Database Trials
The resources listed below are currently open for testing by Duke University affiliates. Click on title links for access, full descriptions, and user comments.
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| Database | Vendor Description | Trial Ends |
|---|---|---|
| All the world's primates | All the World’s Primates website is the comprehensive and authoritative resource for information about all the species and subspecies of living lorises, galagos, lemurs, tarsiers, monkeys, and apes. PLEASE NOTE: Two provisos: First the site requires Microsoft's Silverlight. If it is not installed the site will prompt users to ... | 2013-06-02 |
| E-article (Korean scholarly journals) | Full database of Korean scholarly journals in humanities, social sciences and science. Searching is by title, author, keyword and journal title. | 2013-06-30 |
| Filmmakers library online II | Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from ... | 2013-07-03 |
| International bibliography of the social sciences | This database includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are ... | 2013-06-13 |
| International historical statistics | The International Historical Statistics (IHS) series is a unique collection of statistics covering a wide range of socio- economic topics. It is a collection of data sets taken from hundreds of disparate primary sources, including both official national and international abstracts – back to 1750. The new online edition provides ... | 2013-05-21 |
| Korean scholarship information | Full text database covering many subjects, and includes primary sources as well as North Korean language and literature, prominent authors' works; approximately 50 journals published during the colonial period (these journals will be available this fall) | 2013-06-30 |
| Literature and Culture Collection (Rotunda) | Rotunda’s Literature and Culture collection offers scholars and students at all levels an invaluable source of primary and secondary materials by some of the most enduring poets and prose writers from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century. | 2013-05-29 |
| New Nonmun (Korean journals) | Full text database of Korean scholarly journals in humanities, social sciences and science. Searching by title, author, keyword, journal title, and publisher. | 2013-06-30 |
| ProQuest SciTech Collection | This database is the ultimate science and technology research solution, combining full text journals with detailed indexing of global literature on natural sciences, engineering and technology. Areas covered include materials science, aerospace engineering, civil engineering, biology, aquatic sciences, environmental science, computer science and earth sciences in addition to many more. ... | 2013-06-05 |
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