Historical Newspapers can expand their research coverage by seamlessly searching across American magazines and journals and these important newspapers of record.

Accessing American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries

The database is available on the Web through ProQuest®, a premier information access and retrieval system. In addition to the standard ProQuest interface, American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries is available in a customized interface that provides more immediate access to the historical content, plus information on all of periodicals in the collection.

American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries is suitable for all types of researchers, whether online novices or information professionals. The complete ASCII text in the American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries (including tables of contents) is searchable by keywords and Boolean operators. Articles are linked to the corresponding page images, which are downloadable in Adobe® PDF.

The ProQuest interface is OpenURL-compliant for both inbound and outbound linking. This capability allows users to access articles or publications from their other electronic resources. Create links to a variety of resources including:

• E-Journals
• Document delivery services
• Link resolvers
• Your library’s OPAC
• A to Z list providers such as Serials Solutions

Free MARC records are available.