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DATABASE TRIAL: British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900

British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 focuses on the two centuries of Britain’s colonial, missionary, commercial and literary relations with Africa and the Americas. The database contains 14 collections of rare primary source documents, with the total number of

Posted in Africana Studies, Arts & Humanities, Business, Chinese Studies, Cultural Analysis & Theory, Database Trials, Education, History, Political Science, Sociology

DATABASE TRIAL: New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990–Present

200 full length feature films from leading independent distributors…

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Cinema Studies, Cultural Analysis & Theory, Database Trials, Film Studies, MFA Theatre & Film, Writing and Literature

Database Trial: Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive

Essential primary sources for studying the history of film, music, broadcasting and theater.

Posted in Database Trials, Film Studies, Music, Theatre

Trial of Waters & Oceans Worldwide Database

Waters & Oceans Worldwide combines databases on all facets of international water research. Included in this collection are records from the now-ceased database Marine, Oceanographic and Freshwater Resources (MOFR), plus six of the world’s major water resource databases, including WATERLIT,

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The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monograph Collection – Trial Access through June 30

The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monograph Collection, Series 1: 13th Century-1893, and Series 2: 1894-1923. These ATLA collections contain more than 29,000 titles focused on religion and theology. Series 1 contains over 5 million pages of content and

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American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Trial through June 30

The American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection, Series 1: 1691-1820; and Series 2: 1821-1837. The collections include digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals housed in the American Antiquarian Society, the premier library documenting the life

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Cambridge Books Online Trial

Cambridge University Press is one of the largest and most prestigious academic publishers in the world and publishes scholarly journals and books for subjects as diverse as astronomy, Shakespeare studies, economics, mathematics and politics. Cambridge Books Online provides desktop access

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Trial of Readers’ Guide Retrospective Available

Readers’ Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Over 3 million articles from approximately 375 leading magazines are indexed. Coverage

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Electronic Books from Springer Publishing on Trial

This trial covers all Springer eBook Collections for copyright years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 including nearly 10,000 eBooks and eReference Works, and is available until the end of October. The titles included cover a wide range of subject

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GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)

GREENR focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment. Both interactive and current, GREENR allows users to navigate issue, organization and country portals. This resource provides news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents and statistics in

Posted in Database Trials, Sustainability