Database Trials
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| Database | Vendor Description | Trial Ends |
|---|---|---|
| AskZad (trial 2) | AskZad is the first and largest Arabic digital library that offers an extensive referential, cultural and academic database.In 2009, AskZad launched its fully bilingual interface, giving English speakers access to Arabic language content, academic journal archives, references, e-books, and academic research, conference materials and a proprietary Pan-Arab News Index. | 2012-03-05 |
| Books24/7 (trial 2) | Books 22x7 provides complete access to: The full text of thousands of leading professional business, technical and engineering books Concise summaries of today's foremost business books Best practices from leading senior executives of fortune 5000 companies Full reports and summaries from the analyst community The Leadership Development Channel online, live ... | 2012-02-29 |
| CQ Press Congress Collection | This wealth of data is presented with nonbiased commentary and includes vital biographical and voting data for members of Congress, legislative information organized by topic, key votes, legislative analysis, interest group scores of members, encyclopedic information on Congress, and Supreme Court case summaries relating to the structure and powers of ... | 2012-03-08 |
| Early Canadiana online | Early Canadiana Online (ECO) is the first large-scale online collection of early Canadian print heritage. ECO contains a digitized selection of the content from the microfiche held by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions. ECO currently offers twelve online collections totalling over three million pages and is continually expanding its ... | 2012-03-14 |
| Education in video (trial 2) | Education in Video is the first online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Upon completion, the collection will contain more than 3,000 video titles totaling 1,300 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. It will give ... | 2012-03-30 |
| EIO/Italian studies | Editoria Italiana Online (EIO) - With over 90 publishers now contributing to EIO, this coming year will see a further increase in content, with some 1125 new ebooks among the 7825 ebooks and 195 ejournals available exclusively in EIO. Among the publishers new to EIO in 2012, we are pleased ... | 2012-03-07 |
| Encyclopaedia Islamica | Encyclopaedia Islamica Online is based on the abridged and edited translation of the Persian Dāʾirat al-Maʿārif-i Buzurg-i Islāmī, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. A unique feature of the encyclopaedia Islamica Online lies in the attention given to Shiʿi Islam and its rich and ... | 2012-02-22 |
| JPRS reports, 1957-1994 | This unique collection—fully searchable for the first time—features English translations of foreign-language monographs, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts from regions throughout the world. With an emphasis on communist and developing countries, this digital edition of Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1994, contains a ... | 2012-03-16 |
| MEMO 1 Pioneer Orientalists | This collection consists of the Arabic manuscripts of Joseph Justus Scaliger (d. 1609), Franciscus Raphelengius (d. 1597) and Jacobus Golius (d. 1667) from the Leiden University Library, one of Europe’s top repositories of Oriental manuscripts. These three collections are Leiden’s oldest core collections of Arabic manuscripts. The Golius collection is ... | 2012-03-16 |
| Oxford Bibliographies Online. Classics | The study of the ancient world is a cornerstone of Western scholarship. It possesses a long history with a rich, well-established critical literature, and it is also a highly active field, which constantly produces new discoveries, interpretations, and theories. In addition to a vast body of scholarship, Classical Studies has ... | 2012-03-12 |
| Paper of Record | Conceived by electronic publishing and web pioneer, R.J. (Bob) Huggins in a local Ottawa, Mexican restaurant in 1999, PaperofRecord.com® is a Global pioneer of searchable newspaper image documents presented in their original published form. With 21 million images in our collection so far, PaperofRecord.com is looking to a multi-billion-newspaper page ... | 2012-03-21 |
| Visual thesaurus (test 2) | The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way. | 2012-03-09 |
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