Books and Authors

This database lists over 100,000 recommended fiction and non-fiction book titles, many with plot summaries and awards information. Search by genre, subject, author, title, series, and more. Includes author biographies. Use “My Reading Room” to create, maintain and share lists of your favorite authors or titles or your own written book reviews.

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Trial expires: Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Eighteenth Century Journals Portal

This resource was on trail in spring 2011 and is on trial again.

Portal to newspapers and periodicals c1685-1815 offers integrated access to the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Eighteenth Century Journals I), the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center University of Texas (Eighteenth Century Journals II) and the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London and the Cambridge University Library (Eighteenth Century Journals III) and Chetham’s Library, Manchester and Brotherton Library, University of Leeds (Eighteenth Century Journals IV), and more. Note: The “download entire document in PDF” option is not available during trials. However, users can still view and print images from the collections.

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Trial expires: Tuesday, October 09, 2012

Material ConneXion

A unique and comprehensive resource comprised of more than 4,500 materials and processes. The information, including high-quality photographs, and company/vendor contact information is also placed into a database that can be accessed online, providing users with the ability to search all of the materials by keyword, material type, manufacturer name, manufacturer location, etc.

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Trial expires: Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Digitalia

With an interface in English and Spanish Digitalia offers a large catalog of e-book titles from Spanish publishers and selected magazines in digital format.

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Trial expires: Thursday, October 04, 2012

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports

FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world.

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Trial expires: Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports 1957-1994

This unique collection — fully searchable for the first time — features English translations of foreign-language monographs, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts from regions throughout the world. With an emphasis on communist and developing countries, this resource contains a wealth of hard-to-find scientific, technical, and social science materials translated from many languages.

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Trial expires: Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Silent Film Online

Films in this collection represent the foundation of modern cinematic technique and film theory. Silent Film Online covers silent feature films, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s. It includes the most complete, authoritative versions of the highest quality from leading distributors. Whether through D.W. Griffith’s pioneering use of cross-cutting in Birth of a Nation, Robert Wiene’s experimentation with unusual camera angles and complex stage settings in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, or Eisenstein’s demonstration of the power of montage in his editing of the Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin, these films show us the origins of the narrative language of cinema that we know today.

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Trial expires: Tuesday, October 23, 2012

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

Classical Music in Video

This resource will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video — approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world. This release contains 435 video titles totaling 219 hours.

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Trial expires: Sunday, May 20, 2012

London Review of Books

Since 1979, the London Review of Books has stood up for the tradition of the literary and intellectual essay in English. Each issue contains up to 15 long reviews and essays by academics, writers and journalists. There are also shorter art and film reviews, as well as poems and a lively letters page. A typical issue moves through political commentary to science or ancient history by way of literary criticism and social anthropology.

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Trial expires: Tuesday, May 15, 2012