Proquest Central

access to database from BUT

• direct access ProQuest Central
• direct access ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global

remote access

• access via EZproxy

producer:
ProQuest LLC.

characteristics:
ProQuest Central is a multidiscipline database containing most of the ProQuest production being currently among the world’s largest full-text databases. The ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (PQDT) ™ database is the world's most comprehensive curated collection of multi-disciplinary dissertations and theses from around the world.

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Building on ProQuest 5000 International, ProQuest Central is a "mega-database" linking over 25 most popular databases of the ProQuest production accessed on a uniform platform of the same name plus specialized databases. It provides information for over 160 disciplines including business and economics, technology, medicine and health, literature and linguistic, society a culture, art and history. ProQuest Central contains more than 24 000 journals including 18 000 full-text ones.

• list of full-text titles available
• list of Proquest Central sub-databases

PQDT Global is offering over 5 million citations with coverage from year 1637 and 3 million full-text works from from over 4,100 institutions from more than 60 countries.

Currently, PQDT Global is used by all kinds of researchers from the undergraduate student, graduate student, to the faculty researcher. The multi-disciplinary collection includes Engineering, Business, Medical Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, and more. Full text historical research dating back to 1743 alongside present-day research. The platform also contains Citation Connections that provide recommendations for other relevant sources.

manuals:

• ProQuest platform training (Youtube)
• ProQuest platform guides
• PQDT Global (Youtube)
• PQDT Global Searching tips (ppt presentation)

availability:

further information:

• terms of use
• for further information, please write to eiz@lib.vutbr.cz

access:

PQDT Global: The database subscription for 2024 was paid from the financial resources of the BUT.

ProQuest Central: Access to the resource has been provided through the CzechELib - National centre for electronic information resources since 2018.
Access for the period 2013-2017 funded by the project STMFull: plnotextové databáze pro výzkum a vývoj, registrační číslo: CZ.1.05/3.2.00/12.0232.