ProQuest Science Collections combine three core content elements to optimise discoverability of relevant research:

The combination of traditional bibliographic abstracts providing the widest and deepest coverage within natural sciences, deep-indexed tables and figures for search precision, and over 1,500 relevant full-text journals provides a vast depth of knowledge within the field.

ProQuest Natural Science Collection brings together each of ProQuest's six natural sciences collection products along with the award winning, deep-indexing resource, ProQuest Illustrata™: Natural Science:

Component Science and Technology Collection Products:

• ProQuest Illustrata™: Natural Science
• ProQuest Agricultural Science Collection
• ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection
• ProQuest Atmospheric Science Collection
• ProQuest Biological Science Collection
• ProQuest Earth Science Collection
• ProQuest Environmental Science Collection

ProQuest Natural Science Collection includes:

Discipline Oriented Bibliographic Abstracts Databases

Component Modules

• AGRICOLA
• Aqualine
• ProQuest ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
• Biological Sciences
• ProQuest Conference Papers Index
• ProQuest EIS: Environmental Impact Statements: Full Text & Digests
• ProQuest ESPM: Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management
• GeoRef
• MEDLINE (10-year rolling back file)
• ProQuest Meteorological & Geoastrophysical Abstracts
• ProQuest Oceanic Abstracts
• Plant Science
• TOXLINE (5-year rolling back file)

Deep Indexing

ProQuest Illustrata™: Natural Science

ProQuest Illustrata: Natural Sciences offers groundbreaking Deep Indexing of tables and figures to enhance research. Deep Indexing is the innovative process by which ProQuest creates metadata for the vital research data that often remains hidden in tables and figures within journal articles. Deep Indexing allows efficient, precise and relevant retrieval, leading the researcher to the right choice of full text.

Within any given Natural Science article there are on average eight images that hold a lot of highly informative data on the fundamental issues dealt with by the article. With traditional article-level and full-text indexing searches, the information contained in images is not searched. ProQuest Illustrata: Natural Sciences indexes these images enabling users to retrieve highly precise results.

Users can uncover critical data that would not be easily found via traditional searching, and improve research efficiency by quickly identifying the most relevant results. Researchers can to search millions of indexed images in scholarly articles from key academic titles.

ProQuest Illustrata: Natural Sciences covers subjects that complement the entire ProQuest Natural Science portfolio. For more information on Deep Indexing and ProQuest Illustrata: Natural Sciences click here.

Full Text

Full text sources include scholarly journals, trade journals, magazines, reports, books, conference proceedings and news materials of relevance in the field. Click here to view the list of journals included within the ProQuest Natural Science Collection.