A Notebook on ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

For the last couple of weeks, I've been doing searches on Proquest Dissertations &Theses Global -- an expansive database comprised of "abstracts and indexing for approximately 4 million dissertations and theses, with full text (PDFs) for more than 2 million of those works."

Here are a series of writings that I produced on my searches:
• 5 Positive Possibilities of using ProQuest Dissertation database
• African American literary studies and ProQuest
• ProQuest dissertations and black women writers, 2000 - 2018
• The absence of "black men writers" in dissertations
• Amiri Baraka, ProQuest, and dissertations 1960 - 2018
• Richard Wright, literary studies, and ProQuest Dissertations

Pain points
• Multiple searches as database pain point
• Names as pain points during database searches
• The trouble with "American literature" and "African American literature" as subjects on databases