Trial Databases
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Help Us Test Databases and Tell Us What You Think
| Trial End Date | Name of Database | Description |
| August 31, 2010 | MLA Literary Research Guide, 5th ed. | A selective, annotated guide to reference sources essential to the study of British literature, literatures of the United States, other literatures in English, and related topics. |
| September 15, 2010 | Grove Music Online | Grove Music Online includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition. |
| September 15, 2010 | Encyclopedia of Popular Music (EPM) | EPM gives you online access to the largest and most authoritative popular music reference work, comprised of the full text of The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th Edition. |
| September 18, 2010 | Alexander Street Literature | "Alexander Street Literature is a comprehensive, cross-searchable package of collections covering literatures of place, race, and gender. Today, Alexander Street Literature features 8 collections and offers over 250,000 pages of poetry, short fiction, and novels. With new content being added on a regular basis, the current package will grow to over 500,000 pages of poetry and prose." |
| September 18, 2010 | Theatre in Video | "Theatre In Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors." |
| Soon | American Mosaic - The African American Experience* | "To provide rock-solid information from authorities in the field, and to allow African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. Drawing on over 400 volumes, and designed under the guidance of leading librarians of color, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day." |
| Soon | American Mosaic – The American Indian Experience* | "The American Indian Experience (AIE) is a full-text digital resource exploring the histories and contemporary cultures of the indigenous peoples of the United States. Designed, developed, and indexed under the guidance of Loriene Roy, the first Native American President of the American Library Association, and a team of American Indian librarians and scholars to meet the needs of teachers and their students, librarians and their patrons, researchers and the general public, The American Indian Experience offers access to an online library, featuring more than 150 volumes of scholarship and reference content, hundreds of primary documents, and thousands of images. From Pre-contact to the present day, from the Inuit of the north to the Seminoles of Florida, AIE is meant for anyone wishing to learn more about America's Native Peoples." |
| Soon | American Mosaic - The Latino American Experience* | A "full-text digital resource exploring the history and culture of U.S. Latinos. Wide-ranging and easy to use, LAE is the first-ever full-text database focusing on the history and culture of Latinos living in the United States. Its content spans from the pre-Columbian Indigenous civilizations of the Americas, through the Spanish and Mexican settlement of much of what is now the United States, to the triumphs and challenges facing present-day U.S. Latinos." |
| Soon | Daily Life America* | Primary documents, books and websites that spotlight the day-to-day lives of average Americans, past and present. |
| Soon | Daily Life through History* | A "groundbreaking, dynamic resource that provides content from a vast number of reference works, monographs, and primary documents. Based on the landmark Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life, Daily Life through History is supported by an active publishing program that ensures an ever-expanding and updated base of content." |
| Soon | America: History and Life with Full Text* | Database of literature covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. |
| Soon | CINAHL with Full Text* | This authoritative file contains full text for many of the most used journals in the CINAHL index - with no embargo. With full-text coverage dating back to 1981, CINAHL with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature. |
| Soon | Historical Abstracts with Full Text* | Covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and much more. |
| Soon | PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost)* | PsycARTICLES is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®. |
| Soon | Legal Information Reference Center* | Providing online full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, Legal Information Reference Center™ contains more than 310 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. Many of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo, the nation's oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. |
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Listing of these databases is for evaluation purposes only and does not imply purchase by the Library.
