Data Planet simplifies data analysis by providing an all-in-one resource for social science researchers and students to access statistics relevant to their areas of study.
Please send comments to Linda Walton.
CLCD STEMExplore – Trial ended 29 May 2020
CLCD STEMExplore PreK-12 database contains the largest collection of STEM-based PreK-12 fiction and nonfiction children’s and young adult books and media titles available today. It uses distinct STEM qualifiers that resulted in over 400,000 unique titles. CLCD’s new search Topic/Sub-Topic plus age, grade, or reading level qualifiers is ideal for finding the best STEM books for Project Based Learning and Literacy Reading Programs.
Please send comments to Kelly Hangauer.
A&AePortal – Trial ended 14 June 2020
A&AePortal is an authoritative eBook resource that features important works of scholarship in the history of art, architecture, decorative arts, photography, and design. With innovative functionality and extensive metadata, the site offers students and scholars an engaging experience, encouraging critical thinking skills and supporting rigorous academic research.
Please send comments to Rijn Templeton.
UN Comtrade database – Trial expired 4 April 2020
The UN Comtrade database is the largest depository of international trade data. It contains well over 3 billion data records since 1962 and is available publicly on the internet. In addition, it offers public and premium data API for easier integration/download.
Refer to this link on how to fully use UN Comtrade: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/tradekb/Knowledgebase/Comtrade-User-Guide?Keywords=user
Please send comments to Brett Cloyd.
Screen Studies, BFI Film Classics, and BFI Film Studies – Trial ended 31 March 2020
Screen Studies is a dynamic digital platform taking users from script to screen and beyond – offering a broad range of content from Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber and the British Film Institute to support moving-image studies. The primary collection currently comprises 318 critical, contextual, and practical eBooks, 69 Screenplays, and 20 original overview articles. Also available on the platform, BFI Film Studies brings together a rich body of titles from British Film Institute Publishing’s pre-eminent and foundational list of books on film history, theory, national cinemas, genres, filmmakers, and stars. The BFI Film Classics collection consists of titles from the award-winning BFI Film Classics book series which introduces, interprets and celebrates landmarks of world cinema from the silent era to the 21st century.
Use the ‘Collections’ option on the homepage toolbar to navigate to BFI content.
Please send comments to Tim Shipe.
Educational Administration Abstracts – Trial ended 13 March 2020
Educational Administration Abstracts is a database providing hundreds of thousands of bibliographic records covering all areas of educational administration, including educational leadership, educational management and educational research.
Please send comments to Kelly Hangauer.
Royal Geographical Society (RGS) – Trial ended 17 March 2020
The Royal Geographical Society (RGS) Archive includes Maps, Atlases, Charts and Plans; Expedition Reports; Fieldnotes, Correspondence and Diaries; Grey Literature; Photographs, Artwork and Illustrations; Journal Manuscripts; Photographs; Proceedings, Lectures, and Ephemera. The collection spans a wide variety of interdisciplinary research areas, and supports educational needs in Anthropology, Area Studies; Cartography and Visualizations, Colonial, Post-Colonial & Decolonisation Studies; Development Studies; Environmental Degradation; Historical & Cultural Geography; Historical Sociology; Human Geography; Identity, Gender & Ethnic Studies; Geology; International Relations; Trade and Commerce, and Law and Policy relating to Colonization. The earliest printed cartographic item dates back to 1485, and recent items are also included in the Archive.
For the duration of this trial, RGS will appear along with Iowa’s two other Wiley Digital Archives (Royal Anthropological Institute and The New York Academy of Sciences).
Please send comments to Brett Cloyd.
Foreign Affairs- Trial ended 14 February 2020.
Foreign Affairs is published by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a non-profit and nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to improving the understanding of U.S. foreign policy and international affairs through the free exchange of ideas.
Please send comments to Brett Cloyd.
NewspaperARCHIVE.com – Trial ended 10 January 2020.
NewspaperARCHIVE.com is a searchable database with large collections of both historical and current newspaper content, that currently providing over 250 million pages and adding over 50 million pages per year.
Please send comments to Linda Walton.
Food and Drink in History – Trial ended 24 December 2019
Food And Drink in History explores five centuries of primary source material documenting the story of food and drink; these materials illustrate the deep links between food and identity, politics and power, gender, race and socio-economic status, as well as charting key issues around agriculture, nutrition and food production.
Please send comments to Janalyn Moss.