Virtual Library Guide

Welcome to your Tomorrow University library! Your courses and Challenges already contain everything you need to complete them — but when you want to go deeper, supplement an essay, or build out your thesis, this is where to come.

We've recently upgraded your access. You now have ProQuest Central Premium — one of the largest academic research databases in the world — alongside the open-access journals, ebook library, and curated collections you may already know.

How to Access the ProQuest library

You'll find a new Library menu in the top navigation bar of your Learning App. It has two options:

Library Guide — opens this page, your home base for everything library-related.
Access Library — opens ProQuest Central Premium in a new tab, already authenticated through your ToU account.

First time using ProQuest? Open "Access Library" once to confirm your account works, then come back here for the quick-start videos below.

ProQuest Central Premium

ProQuest Central Premium is your one-stop research database. It pulls together thousands of full-text scholarly journals, trade and professional publications, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, case studies, market reports, and videos — all searchable from a single interface.

What's inside:

Thousands of full-text scholarly journals across business, health, psychology, social sciences, arts, humanities, religion, education, science, and technology
Dissertations, theses, and working papers
Newspapers and magazines (great for current events and case research)
Market and industry reports
Academic videos and multimedia content
Eight specialised ProQuest One subject collections (linked below)

Start here: quick videos & guides

These are the fastest ways to get comfortable with the platform. If you only watch one thing, make it the Quick Tour.

▶️ ProQuest Central Premium Quick Tour — short overview of what's available and how to navigate
▶️ ProQuest Central Premium Essentials (webinar recording) — a deeper walk-through
▶️ Form a Search Query (5 min) — basic search done right
▶️ Refine Your Results (4 min) — filtering, sorting, narrowing down
▶️ Conduct an Advanced Search (6 min) — operators, field codes, and combining queries
📄 ProQuest Basic Search Quick Guide (PDF)
📄 ProQuest Advanced Search Quick Guide (PDF)

Meet the ProQuest Research Assistant

ProQuest's built-in AI Research Assistant can summarise articles, suggest related topics, and help you find the most relevant sources faster. Use it as a starting point — not a substitute for reading the source — and always verify citations.

Subject collections inside ProQuest Central Premium

Each of these is a curated bundle of full-text journals, ebooks, and multimedia in a single discipline. Useful when you want to browse rather than search.

Need help with ProQuest?

ProQuest Central Premium LibGuide — the official help hub
ProQuest Platform LibGuide — search tips, advanced features, citation export
ProQuest Support Center — searchable knowledge base
ProQuest Platform Status — check here if something isn't loading

How to Access Perlego - eBook Library

In addition to ProQuest, ToU subscribes to Perlego, an online library of more than one million ebooks from over 3,000 publishers. Great for textbooks, reference works, and longer-form reading.

Perlego also includes a built-in AI Research Assistant (currently in beta) that helps you find foundational texts on a topic, identify key themes and authors, and surface the most relevant passages across the library — a fast way to get your bearings before deep-reading. Learn more on Perlego's Research Assistant page.

Open Access Resources

CORE.ac.uk - World’s largest collection of Open Access research papers

DOAJ.org - Directory of Open Access Journals

OpenDOAR - Directory of Open Access Repositories

arxiv.org - Open Access archive for more than two million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

EconBiz.de - Journals and papers in business studies and economics

BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

CiteSeerX - An evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science

Journals

Business, Management, Economics, Innovation

Environment, Energy, Sustainability

Computer Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering

Interdisciplinary, Cognitive Science, Other

Design

Design Research Society Digital Library

Databases and Research Collections

Science for UN Sustainable Development Goals by OpenAIRE: contributions of research towards complex challenges for humanity such as climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution and poverty reduction.
Environmental Data Explorer provided by the UN Environmental Programme
OEDC iLibrary - Statistics, research reports and other materials
World Business Council for Sustainable Development Case Studies
RSM Case Development Centre: Extensive collection of business cases that can be filtered by keyword (e.g. SDG, entrepreneurship, sustainable)
Ethics Cases from Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University: Can be filtered by topic (e.g. ESG, leadership, technology or business ethics)
EBSCO GreenFile: Research database covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
The World Bank DataBank: An analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create your own queries; generate tables, charts, and maps; and easily save, embed, and share them.
World Development Indicators: The World Bank’s premier compilation of cross-country comparable data on development
Google Public Data Explorer: Provides public data and forecasts from a range of international organizations and academic institutions including the World Bank, OECD, Eurostat and the University of Denver. These can be displayed as line graphs, bar graphs, cross sectional plots or on maps.

Suggest a resource or get help

This collection grows with your input. If a book, journal, or database would help your program, let us know.

Email library@tomorrow.university to suggest additions.
Use the Support Chat in the Learning app to submit a ticket if there are access issues.
For ProQuest-specific technical issues, ProQuest's Support Center is the fastest route.

Happy researching! 🎉