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| Database | Vendor Description | Trial Ends |
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| American broadsides and ephemera, 1760-1900 | Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection, American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series 1, 1760-1900 is a widely praised digital resource offering 30,000 fully searchable images of printed items never intended to last. These surviving broadsides and ephemeral documents, often rare and graphically stunning, vividly capture the daily lives of ... | 2012-06-08 |
| Anthropology today | Alexander Street Anthropology is a comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior. Featuring cross-searchable access to the acclaimed Ethnographic Video Online and Anthropology Online collections, Alexander Street Anthropology provides Anthropologists, Sociologists and cultural historians with an expansive and multifaceted survey of the discipline. Researchers can explore a ... | 2012-06-18 |
| Beijing Review Archive, 1958-2007 | Beijing Review is China's only national news magazine in English. It is published every week in Beijing, by the China International Publishing Group(CIPG), Launched in March 1958, Beijing Review reports and comments on the country's social, political, economic end cultural affairs, policy changes and latest developments. It also offers in-depth ... | 2012-05-12 |
| China: culture and society | **PLEASE NOTE: DOWNLOAD OPTIONS NOT AVAILABLE DURING TRIALS** Spanning three centuries (c1750-1929), this resource makes available for the first time extremely rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. The resource is full-text searchable, allowing for the collection to be comprehensively explored and studied. In ... | 2012-05-11 |
| Chinese Anti-Rightist Campaign Database, 1957- | Following the publication of the Chinese Cultural Revolution Database (1966-1976), China’s Anti-Rightist Campaign Database (1957- ) represents yet another effort on the part of a group of scholars both inside and outside China to preserve both the truth of contemporary Chinese history and the collective memory of the Chinese people.The ... | 2012-05-14 |
| Classic Mexican cinema online | Mexican Cinema, from its beginnings in the late 1890s to its “Golden Age” (1930s to 1960), was consistently the largest and most important of all the Spanish-speaking countries. During its heyday, the Mexican film industry produced an average of one hundred films annually and supplied screen entertainment to both domestic ... | 2012-05-31 |
| Classical music in video | Classical Music in Video will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video—approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and ... | 2012-06-16 |
| CRC - full access to all ebooks--Social sciences titles | Social Sciences collection--this will soon be on the same CRC platform as the Science Collection | 2012-04-12 |
| CRC -full access to all ebooks (science collection) | CRCnetBASE offers instant access to the world's premier scientific and technical references with added support for libraries. Our subject collections are designed to meet the individualized needs of any sized library or institution. Access to these collections: SCI-TECHnet BASE BUSINESSnetBASE ECONOMICSnetBASE MILITARYnetBASE ProjectMANAGEMENTnetBASE PublicADMINISTRATIONnetBASE | 2012-04-12 |
| Encyclopedia of US-Latin American relations | The Encyclopedia of U.S.-Latin American Relations explores more than 200 years of political, military, economic, and cultural connections between the United States of America and its neighbors to the south. With contributions from more than 160 scholars in history, political science, and Latin American studies, this reference provides a deep ... | 2012-05-08 |
| Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive | An archival research resource containing the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are all included, together with film fan ... | 2012-05-19 |
| Erudit | TRIAL IS FOR THE JOURNALS PORTION OF THE DATABASE ONLY Érudit is a multi-institutional publishing consortium comprising the Université de Montréal, the Université Laval and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Érudit is a non-profit society that offers an innovative model for the promotion and dissemination of research outputs. It ... | 2012-06-30 |
| First World War: Personal experiences | **PLEASE NOTE: DOWNLOAD OPTIONS NOT AVAILABLE DURING TRIALS** This digital resource brings to life the reality of the First World War for the men and women who experienced it firsthand. Containing digital images of a wide range of original documents, including diaries, letters, personal narratives, trench journals, scrapbooks, objects, and ... | 2012-05-11 |
| Humanities and social sciences index retrospective, 1907-1984 | Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective™: 1907-1984 offers a broad range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences with high-quality indexing of more than 1,300,000 articles in nearly 1,100 periodicals, dating as far back as 1907, as well as citations of over 240,000 book reviews. | 2012-06-01 |
| Maisaku | USE THE BLUE LOGIN BUTTON TRIAL IS FOR 5 SIMULTANEOUS USERS | 2012-05-23 |
| March of Time | From 1935-1967, American theatergoers and television watchers were witness to Time Inc.'s unique and controversial newsreel series, The March of Time®. Now, for the first time, this groundbreaking series is available in online streaming video in a single, cross-searchable collection designed specifically to meet the needs of researchers, teaching faculty, ... | 2012-06-24 |
| Nineteenth Century Collections Online - NCCO | THIS IS A TRIAL OF THE PARTIALLY LOADED FIRST (OF 4) ARCHIVE, TO BE COMPLETELY LOADED IN JUNE Nineteenth Century Collections Online is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century. Designed specifically with the researcher in mind, Nineteenth Century Collections ... | 2012-05-31 |
| Papers of the NAACP, Part 1 | This collection, The Papers of the NAACP, Part 1: Meetings of the Board of Directors, Records of Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and Special Reports, 1909-1950, offers the core materials of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1909 through 1950 held in the manuscript division of the ... | 2012-06-11 |
| Shen Bao digital archive, 1872-1949 | The Shen Bao Digital Archive gives unique insight into developments in China in the 19th century and into the 20th century. Established in 1872, Shen Bao (historically transliterated as Shun Pao or Shen-pao) was known for its rich news reporting, commentary and advertisements. Published in Shanghai, Shen Bao was founded ... | 2012-05-11 |
| Women in American politics: history and milestones | Women in American Politics: History and Milestones is a unique and comprehensive new reference detailing the milestones and trends in women's political participation in the United States. This two-volume work provides much needed perspective and background on the events and situations that have surrounded women's political activities. Women in American ... | 2012-05-08 |
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