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May 7 2010

Underground and Independent Comics – Trial ended July 7, 2010

Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is the first ever scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels. Beginning with the first underground comix from the 1960’s to the works of modern sequential artists, this collection will contain more than 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, along with 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this artform.

Please send additional comments to Lisa Martincik.

May 5 2010

Naxos Video Library – Trial ended June 30, 2010

Libraries purchased.

The Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 300 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, among others and is continuously updated to offer the best selection of performing arts videos.

Please send additional comments to Ruthann McTyre.

Apr 30 2010

CRCnetBASE – Trial ended May 25, 2010

CRCnetBASE is made up of over 6000 online books that span over 40 disciplines. In addition to e-books published under the imprint CRC Press, CRCnetBASE also includes online references from Auerbach and Chapman & Hall. The powerful research platform has been adopted throughout the world at academic and corporate institutions.

Please send additional comments to Rob Van Rennes.

Apr 28 2010

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection – Trial ended May 26

Libraries purchased.

The L.A. Theatre Works Collection delivers, for the first time online, more than 300 important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays – which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries – are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.

Please send additional comments to Tim Shipe.

Apr 26 2010

Mass Observation Online – Trial ended May 12, 2010

Libraries purchased.

Mass Observation Online is a digital collection of unpublished reports on every day life and culture assembled in Britain from 1937 to 1972. The collection was digitized from selected portions of the archives of Mass Observation, the organization that originally produced these materials, with some updated materials.

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Password: MASSOB2010

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Important: ‘download to PDF’ functionality is not available during trial periods.

Please send additional comments to Ed Shreeves.

Apr 23 2010

Oxford Bibliographies Online – Trial ended May 21, 2010

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO) is a scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules for the social sciences and humanities. OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information in half the time by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. Each entry is a selective guided tour through the key literature on a topic, receives multiple peer-reviews as well as Editorial Board approval, and is designed to facilitate a research experience with no dead ends. All citations are linked through to your collection via OpenURL, full-text via DOIs, or to the web via links to OCLC, WorldCat, and Google Books, allowing users to locate quickly full-text content directly from OBO. OBO is the ultimate collection development tool for librarians and time saving tool for students and researchers.

 Please send additional comments to Edward Miner.

Apr 21 2010

BBC College of Journalism – Trial ended May 19, 2010

Libraries purchased.

The BBC College of Journalism website includes 1,700 content pages, hundreds of videos, audio clips, discussion pages, and interactive modules covering every aspect of TV, radio, and online journalism. Much of the material features BBC TV reporters, anchors, and hosts known around the world. The subjects covered range from craft skills (such as writing or directing video) to subject briefings on critical events and topics such as climate change and the conflict in the Middle East, to the many ethical issues now facing journalists. The site is continuously updated, its coverage driven by the practical needs of BBC journalists around the world, as well as current events in the news.

Please send additional comments to Ericka Raber.