Dear Students,

The University of Warsaw is currently offering free access to several new digital resources. Below you will find details on each database, including descriptions and links for home access.

ProQuest Central Premium

ProQuest Central Premium provides extensive full-text academic content, including journals, magazines, news sources (such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe, The Baltimore Sun), trade publications, case studies, market and industry reports, business cases, videos, ebooks, A&I resources (ProQuest Research Assistant), and primary sources.
This database offers broad, discipline-aligned research coverage.

The University of Warsaw provides trial access to ProQuest Central Premium external until December 15, 2025.

 

Scopus AI

Scopus AI uses machine learning, natural language processing, and large-scale language models to help researchers efficiently review literature, verify data, and construct bibliographies. The tool is available within the SCOPUS platform under the Scopus AI tab.

 

Statista (New Database)

Statista is one of the world’s largest platforms for statistics and market data. It contains over 1.5 million statistics, forecasts, documents, reports, and infographics covering 80,000 topics from 22,500+ sources.
The Statista Research AI tool searches only within Statista and provides summaries with the most relevant sources.

 

Oxford Scholarship Online – AI Discovery Assistant (New Tool)

The AI Discovery Assistant accepts natural-language queries and returns relevant results from across Oxford Academic resources. It is available to all registered Oxford Academic users. A free Oxford Academic account is required.

American Studies Colloquium Series

December 11: “Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism”

December 3, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the next lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Winter semester! This time we are pleased to host Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago) with a lecture titled “Mother(less) Tongues of ‘America’: Xenoglossic Writing and Xenoglossic Breathing in the Poetry of Etel Adnan and LaTasha N. Nevada-Diggs”.

Year 2025/2026

Dec 11-12: International Conference on Anti-Gender Campaigns and the Politics of Knowledge Production

November 28, 2025

The American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw invites you to the international conference Anti-gender campaigns and the politics of knowledge production, to be held on 11–12 December 2025 in Warsaw, Poland.

News

Call for Papers: “America and the World: A Reciprocal History of Influence and Exchange”

November 26, 2025

In 2026, the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw will celebrate its 50th anniversary, a landmark occasion that coincides with the 250th anniversary of the United States. To mark these dual jubilees, we invite scholars to submit papers that explore the past, present, and future of the United States, its global impact, and the evolving role of American Studies as a field of inquiry.

American Studies Colloquium Series

December 2: “Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error”

November 25, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the fourth lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Winter semester! This time we are pleased to host Michael Davidson from University of California, San Diego with a lecture “Distressing Language: Disability and the Poetics of Error”.

American Studies Colloquium Series

November 27: “The Era of Political (Not) Kidding. How Politics Became a Strategically Ambiguous Joke”

November 24, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to the third lecture of the American Studies Colloquium Series in the 2025/2026 Winter semester! This time we are pleased to host Aaron J. Leonard who is an independent scholar with a lecture titled “Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism”.