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Trial Databases
Throughout the year University Libraries offers trial access to a number of research databases and collections. Access our trial databases and collections below. When available, trial period is indicated in the description. Feel free to use the 'rate this item' feature via the five stars next to each title link. Your Feedback is appreciated!
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- American Periodicals Series (APS) Online
American Periodicals Series Online 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. TRIAL RUNS THROUGH MARCH 5, 2012. - ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Black Newspapers
Primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Examine major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights, and explore everyday life as written in the Chicago Defender, The Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Los Angeles Sentinel, Atlanta Daily World, The Norfolk Journal and Guide, and The Philadelphia Tribune. TRIAL RUNS THROUGH MARCH 5, 2012. - ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945) The Atlanta Constitution (1868-1942) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Get first-hand accounts of one of the most turbulent periods in American history: post-Civil War reconstruction. TRIAL RUNS THROUGH MARCH 5, 2012.
- Oxford Handbooks Online The complete texts of the prestigious Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion. 3,400+ in-depth essays by the world's leading scholars. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline and unpacks it, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda for how those debates might evolve. TRIAL RUNS THROUGH FEB 24, 2012.
- 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers Digital archive of nearly 1,270 newspapers and news pamphlets from the United Kingdom. Collected by the Rev. Charles Burney, this unique collection represents the largest single archive of 17th and 18th century news media available from the British Library. TRIAL RUNS THROUGH MARCH 12, 2012.
- 19th Century British Library Newspapers Comprehensive collection of national and regional newspapers of Victorian Britain. The archive includes 70 papers originating in England, Scotland and Ireland, carefully selected by an editorial board from the British Library and providing a broad yet detailed view of British life in the 19th century. The collection is made up of daily and weekly publications and reflects Britain's growing role as a superpower in the 19th century world. TRIAL RUNS THROUGH MARCH 12, 2012.
- Making of the Modern World (1450-1914) Collection of 66,000 books and primary sources, including reports, correspondence, speeches, and surveys, that explore the dynamics of Western trade and wealth that shaped the world from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century. Covers social, economic, and business history, as well as political science, technology, industrialization, philosophy, law, gender studies, slavery, colonization, Atlantic world and Latin American/Caribbean studies. TRIAL RUNS THROUGH MARCH 12, 2012.
- Sabin Americana: 1500-1926 Online collection of over 29,000 books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Includes original accounts of discovery & exploration, pioneering & westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War, Native Americans, slavery & abolition, and religious history. Covering a span of 400 years in North, Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean. TRIAL RUNS THROUGH MARCH 12, 2012.
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