Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
ProQuest is offering free access this week to their ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source (PQNAHS) file in celebration of both International Nurses Day 2012 (May 12) and the American Nurses Association’s 2012 National Nurses Week (May 6 -12). This file indexes and abstracts over 1,070 health-related titles, including the full-text for nearly 900 journals [...]
This is so cool I’m wriggling with glee on my sofa as I write the post — Alexander Street Press is letting e-Views’ readers brief trial The March of Time® film series, which they’ve recently made available in online streaming video in a single, cross-searchable collection (for more background check out this Wikipedia article about the series). [...]
Alexander Street Press’ Women and Social Movements, International — 1840 to Present is “a collection of primary source materials from over 300 repositories around the world, including letters, diaries, unpublished manuscripts, conference proceedings (a major portion of the file), journals, memoirs, photographs, ephemera, and national committee reports, accompanied by scholarly essays for historical context. The [...]
ProQuest’s free database this month is Periodicals Archive Online, an online archive of full-image digitized journal articles in the international scholarly literature of the humanities and social sciences from 1802 to 2000. The file contains over 2.8 million articles on 14 million pages, with 20% of the journals in non-English languages. To get the free [...]
Would you like to have free online access right now to verse manuscripts by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Hartley Coleridge; Mary Wordsworth’s Memorandum and Journal of a Tour on the Continent; Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere diaries and her journals including Recollections of a Tour in Scotland; verse manuscripts and letters by William Wordsworth, Mary [...]
So I was noodling online today while on the reference desk in Widener, and came across ProQuest’s Database of the Month: the ProQuest Natural Science Collection. It’s a full-text file that brings together in one “place” all these ProQuest titles along with the ProQuest Illustrata™: Natural Sciences indexing resource: ProQuest Agricultural Science Collection, ProQuest Aquatic [...]
The Beacham Group has graciously given e-Views readers a 90-day free trial of their new file, TRAC: Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium. Just go to http://www.trackingterrorism.org/preview-trac to begin your 90-day trial. My thanks to Walton Beacham and Beth Dempsey for setting this trial up. Hope you all try this out — it looks like quite [...]
The Presidential Recordings of Lyndon B. Johnson Digital Edition (PRLBJ) just won the Association of American Publishers’ 2011 PROSE Award for Best eProduct in the Humanities, and CHOICE magazine named it an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011. PRLBJ is published by Rotunda, the digital imprint of University of Virginia Press, in collaboration with UVA’s Miller [...]
“The Vogue Archive from ProQuest offers online the fully searchable entire run of the U.S. edition of Vogue magazine from its first issue in 1892 to the current month. Every page, advertisement, cover, and fold-out is included, indexed, and reproduced in high-resolution color images, and the online indexing lets you find images by Fashion Item [...]
Rosen Publishing’s new PowerKids Earth & Space Science database is “a content-driven, visually stimulating, and media-rich online science resource specifically designed for learners in grades 3 to 6,” (from the Rosen site), while Gareth Stevens Publishing’s Transitions to Literacy program is “a state-of-the-art literacy-skills development program for emergent readers in grades pre-K, K, and 1… [...]
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