Current trials
Opposing Viewpoints | Aluka | Classical Music Library | Credo Reference | Periodicals Archive Online
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
On trial through March 31, 2008.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a full-text database covering today's hottest social issues, bringing together wide-ranging information needed to fully understand an issue: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, and links to selected web sites.
For more information or feedback about this trial database, contact Carolyn Meier or Paul Metz.
Aluka
Aluka is an international, multidisciplinary initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides. Three content areas are currently under development:
- African Cultural Heritage Sites and Lanscapes
- Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa
- African Plants
For more information or feedback about this trial database, contact Paul Metz.
Classical Music Library
On trial until April 14, 2008.
Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Coverage of repertoire is increasing as new labels are added, with a particular focus on content that meets the needs of educators and students. Never before have institutions been able to offer library users such ease of access to our recorded heritage - both recordings of the past, and new releases.
The award-winning Classical Music Library's growing collection of 50,000-plus tracks for listening and searching is supplemented by extensive reference materials and backed by a powerful suite of tools designed to support learning.
Classical Music Library is committed to offering recordings from the world's greatest labels to the library community. Our licenses include Hyperion, Bridge Records (contemporary composers), Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Complete list of labels.
For information and feedback about this trial, contact Ana Dubnjakovic.
Credo Reference
On trial through March 31, 2008.
Credo Reference, formerly Xrefer, features full-text, aggregated content from over 270 reference books (our trial includes about 100 of these titles) from over 55 publishers, covering such subjects as medicine, art, technology, history and more. Credo continually adds new content in all subjects, with such notable recent additions as the Bridgeman Art Library Archive, with over 16,000 art images and the interactive Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia including Atlas. The collection includes encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauri, as well as subjectspecific titles.
Credo enriches the content by adding a unique network of cross-references that cut across topics, titles and publishers, to add context to results and enable further discovery. Also included are cross-searchable images, maps and sound files; customizable data tables; interactive, visual displays of search results; and a citation formatter with multiple citation styles.
Credo Reference includes over 3 million entries, 170,000+ images (art, diagrams, maps and photos), and over 206,000 audio pronunciation files.
Try a search now, or see a complete list of available titles on Credo Reference. For more information or feedback about this trial database, contact Lesley Moyo.
Periodicals Archive Online
On trial through March 31, 2008.
Similar to JSTOR but covering different journals, Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) is an online archive of 1.7 million digitized, full-image journal articles providing unprecedented access to international, scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences disciplines from 1802 to 1995. Some 20 percent of the journals are in non-English languages. Much of PAO is indexed in the C19 database, along with other historical US and British periodicals from the 19th century. Use password: plethora.
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