HeritageQuest Gets Boost
By Michael Rogers -- Library Journal, 6/15/2007
ProQuest CSA has cut a deal with LexisNexis to boost its HeritageQuest Online product. Under the agreement, LexisNexis is supplying materials from its Serial Set (specifically Private Relief Actions and Memorials and Petitions) that will be added to HeritageQuest Online. Serials Set is an ongoing collection of U.S. government publications compiled under the directive of Congress, which captures every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward and includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports. According to ProQuest CSA, the additional materials give users “access to 480,000 pages of images contained within 150,000 U.S. government documents dating back to 1789.”
Civil War Era debuts
Additionally, ProQuest CSA is now marketing the Civil War Era, a primary source database of newspapers and activist publications, among them 2000 pamphlets representing the perspectives of government officials, clergy, social reformers, and other top opinion leaders, drawn from the personal libraries of then Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase and New Hampshire Senator John P. Hale.
The newspaper sources represent the perspectives of the North (Boston Herald, New York Herald), South (Richmond Dispatch, Charleston Mercury), Mississippi Valley and border states (Kentucky Daily Journal, Memphis Daily Appeal), and other regions.
