ProQuest combines the strengths of two leading information companies, ProQuest Information and Learning and CSA.  When these companies merged in 2007, it was on the basis of their most compelling common value -- a deep and abiding commitment to serving libraries and librarians.   That passion, built on respect for the role of the library to illuminate, educate, and excite its community, no matter its composition, is both ProQuest's foundation and purpose for being.  ProQuest’s mission is to create innovative products and services that are valued by researchers – novice and expert – and the libraries which serve them

ProQuest's vast content pools are available to researchers through libraries of all types and include the world's largest digital newspaper archive; periodical databases comprising the output of more than 9,000 titles and spanning more than 500 years; the preeminent dissertation collection, and various other scholarly collections. Users access the information through the ProQuest® and CSA Illumina Web-based online information systems
CSA Illumina is designed to provide a simple, more user-friendly approach to searching for novice users while maintaining powerful options for users who require them. The interface provides access to more than 100 databases published by CSA and its publishing partners.

CSA Illustrata provides web-based access to indexed tables, figures, maps, graphs, charts and other images contained in scholarly articles. This unique tool provides researchers precision, efficiency, and relevance in the data discovery process. Users can display the full image, including captions and label text – all of which can be easily saved or imported and used for presentations, lectures or research. The first database in the family, CSA Illustrata: Natural Sciences , includes tables and figures from more than 1,000 journals from prominent publishers resulting in more than 1 million indexed images. Click here to find out more.

Detailed factsheets are available for the primary databases in the following subject areas. These factsheets include sample records, update and size information as well as links to other information relevant to searching each database.
    Arts and Humanities
    Natural Sciences
    Social Scienes
    Technology
    Alphabetical lists