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Libraries recognize they must support researchers taking on today’s global challenges -- such as climate change, human rights and infectious diseases -- with authoritative content and researcher-centric tools.

ProQuest’s TDM Studio is a solution that gives researchers a new path to innovation. From an initial idea to the final output, TDM Studio leverages the power of a library’s content to help researchers at all levels make new connections and uncover career-defining outcomes.

Two Pathways to Perform Text and Data Mining

Are your researchers accustomed to using coding for text analysis? The Workbench provides programmatic access to millions of ProQuest content using R or Python.

Do you researchers want to visualize data quickly without coding? Visualizations offer a new option to interrogate ProQuest content and easily discover insights across thousands of documents.

TDM Studio offers:

  • • Sought-After Content: Offers access to rights-cleared content from ProQuest subscriptions and purchases such as Historical Newspapers. Historical Newspapers provide critical information and context on issues and events of the past -- and how they unfolded over time.
  • • Flexibility: Combining intuitive dataset creation, Jupyter Notebook access and data visualizations, TDM Studio supports data literacy as well as research across disciplines and experience levels
  • • Efficiency: Significantly decrease the time to analysis, quickly create datasets and either visualize content relationships or access content in a consistent data schema across ProQuest sources
  • • Research, Teaching and Learning: Enhance research, teaching and learning outcomes with a solution designed for varied skill levels in research methodologies and approaches

Research Use Cases

  • • Princeton University Researcher, Gavin Cook, used TDM Studio to analyze a corpus of 700,000 newspaper articles related to COVID-19. He disovered how creating topic models from that analysis can give us unprecedented insights on the areas of interest.
  • • University of Sydney integrated TDM and data literacy into its undergraduate courses. Students gained hands-on experience with TDM through visualizations. The exposure to this type of analytics helped students better understand the content they were studying and prompted them to make new discoveries in related topics.
  • • University of Arkansas used TDM Studio for a project that analyzed how public firms communicate information and how that information is reported to the media.
  • • Columbia University used TDM Studio for a project that used Twitter to provide culturally sensitive support to dementia caregivers.

What People Are Saying

”We’ve been searching for an accessible path to current and historical content for our faculty and students to text and data mine. We expect this offering will foster community engagement with library collections and give users the means for collaborative research discoveries that are in line with Dartmouth’s mission.”

- Kenneth Peterson, Associate Librarian for Access & Collection Strategies, Dartmouth College


”Given faculty interest in ProQuest’s rich historical content at our libraries, bringing the TDM Studio solution to Syracuse Libraries and our campus community is a natural next step. Our Digital and Open Scholarship Team anticipates collaborating with faculty to use TDM Studio, helping them discover not only new answers to existing questions, but potentially exciting ways to frame new inquiries.”

- Scott Warren, Associate Dean of Research Excellence,
Syracuse University


”By text mining a large corpus of material, TDM Studio is helping us learn the right words and phrases to help target caregivers with self-care and self-management messages, reducing their risk of loneliness and depression.”

- Sunmoo Yoon, Associate Research Scientist,
Columbia University


”Analyzing newspapers can reveal timely information on the public’s perception of regulatory policy responses to the pandemic. This information could…help policymakers prioritize their reforms to minimize unnecessary regulatory burdens.”

- Zhoudan Zie, Senior Policy Analyst, Regulatory Studies Center,
George Washington University


”COVID-19 has quickly become a decade-defining issue and analyzing ProQuest’s newspaper corpus with TDM can help shed light on how the world has reacted to it.”

- Gavin G. Cook, PhD Student in the Department of Sociology, Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China


”[TDM] helped students better understand the content they were studying or prompted them to make new discoveries in related topics.”

- University of Sydney


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