Database Trials

DATABASE TRIAL: British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900

British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900 focuses on the two centuries of Britain’s colonial, missionary, commercial and literary relations with Africa and the Americas. The database contains 14 collections of rare primary source documents, with the total number of images at almost 300,000. British Records on the Atlantic World,

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Trial of Waters & Oceans Worldwide Database

Waters & Oceans Worldwide combines databases on all facets of international water research. Included in this collection are records from the now-ceased database Marine, Oceanographic and Freshwater Resources (MOFR), plus six of the world’s major water resource databases, including WATERLIT, The Freshwater Biological Association Library Catalogue, The International Water Management

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The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monograph Collection – Trial Access through June 30

The American Theological Library Association (ATLA) Historical Monograph Collection, Series 1: 13th Century-1893, and Series 2: 1894-1923. These ATLA collections contain more than 29,000 titles focused on religion and theology. Series 1 contains over 5 million pages of content and consists of titles from the 13th Century through the 1893

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Cambridge Books Online Trial

Cambridge University Press is one of the largest and most prestigious academic publishers in the world and publishes scholarly journals and books for subjects as diverse as astronomy, Shakespeare studies, economics, mathematics and politics. Cambridge Books Online provides desktop access to thousands of books published by Cambridge. Trial access to

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Trial of Readers’ Guide Retrospective Available

Readers’ Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America. Over 3 million articles from approximately 375 leading magazines are indexed. Coverage for the database includes the years 1890 through 1982. The

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Electronic Books from Springer Publishing on Trial

This trial covers all Springer eBook Collections for copyright years 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 including nearly 10,000 eBooks and eReference Works, and is available until the end of October. The titles included cover a wide range of subject areas, with emphasis on science, technology, and medicine. Titles we

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GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)

GREENR focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment. Both interactive and current, GREENR allows users to navigate issue, organization and country portals. This resource provides news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents and statistics in the categories of energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population,

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