Resources under Evaluation (Trials)

The First World War: Personal Experiences – Trial ended 30 April 2013

The First World War: Personal Experiences contains digital images of a wide range of original documents, including diaries, letters, personal narratives, trench journals, scrapbooks, objects, and a wealth of visual sources. It is designed for both teaching and study, from undergraduate to research students and beyond.

Supplementing the primary sources is a wealth of secondary resources including interactive maps, 360° panoramas and walk-throughs of the Sanctuary Wood Trench System, the Memory Wall, In Their Own Words feature, scholarly essays, a slideshow gallery, chronology and glossaries.

Please send additional comments to Chris Africa.

Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980 – Trial ended 30 April 2013

Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan consist of the British Government’s files on the countries of South Asia from shortly before Indian partition and independence up to 1980. The files in this collection cover these events from the standpoint of British officialdom. In addition to high politics, the papers in the files cover such issues as economic and industrial development, trade, migration, visits to South Asia by British politicians and by South Asian politicians to Britain and elsewhere, education, administrative reorganisation, conflict over language, aid, political parties, agriculture and irrigation, and television and the press.

Please send additional comments to Edward Miner.

Education Source – Trial ended 26 June 2013

As the complete source of education scholarship, Education Source covers all levels of education—from early childhood to higher education—as well as all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education and testing.

Developed from a merger of high-quality databases from EBSCO Publishing and H.W. Wilson, and including many unque sources that were never previously available, this database covers scholarly research and information to meet the needs of education students, professionals and policy makers.

Please send additional comments to Dottie Persson.

Ethnographic Video Online: Volume II – Trial ended 28 May 2013

Building on the foundational content in the first volume, Ethnographic Video Online: Volume II introduces high-value archival material while also focusing on the state of the discipline today. Current issues such as environmental crises, refugee migration, and endangered languages are well documented, and every sub-discipline of anthropology will be represented, including cultural, linguistic, applied, social, visual, urban, medical, and physical anthropologies, as well as archaeology.

The collection includes contemporary films from partners such as ZED, the BBC, and RAI, as well as targeted content from Documentary Educational Resources and key archives including the Grenada Centre of Anthropology at the University of Manchester.

Please send additional comments to Chris Africa.

World News Connection – Trial ended 3 May 2013

World News Connection is an electronic library resource that translates and delivers information from Beijing, Beirut, Bogota, Cairo, Jakarta, Iraq, Mogadishu, Qatar, Ramallah, Sarajevo, Vienna, and hundreds of other datelines every day.

News sources include newspapers, TV, radio, magazines, conferences and other reports covering the entire world or for regions you choose:

Africa—North, Sub-Saharan, Western
Asia—East, South, Near/Middle
Central Asia/Caucasus
Europe—Western, Central/Eastern
Latin America/Caribbean
Southeast Asia/Oceania

Please send additional comments to Michael Wright.

Digitalia – Trial ended 15 April 2013

Digitalia is a collection of e-books and e-journals in Spanish, currently over 9000 titles with emphasis in the social sciences and the humanities. The collection includes prominent publishers from Latin America and Spain, including CSIC, Iberoamericana Vervuert, LOM, and several university presses. E-journal access is growing both in number of titles and length of coverage. The interface is primarily in Spanish.

Please send additional comments to Lisa Gardinier.

Statistical Abstract of the United States – Trial ended 29 March 2013

The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States 2013 online edition is a significant enhancement over the Census Bureau’s online version:

Line-item access to tables
Updated monthly instead of annually
Table-specific capabilities for narrowing results by source, data date, subject, type of data breakdown
Available as a stand-alone or as a fully integrated part of ProQuest Statistical Insight—with discounts available to current customers
Edited by ProQuest’s team of statistical experts

Please send additional comments to Brett Cloyd.

WordsAnalytics – Trial ended 15 March 2013

WordsAnalytics is a search and analytic web portal for SEC filings. WordsAnalytics treats each paragraph of an SEC filing as a separate document, enabling one to quickly search by keyword or phrase or other criteria. There are more than 1,000 pre-programmed search strings. One may also search a current filing of a company and use a “Compare” or “Finding similar paragraphs” tool to learn of revisions from the previous filing.

Please send additional comments to Kim Bloedel.

Asian Studies in Video – Trial ended 22 April 2013

Asian Studies in Video is an online streaming video collection of narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts. With Asian voices addressing Asian issues, and through works selected by Asian film experts, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights. Its themes—such as modernity, globalization, national identity, female agency, inequalities in opportunity amid social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity—are central to any meaningful discussion of Asian culture.

More than 75 percent of the films stream exclusively in Asian Studies in Video, and more than 60 percent are award winners. Twenty-four countries across the region are represented, with a strong concentration on China, India, Iran, South Korea, and Southeast Asia.

NB: Passcode is uiowaasiv

Please send additional comments to Edward Miner.

L’Année Philologique – Trial ended 8 February 2014

L’Année philologique covers a wide array of subjects, including Greek and Latin literature and linguistics—which includes early Christian texts and patristics—Greek and Roman history, art, archaeology, philosophy, religion, mythology, music, science, and scholarly subspecialties such as numismatics, papyrology and epigraphy.

Please send additional comments to Chris Africa.