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Trial Databases
Trial databases are made available
to us for a limited time, courtesy of the database provider. Library
support for these resources may be limited, since they are new to
our staff. However, we would like to hear from you. Send
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- BooksInPrint.com
- Includes three components:
- Books in Print -- The essential bibliographic tool for libraries, booksellers, and publishers. Use it to identify currently available books, audio books, or videos.
- Books in Print Professional (for librarians)
- Fiction Connection -- A new reader's advisory service for librarians and readers alike. Just finish a novel you really liked? Use this resource to find similar books.
Let us know what you think!
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- The Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2003
- A fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs, and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. EHA offers full-color images, multiple search indexes, topic and area supplements and surveys, together with a gallery of front covers and a selection of exportable financial tables. Let us know what you think!
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- Eighteenth Century Collections Online
- An online archive of significant English-language and foreign-language titles printed in Great Britain during the 18th century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas. Let us know what you think!
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- 19th Century U.S. Newspapers
- Provides access to approximately 1.7 million pages of primary source newspaper content from the 19th century, featuring full-text content and images from numerous newspapers from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S. Let us know what you think!
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- Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) via EBSCO
- An index to journal articles about tests and measures in health, behavioral sciences, social work, and other fields. We already subscribe to this database but we're considering switching providers. Let us know what you think!
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- Literature Resource Center
- A rich source of information about authors and their works in all genres, all time periods, and from around the world. This database includes
- Biographical entries from Contemporary Authors, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Contemporary Literary Criticism, and other sources, providing detailed biographical, bibliographical and contextual information about authors' lives and works
- Full-text critical essays and reviews from Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, as well as Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Short Story Criticism, and Children's Literature Review
- More than 650,000 full-text articles, critical essays and reviews from over 300 scholarly journals and literary magazines
- Nearly 30,000 full-text poems, short stories and plays
- More than 4,500 interviews
- More than 2800 author portraits
- The ability to identify groups of authors who share characteristics such as genre, time period, themes, nationality, ethnicity and gender
- Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, featuring 10,000 definitions of literary terms
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- MLA International Bibliography via EBSCO
- An index to scholarly research in the fields of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore produced by the Modern Language Association of America. We already subscribe to this database but we're considering switching providers. Let us know what you think!
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- Philosopher's Index via EBSCO
- An index to journals in philosophy and related fields, covering topics such as ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and logic. We already subscribe to this database, but we're considering switching providers. Let us know what you think!
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- ProQuest Dissertations & Theses - Full Text
- Includes citations for 2.4 million dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day as well as 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older works.
More than 60,000 new full text dissertations and theses from leading academic institutions are added to the database each year.
Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Let us know what you think!
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- The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985
- Search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London) to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching. Let us know what you think!
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- UpToDate
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- UpToDate is an online clinical community that synthesizes medical knowledge for clinicians and patients. This community includes more than 3,800 expert clinicians who function as authors, editors and peer reviewers. UpToDate covers more than 7,400 topics in 13 medical specialties. Its evidence-based treatment recommendations are kept current as new studies are released and practices change. The topic reviews in UpToDate cover all the major aspects of a particular condition, including symptoms, tests and diagnosis, and treatment options. Let us know what you think!
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