Quick Start: U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection   Tags: congressional, quick start guides, serial set  

The U.S.Congressional Serial Set, including the American State Papers, is a series of reports and documents published by Congress.  It's called the Serial Set because it was published in serial fashion... meaning that there are more than 15,000 volumes in this series now!   Libraries subscribing to ProQuest Congressional have the indexing for the Serial Set from 1970 forward as part of their Congressional Basic subscription.

If your library has the Serial Set Digital Collection (meaning you have the indexing and the PDFs) you'll see the Serial Set Only options    

 underneath the Search within selection on the Advanced Search tab (shown above).

For more information on the Serial Set, see

• Our YouTube video, or
• The Serial Set White Paper. 

And for information on searching in Congressional, see the ProQuest Congressional Training Videos, in the box to the right, or view our short webinar on the Serial Set.

Users can search the Serial Set (and any other materials subscribed to or purchased) through the Basic Search tab. 

Using the Advanced Search menu allows users to search within specific publication types. 

Note the House & Senate Documents and the House & Senate Reports, both part of the Serial Set, are listed here separately to assist users who may have a citation to one of those document types and who may not know that these are included in the Serial Set.