E-resources trials
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Current trials
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| Resource | postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies Access on campus, or off campus via the VPN
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| Description | postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies is a cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed journal in medieval studies that aims to bring the medieval and modern into productive critical relation.
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| Trial ends | 21 June 2013 |
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| Resource | Cite them right Access on campus, or off campus via the VPN
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| Description | Cite them right has been developed by Palgrave as part of their study skills resources. It will help you to reference sources, and understand how to avoid plagiarism. Once you have linked in click on Basics tab for more guidance, or simply start a search straight away.
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| Trial ends | to be confirmed |
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| Resource | Victorian Popular Culture Access on campus, or off campus via the VPN
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| Description | Victorian Popular Culture contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930. |
| Trial ends | 9th June 2013 |
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| Resource | Early American Newspapers, Series 6, 1741-1922 Access on campus, or off campus via the VPN
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| Description | Series 6 provides more than 160 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century newspapers from all 50 present states. Series 6 includes the Detroit Plain Dealer, Detroit’s first successful black newspaper; The Colored American, which provided detailed coverage of the Amistad revolt; Argus of Western America, an early Kentucky paper and a strong supporter of Andrew Jackson; and the Arkansas Gazette, one of the first papers west of the Mississippi. Series 6 also features substantial new runs of important titles found in earlier series but previously unavailable. These include the National Intelligencer, the leading newspaper of the capital; Massachusetts Spy, co-founded by Isaiah Thomas, one of the most successful and colorful journalists of the 18th century; Charleston Courier, predecessor to the oldest daily newspaper in the South; and The Enquirer, Richmond’s enormously influential weekly. |
| Trial ends | 8th June 2013 |
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| Resource | Early American Newspapers, Series 1, 1690-1876 Access on campus, or off campus via the VPN
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| Description | Series 1 enables researchers to explore essential newspapers from 23 states and the District of Columbia. Series 1 offers 350,000 fully searchable issues from over 710 historical American titles. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies. The core of the Readex digital collection consists of American Antiquarian Society (AAS) founder Isaiah Thomas’ own collection of colonial and early national period newspapers and is supplemented by issues added by Thomas’ successors at the AAS. |
| Trial ends | 8th June 2013 |
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| Resource | OnArchitecture Access on campus, or off campus via the VPN
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| Description | OnArchitecture is an online audiovisual service providing a synthetic, deep and detailed panorama of the world's main authors, works, experiences and problematics related to the field of architecture.
OnArchitecture's collection features original videos, such as interviews, buildings and installations, enriched with a selection of complementary material - documents and audiovisuals - about the main authors and figures of contemporary architecture.
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| Trial ends | 10th June 2013 |
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| Resource | American Periodicals
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| Description | This database contains 1,887 American periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
It includes two separate collections, American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) and American Periodicals from the Center for Research (APCRL).
For more information, please see the Proquest site |
| Trial ends | 6th June 2013 |
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| Resource | China Doctoral Dissertations Full-text Database
China Masters Theses Full-text Database
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| Description | The two databases contain 1,590,381 Masters' theses from 628 Master granting institutions and 191,295 Doctoral dissertations from 410 PhD granting institutions since year 2000. It has a complete coverage of dissertations/theses from top universities and research institutes in China, including "985 Project" and "211 Project" universities, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Chinese Academy of Agriculture, and key State Laboratories. Contents cover all subjects in arts, humanities, social science, as well as in science, technology, engineering, agriculture, medicine and veterinary medicine. The two databases are cross searchable with China Academic Journals on this integrated platform. |
| Trial ends | 22nd May 2013 |
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| Resource | Congressional Quarterly Almanac Online
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| Trial ends | 1st June 2013 |
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| Resource | Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange
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| Description | A resource which explores the history of fifteen significant commodities through a wide range of manuscript materials, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, ephemera, objects and rare books. |
| Trial ends | 20th May 2013 |
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| Resource | Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique - Bibliographie
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| Description | Covering the literature of church history from antiquity up to the 20th centuries , the Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique indexes journal articles, books and reviews. Entries contain links to full text in Brepols publications such as Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques and to some full text journal sources. They are published chiefly in French and English, and occasionally in German. |
| Trial ends | 15th April 2013 |
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| Resource | International Encyclopaedia for the Middle Ages/ Lexikon des Mittelalters
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| Description | Based upon the most important encyclopaedia in the world for medievalists, these two resources for medievalists contain articles written by 3,000 authors covering all aspects of medieval studies within the period 300 to 1500. Their geographical scope covers the whole of Europe, part of the Middle East, and parts of North Africa to document the roots of Western culture and those of its neighbours in the Byzantine, Arab and Jewish worlds. |
| Trial ends | 15th April 2013 |
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| Resource | Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques
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| Description | The Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastiques is an invaluable reference source on the history of the Christian church, with 70,000 entries covering individuals, ecclesiastical institutions, and church history by geographical region. |
| Trial ends | 5th April 2013 |
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| Resource | Bibliographie de Civilisation Médiévale
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| Description | The Bibliographie de civilisation médiévale aims to provide a comprehensive, current bibliography of monographs. The database currently comprises 40,000 titles from 1958 to 2003; i.e. the whole of the relevant elements from the famous bibliography in the Cahiers de civilisation medieval. |
| Trial ends | 5th April 2013 |
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| Resource | Papal Letters Online: Ut per litteras apostolicas..Lettres Pontificales Available on campus, or off campus via the VPN
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| Description | The electronic version of the celebrated Registres et lettres des Papes du XIIIe siècle (32 vols.; Rome, 1883- ) and the Registres et lettres des Papes du XIV e siècle (48 vols.; Rome, 1899- ). Complemented with unpublished information. More than 220,000 documents providing insights into the most varied aspects of medieval society. A valuable resource for researchers of artistic patronage, this database will be useful for History of Art, Divinity and History researchers.
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| Trial runs | 15th April 2013 |
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| Resource | Digital National Security Archive
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| Description | Created in collaboration with the National Security Archive, this database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. |
| Trial ends | 20th March 2013 |
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| Resource | Oxford Scholarship Online - Classical Studies update for 2012-2013
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| Description | Classical Studies titles published up to 2011 have already been purchased. The trial provides access to new titles published in 2012 and any published so far in 2013. There will be 45 new titles available for 2012 and 2013. |
| Trial ends | 12th March 2013 |
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| Resource | Nexis UK
Access on campus via IP. For off campus access, please email esteven2@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
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| Description | Nexis UK provides access to over 23,000 news and business premium sources plus thousands of legal and regulatory services and a 35 year archive. Sources include UK Law journals, Hoover's and Legislative Histories. |
| Trial ends | 31st March 2013 |
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| Resource | WSK Online Available on campus, or off campus via the VPN
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| Description | WSK Online contains specialized dictionaries covering all the major areas of linguistics and communication science. It features precise definitions, encyclopaedic explanations, synonyms and/or antonyms where applicable and detailed bibliographic information.
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| Trial runs | 30th April 2013 |
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| Resource | Nietzsche Online Available on campus, or off campus via the VPN
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| Description | Nietzsche Online provides researchers and readers complete online access to the editions, interpretations and reference works on one of the most important philosophers.
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| Trial runs | 30th April 2013 |
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| Resource | Iskusstvo Kino
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| Description | Iskusstvo kino, established in 1931, is the leading journal of Russian, and formerly Soviet, cinema. Iskusstvo kino includes critical reviews of both domestic and foreign film, as well as scholarly articles on cinematic theory and history as well as the Russian culture and arts scene. It was first published under title Proletarskoe kino(1931-1932), then Sovetskoe kino(1933-1935), and finally under the present name (since 1936). |
| Trial ends | 1st March 2013 |
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| Resource | Stalin Digital Archive
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To access the full text: users within the University IP ranges should be able to register their own personal MySDA accounts (click on "Register" in the top right of the screen at the above URL), and thus access the Document Viewer and MySDA areas of the site.
A user in an authenticated IP range who creates a MySDA profile is automatically sent a confirmation email with a password and a link for a one-time log in. Once logged in, the user can change password to personal preference via the ‘Manage Profile’ page.
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| Description | The SDA contains digitised material from the recently declassified Stalin archive in the holdings of the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History (RGASPI). The total size of the electronic archive will be approximately 28,000 documents, relating to Stalin's personal biography, his work in government, and his conduct of foreign affairs including his foreign policy with German before WWII, the complete wartime correspondence between him and President Franklin Roosevelt as well as his letters to and from intellectuals in major Western countries. The SDA also includes fully-digitized transcriptions of books in Yale's acclaimed Annals of Communism (AOC) series. |
| Trial ends | 12 April 2013 |
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| Resource | ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. Access on campus, or off campus via the VPN
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| Description | Proquest Dissertations & Theses is the world’s most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The database contains over 3 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day and offers full-text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
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| Trial ends | 9th March 2013 |
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| Resource | Proquest Historical Newspapers Access on campus, or off campus via the VPN
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| Description | The trial includes the following newspaper archives - Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003), Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988), Chicago Defender (1910-1975), Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991), Los Angeles Sentinel (1934-2005), New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993), Norfolk Journal and Guide (1921-2003), Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001), Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002).
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| Trial ends | 19 April 2013 |
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| Resource | UK Press Online
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| Description | Newspaper archives to the Daily Mirror (1903-1980); Daily Express ((1900- current); Daily Express (1900- current); Daily Star Sunday (1863-1889); the Watchman (1835-1884); Daily Worker (1930-1945); World War Two (1933-1945), which comprises wartime editions of the Daily Mirror, Daily Express, Fascist Week, Action!, Blackshirt, Yorkshire Post and Daily Worker. This resource includes over 2 million pages of the 19th-20th Century newspaper, from 1835 to today. |
| Trial ends | 24th February 2013 |
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| Resource | Documents on British Policy Overseas
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| Description | Documents on British Policy Overseas provides users with access to a wide range of primary source documents from Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office, shedding light on diplomatic policy and world history throughout the twentieth century. Selected and edited by the official historians of the FCO, Documents on British Policy Overseas includes many documents specifically de-classified for inclusion in the series. The Documents on British Policy Overseas database is produced in collaboration between ProQuest and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Trial ends | 6th April 2013 |
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| Resource | American Periodicals Access on campus, or off campus via the VPN
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| Description | This database contains periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals.
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| Trial ends | 15th March 2013 |
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| Resource | medici.tv Available on campus, or off campus via the VPN
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| Description | One of the largest online audio-visual catalogues of classical music, opera and dance, consisting of a library of contemporary and historic performances, documentaries on composers and artists, and other interesting resources for Music scholars.
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| Trial runs | 28th January – 28th February 2013 |
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| Resource | Oxford Handbooks Online
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| Description | The OHO series contains in-depth, high level scholarly articles from fourteen disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. |
| Trial ends | 14th February 2013 |
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| Resource | Oxford Bibliographies Online
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| Description | OBO is a library of disciplined-based subject modules. In each subject module, there is a literary guide which feature a selective list of bibliographic citations supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult. Each topic has a unique editorial commentary to show how the cited sources are interrelated. |
| Trial ends | 14th February 2013 |
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| Resource | APA PscyNet Access on campus, or off campus via the VPN
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| Description | APA PsycNET provides access to the American Psychological Association's PsycTESTS and PsycTHERAPY. PsycTEST is a repository of ready-to-use tests and measures relevant to psychology and related fields. The PsycTHERAPY database contains more than 300 videos featuring therapy demonstrations showing clinicians working with individuals, couples, and families.
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| Trial ends | 13th February 2013 |
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Word Newspaper Archive: Latin Newspapers, Series I, 1805-1922 & Series II, 1822-1922
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| Word Newspaper Archive: Latin Newspapers, Series I, 1805-1922 provides more than 50 fully searchable Latin American newspapers
published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru,
Venezuela and elsewhere, Latin American Newspapers, 1805-1922,offers unprecedented coverage of the people, issues and events that
shaped this vital region between 1805 and 1922.
Word Newspaper Archive: Latin Newspapers, Series II, 1822-1922 provides issues from more than 250 additional titles, this online series includes newspapers published in English, Spanish and Portuguese from 20 countries, including some countries and cities not represented in the inaugural collection of Latin American Newspapers. Together, both series of Latin American Newspapers offer unprecedented coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped this vital area during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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| Trial ends | 10th January 2013 |
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| Resource | Confidential Print, Latin America 1833-1969
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| Description | The documents of Confidential Print: Latin America cover the whole of South and Central America, plus the non-British islands of the Caribbean, from just after the final Spanish withdrawal from mainland America in the 1820s to the height of the Cold War in the 1960s. Covering revolutions, territorial changes and political movements, foreign financial interests, industrial and infrastructural development (including the building of the Panama Canal), wars, slavery, immigration from Europe and relations with indigenous peoples, amongst other topics, the files in this title form a vital resource for any scholar of Latin American history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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| Trial ends | 30th November 2012 |
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| Resource | PEP Web - Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing
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| Description | PEP is a digital archive of many of the major works of psychoanalysis including 46 fulltext psychoanalytic journals, complete versions of seventy classic psychoanalytic texts and all twenty-four volumes of the Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, the German Freud Standard Edition, "Gesammelte Werke" and all the included Editorial Notes.
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| Trial ends | 30th November 2012 |
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| Resource | Zassaku-Plus
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This is an index database for Japanese magazines and periodicals from the Meiji Era to the present.
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| Trial ends | 2 October 2012 |
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| Resource | JISC MediaHub
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| Description | Free-at-the-point-of-use images, video and audio content licensed for educational and research use accessed from a single interface. Collections included cover a range of subject areas.
Includes access to Getty Images and a range of newsreels including, ITN, Gaumont, British Paramount, Channel 4 and Reuters. Also material from Imperial War Museum, Wellcome Library, Royal Geographical Society & St George's Hospital Medical School as well as Art & Design collections.
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| Trial ends | 31 July 2012 |
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This article was published on May 20, 2013
