See What's New in ProQuest
This page provides an overview of what’s new in key ProQuest subscriptions including information on the addition of ProQuest Research Assistant, new content and providers, and enhanced platform features.
ProQuest One Academic Premium & ProQuest Central Premium | ProQuest Digital Collections | ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions | ProQuest Government Documents | ProQuest News & Newspapers | Research Assistant
Platform Spotlight
Featured Highlights
What's New
- • User experience/platform enhancements continue to support stronger research workflows.
- • New Retraction Watch Indicators help users identify retracted or concerning research directly in search results and document views.
- • New accessibility features include a ‘generate accessible text’ feature that helps make content readable by screen readers and more accessible to all users, as well as a way to generate image descriptions that capture visible text and emphasize factual, observable content.
Key ProQuest Databases
ProQuest One Academic Premium & ProQuest Central Premium
What's New
- •The latest updates expand full-text coverage and strengthen research support across business, psychology, science and technology, health, nursing and allied health, and social sciences.
- •Recent additions include hundreds of scholarly journals from major publishers such as Springer Nature, Nature Portfolio, BMJ Group, IGI Global, OUP, Policy Press, Ubiquity Press, and Adonis & Abbey Publishers, along with new trade publications, professional titles, reports, dissertations and theses, and discipline-specific multimedia.
- •User experience/platform enhancements also support stronger research workflows, including AI Research Assistant capabilities such as Chat with a Document, Visualization, and expanded translation, as well as Retraction Watch Indicators that help users identify retracted or concerning research directly in search results and document views.
- Find out more about ProQuest One Academic Premium and ProQuest Central Premium.
ProQuest Digital Collections
What's New
- • New multidisciplinary content releases include new and ongoing primary and secondary source content across anthropology, history, global studies, women's studies, Black studies, entertainment, literature, and the arts.
- • Expanding content partnerships include newly launched and ongoing content features contributions from world-class organizations including the British Library, Donemus, Faber Music, Penske Media, Royal Anthropological Institute, and others.
- • Platform migration and accessibility enhancements include content migrations from the Alexander Street platform to the ProQuest platform, alongside new AI-powered image descriptions and accessible text generation capabilities.
- Find out more about ProQuest Digital Collections.
ProQuest Ebooks
What's New
- • Over 25,000 new titles have been added to ProQuest Ebooks in 2026, including notable additions from Wiley, Taylor & Francis, and Sage.
- • The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Ebook Subscription (included as part of PQE) was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2025.
- • Enhancements to our Ebook Central Reader App, including DRM-free ebook support and new features that create a more seamless, intuitive reading experience.
- Find out more about ProQuest Ebooks.
ProQuest Government Documents
What's New
- • New AI support for congressional research enables ProQuest Research Assistant in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Collection, helping users quickly understand complex documents with key takeaways, important concepts, and suggested research topics.
- • Throughout 2026, new government documents will continue to be added across U.S. and U.K. government, congressional, executive branch, legislative, regulatory, judicial, and statistical collections.
- • Coming in Q4 2026, a new Trends and Policy focused topic, U.S. Federal Elections, will help researchers explore the laws, trends, debates, and data shaping U.S. federal elections in one curated resource.
- Find out more about ProQuest Government Documents.
ProQuest News & Newspapers
What's New
- • Global Newsstream Collection adds 55+ titles including Tampa Free Press, The Daily Caller, GB News UK, Philippine Star, and News.com.au, with nearly 1,700 active full-text titles updated daily or weekly.
- • ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Global interface and content has been enhanced for 2026 delivering an updated interface that improves timeliness, title unification, search, and filtering; expanded coverage of U.S. Major Dailies, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The Jerusalem Post, with new titles including China Mail and The Hindu.
- • Factiva reporting and interface updates include the transition to COUNTER Release 5.1, refreshed visual design improves readability, and Smart Summaries contain copy functionality and clearer source details.
- • PressReader adds premium content and platform features including new titles from Condé Nast U.S. publications, MIT Technology Review, Time, New Scientist, and The Albuquerque Journal, plus puzzles, reporting updates, widgets, trending topics, and the OpenDyslexic font option.
- Find out more about our News & Newspapers offerings.
Research Assistant
What's New
- • New ‘Chat with a Document’ enhancements include:
- • Reference links in responses to user chat questions show where in the document’s full text
- Research Assistant found the information used to answer. This allows users to read the context
- for themselves and validate or verify the response.
- • Suggested follow-up questions with Chat responses help users continue exploring the
- document after Research Assistant responds to a query, guiding their next interactions with
- Research Assistant.
- • All Research Assistant features are now available on Dissertations bringing the value of these features to Dissertations while creating a more consistent user experience across Dissertations and other document types.
- • Research Assistant now remembers interactions for the full session so users do not lose work if they navigate away from a document or move between document and metadata views. Users’ interactions as well as chat conversations and triggered features remain available throughout the session.
- Find out more about Research Assistant.