Resources under Evaluation (Trials)

Classic Mexican Cinema – Trial ends 1 June 2012

Lisa Martincik — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:44:22 +0000

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.

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

Lisa Martincik — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:00:26 +0000

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.

Anthropology Online – Trial ends 9 June 2012

Lisa Martincik — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 14:09:50 +0000

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.

The Evening Star – Trial ended 12 May 2012

Lisa Martincik — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:03:38 +0000

For more than a century historians have regarded The Evening Star as the newspaper of record for the nation’s capital. Published under such titles as the Daily Evening Star, Washington Star-News and the Washington Evening Star, this long-running daily afternoon paper was one of the highest profile publications in the nation. Chronicling 70 years of American history, this digital edition offers significant new research opportunities from the Antebellum Period to the Progressive Era to World War I and its aftermath. [Currently, approximately 5,000 pages are available.]

NB: Page may be slow to load.

Please send additional comments to Kathy Magarrell.

AtoZ World Business – Trial ends 14 May 2012

Lisa Martincik — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:50:12 +0000

AtoZ World Business consists of 100 Country Business Guides of 108 topics each and 76 World Trade Resources. They offer entrepreneurs, business professionals, and researchers access to vetted international business and trade intelligence, compiled into a single, reliable source. Major contributions from:

The World Bank
World Trade Organization
Ernst & Young
GALA (Global Advertising Law Alliance)

Please send additional comments to Dave Martin.

Érudit – Trial ends 30 June 2012

Lisa Martincik — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:51:48 +0000

Érudit is a full-text platform for scholarly and cultural journals in the French language.

Please send additional comments to Tim Shipe.

Scopus — Trial ends 18 May 2012

Lisa Martincik — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:18:03 +0000

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.

Classical Music in Video – Trial ends 15 May 2012

Lisa Martincik — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:29:50 +0000

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 interviews with master teachers from around the world.

Please send additional comments to Ruthann McTyre.

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

Lisa Martincik — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:44:31 +0000

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.

Early European Books – Trial ended 1 April 2012

Lisa Martincik — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:23:19 +0000

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.