nkoda Digital Sheet Music Library – Trial ended 25 September

nkoda is the “Spotify of sheet music.”

For a 14-day trial please go to https://www.nkoda.com/institutions/trial/iowa and follow these steps:

  1. It’s important to go through the process on the link provided, before downloading the app
  2. Once you’re on the trial page, enter your email address in the field provided
  3. Click ‘Get started’
  4. Fill out your details to create your account
  5. Click ‘Next’
  6. Your account has been created, and you now have free access to nkoda for 14 days
  7. Click on the relevant App Store link to download the app
  8. Once you have the app downloaded, click ‘Log in/Restore’
  9. Click ‘Or log in via e-mail’
  10. Fill in the details created on the trial page, press ‘Login’, and you’re ready to start exploring!

You can also find a tutorial at https://youtu.be/cWLO0hpgggc.

Please send comments and questions to Katie Buehner.

Credo InfoLit Modules – Trial ended 3 August 2018

Credo InfoLit Modules provide ACRL-aligned instructional materials to help librarians deepen the quality of student instruction on research strategies and techniques. InfoLit Modules can supplement existing lessons, provide “one shot” library instructional sessions, and address gaps in classroom or online teaching with 60 high-quality videos, tutorials, and quizzes.

When you are prompted for a log-in, use one the following:

For this trial, you will have staff-level access and student-level acces

Please send additional information to Lisa Martincik.

Mergent Intellect – Trial ended 1 December 2017

Mergent Intellect is a highly flexible web-based application that features a deep collection of worldwide business information that enables companies to generate insightful business intelligence. Coupling Mergent’s expertise in developing products for the reference marketplace with D&B®’s private company database, Mergent Intellect offers new and existing clients a unique opportunity to access private and public U.S and international business data, industry news, facts and figures, executive contact information, the ability to access industry profiles and much more.

Please send additional comments to Kimberly Bloedel.

Gallup Analytics – Trial ended 30 April 2017

Gallup Analytics is an online platform that provides subscribers with access to nearly a century of U.S. data and a decade of global tracking data known as the Gallup World Poll. Gallup Analytics allows subscribers to use this wealth of primary data in their work like never before. The online platform includes new data and historical trends at the country, state and U.S. city levels. All trends are easily searchable and exportable. Subscribers can view data by demographic categories, compare results across geographies to develop and report findings, including direct citations of Gallup’s work.

Please send additional comments to Brett Cloyd.

China Geo-Explorer II – Trial ended 25 November 2016

China Geo-Explorer offers a web based spatial data service that allows easy access to a rich collection of unique, authoritative, and comprehensive information from government statistics, population and economic Census, and many other data sources in a spatially integrated system with many powerful functions for exploratory spatial data analysis.

Please send additional comments to Brett Cloyd.