Silent Film Online

This resource was on trial and has been acquired by the Baylor Libraries.

PsycEXTRA

Produced by the American Psychological Association, PsycEXTRA is a bibliographic and full-text companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database. The document types included in PsycEXTRA consist of technical, annual and government reports, conference papers, newsletters, magazines, newspapers, consumer brochures and more. PsycEXTRA complements PsycINFO and the other APA databases with extensive coverage of gray literature relating to psychology and the behavioral sciences; it contains around 200,000 records that are not indexed in any other APA database. Furthermore, content from the Archives of the History of American Psychology (AHAP) collection is expected to increase the number of records substantially.

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Trial expires: Sunday, June 30, 2013

NBC Learn Higher Ed

This resource was on trial and has been acquired by the Baylor University Libraries.

March of Time

From 1935–1967, American theatergoers and television watchers were witness to Time Inc.’s unique and controversial film series, The March of Time®. Now, for the first time, this groundbreaking series is available in online streaming video in a single, cross-searchable collection designed specifically to meet the needs of researchers, teaching faculty, and students. The videos have been restored to their original luster by HBO Archives.

Like all Alexander Street online video collections, this resource include unique tools for teaching and research.

• Synchronized, searchable transcripts run alongside each video
• Visual tables of contents let you quickly scan each video
• Rich playlist functionality lets users create, annotate, and organize clips and include links to other content
• Permanent URLs let users cite and share whole videos, playlists, and custom clips
• An embeddable video player lets libraries and instructors deliver video content to other users on secure Web site pages or via course management systems
• Permissions for in-class, on-campus, and remote-access viewing are all included in the terms of the subscription

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Trial expires: Saturday, June 02, 2012

Duke University Press Journals Online

Provides online access to the full text of 42 humanities and social science journals.

NBC Learn

NBC Learn, the education arm of NBC News, makes the global resources of NBC News and the historic film and video archive available to teachers, students, schools and universities. This website consists of NBC News Archives on demand for both K-12 and higher education. The Implementation Toolkit can provide tips on incorporating NBC Learn into the classroom. This trial has also been integrated into Baylor’s Blackboard system. Refer to this guide for information on using the NBC Learn Building Block.

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Trial expires: Friday, April 13, 2012

Last year, EBSCO Publishing bought HW Wilson.  EBSCO is in the process of migrating all Wilson databases to the EBSCOhost platform.  The following Wilson databases acquired by the Baylor University Libraries have been moved to the EBSCOhost platform:

• Art Index Retrospective
• Book Review Digest Retrospective
• Education Index Retrospective
• Essay and General Literature Index Retrospective
• Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
• Play Index
• Readers’ Guide Retrospective
• Short Story Index Retrospective

The remaining Wilson databases should be migrated to the EBSCOhost platform before the end of February 2012, and include the following resources acquired by the Baylor University Libraries:

• Children’s Core Collection
• Fiction Core Collection
• Middle and Junior High Core Collection
• Public Library Core Collection Nonfiction
• Senior High Core Collection

Web of Knowledge — Book Citation Index

The Book Citation Index has been added to our Web of Knowledge subscription for a trial period. To use this feature, click on the “Cited Reference Search” link and complete the search form. Just below the search form you will see “Citation Databases” with a “+” to the left. click on that plus to view the options that allow you to narrow your cited search to books or chapters in books.

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Trial expires: Thursday, December 15, 2011

Oxford Bibliographies Online — Communication

This subset of Oxford Bibliographies Online offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on the study of communication as a multidisciplinary effort to understand the constant, varied, and complex transmission and exchange of information, knowledge, and ideas.

ACLS Humanities E-book

This resource was on trial and has now been acquired by the Baylor Libraries.