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PrivCo – Trial ended 27 August 2012

PrivCo, Private Company Database, a database with extensive information about over 30,000 major private companies, is now available via a trial.  As their site notes, “PrivCo is the premiere source for business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies.” PrivCo does its own unique research that provides data which goes far beyond what has previously been available about privately owned companies.

Please send additional comments to Dave Martin.

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Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies Online I – Trial ended 31 July 2012

Brill’s Companions in Classical Studies Online presents the best in current scholarship on a variety of subjects. Ranging from Homer to Ovid and from Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century BC to Flavian Rome, this ebook collection will be of use to scholars and students alike.

Please send additional comments to Chris Africa.

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eMarketer – Trial ended June 30, 2012

eMarketer publishes data, analysis and insights on digital marketing, media, and commerce. Topics cover social media, mobile, video, advertising/marketing, digital commerce, demographics.   Formats include analyst reports, articles, charts, case studies, interviews, comparative estimates, and forecasts.

Please send additional comments to Dave Martin.

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Classic Mexican Cinema – Trial ended 1 June 2012

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 audiences and international markets in Latin America, the United States, and Europe. The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema is illuminated in this collection of popular movie periodicals.

Please send additional comments to Lisa Gardinier.

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Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) – Trial ended 30 June 2012

Nineteenth Century Collections Online is the most ambitious scholarly digitization and publication project ever undertaken, providing full-text, fully searchable content from a wide range of primary sources for the “long” 19th century. NCCO will include works in Western as well as non-Western languages, sourced from rare collections at libraries and other institutions around the globe.

Please send additional comments to Edward Shreeves.

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Anthropology Online – Trial ended 9 June 2012

Anthropology Online brings together a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over. This will be the most comprehensive resource for the study of social and cultural life yet created, and will be cross-searchable with Ethnographic Video Online.

Please send additional comments to Chris Africa.

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Scopus — Trial ended 18 May 2012

Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It’s designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process.

NB: If you are accessing with IE9, compatibility mode is required. IE8 and Firefox work without problem.

Please send additional comments to Ed Shreeves.

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Shen Bao (a.k.a. Shanghai News) – Trial ended 23 March 2012

From 1872 until 1949, readers across China relied on the Shanghai news daily Shen Bao, China’s first modern newspaper. Today East Asian scholars rely on this archive for insights on China from the late Qing Dynasy through the Minguo (Republican) era that culminated in Communist revolution.

Scholars can access Shen Bao on two platforms, each with their own unique search functionality:

- Shen Bao (on the Green Apple platform)

- Shen Bao (on the Huawenku platform)

Please send additional comments to Min Tian.

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Early European Books – Trial ended 1 April 2012

Early European Books traces the history of printing in Europe from its origins through to the close of the seventeenth century, offering full-colour, high-resolution facsimile images of rare and hard-to-access printed sources.

Please send additional comments to Ed Shreeves.

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Caribbean Literature – Trial ended 17 April, 2012

Caribbean Literature is a searchable collection of poetry and fiction produced in the Caribbean region during the 19th and 20th centuries, presented in the original languages (English, French, Spanish, Dutch, and various Creoles). Also includes dictionaries of the Creoles spoken in these countries.

Please send additional comments to Tim Shipe.