Electronic Resources Trials
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Trial period |
Resource Name |
Description |
Library Contact |
| 4/9/2012-7/8/2012 | American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection | EBSCO partners with American Antiquarian Society (AAS), the premier library documenting the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877. American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1 presents more than 500 titles dating from 1691 through 1820. Almost every 17th- and 18th-century American title is represented in addition to the majority of works published before 1821. Series 2 presents over 1,000 titles dating from 1821 through 1837. Series 2 represents the Jacksonian Democracy era in history and is broad in scope including agriculture, entertainment, history, literary criticism, and politics. Series 3 presents over 1,800 titles dating from 1838 through 1852. Series 3 reveals a rapidly growing young nation, where industrialization, the railroads, regional political differences, and life on the western frontier were daily realities. Series 4 presents over 1,200 titles dating from 1853 through 1865. While the Civil War is a key focal point of Series 4, it also features a diverse record of the continuance of daily life for many Americans—both leading up to and during the war. News from the battlefront is found, in addition to the usual breadth of subject matter found in Series 1-3 (e.g., science, literature, medicine, agriculture, women’s fashion, family life, and religion). Series 5 contains over 2,500 titles dating from 1866 through 1877. Themes presented reflect a nation that persevered through a most difficult set of circumstances—the aftermath of a bloody civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, the incorporation of the recently-freed African Americans into American life, a population that rapidly expanded into the Western territories, and much more. Series 5 coverage of broad subject areas reach into every facet of American life, including science, literature, medicine, agriculture, fashion, family life, politics, education and religion. |
Kuei Chiu |
| 7/30/2012-8/29/2012 | World News Connection | Compiled from thousands of worldwide media sources, the information in World News Connection covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, environmental issues and current events throughout the world. Updated daily, WNC offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information. | Ken Furuta |
| 10/09012-11/08-12 | Social Explorer | Social Explorer is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to current and historical census data and demographic information. The easy-to-use web interface let users create maps and reports to better illustrate, analyze, and understand demography and social change. | Ken Furuta |
| 7/17/2009- | pubget (freely available) | Pubget, a platform for life science research specializing in retrieving PDF articles with one click, has 3 parts: a “freshened” search engine similar to Medline and Pubmed; a ”pathing engine” to the PDFs; and a “credentials engine that understands the credentials of subscriptions.” The Pubget widget lets you link directly to PDFs of papers from your web page. Article: http://www.bio-itworld.com/news/06/10/09/pubget-full-text-PDF-search.html |
Margaret Hogarth |
*Core coverage refers to sources which will be indexed and abstracted in their entirety (i.e. cover to cover), while "priority" coverage refers to sources from which we will include only those articles which are relevant to the field.
**Priority sources often contain a substantial amount of quality content relevant to the subjects, but also contain a number of articles covering topics not related to the field of study.
