Product Trials

Twice a year, Cooperative Purchasing & Electronic Resources Services (CPERS) spotlights e-resources that we've just started offering (Credo Reference; HAPI: Hispanic Articles Periodical Index; Marshall Cavendish); e-resources that are a group subscription (MLA, Philosopher's Index); new e-resources (Alexander Street Press American History in Video, EBSCO Footnote); e-resources that have been revamped with a new interface or new content; or e-resources that librarians have brought to our attention. Try out a new e-resource! Visit the CPERS Fall Trials Web site for product descriptions, trial access information, and contact information.

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Twice a year, Cooperative Purchasing & Electronic Resources Services (CPERS) spotlights e-resources that we've just started offering (Credo Reference; HAPI: Hispanic Articles Periodical Index; Marshall Cavendish); e-resources that are a group subscription (MLA, Philosopher's Index); new e-resources (Alexander Street Press American History in Video, EBSCO Footnote); e-resources that have been revamped with a new interface or new content; or e-resources that librarians have brought to our attention. Try out a new e-resource! Visit the CPERS Fall Trials Web site for product descriptions, trial access information, and contact information.

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Gale is offering free trials of many of its databases to Minitex libraries from now until May 29, 2009. Included in the trials are their newest databases: Global Issues in Context, Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online, and Something About the Author Online. Global Issues in Context received a glowing review in School Library Journal; it's well worth a test browse/search.

The trials are all available here: http://access.gale.com//minitex_trial/

Please contact CPERS for pricing and ordering information.

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In April, Gale will be hosting two informational webinars for Minitex members on their digital newspaper archives: Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers and The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985. The same information will be covered in both sessions. Here are the webinar details:

Host: Scott Dawson – Product Manager, Gale Digital Collections
Call Title: MINITEX Overview of Digital Collections
Call Date: Thursday, April 16th
Call Time: 2:00 PM Central
Confirmation Number: 18301695
Primary Dial-In: 866-394-9513
Passcode: 7830 545#
To join the web conference: http://web.meetme.net/r.aspx?p=2&a=7054183016959
For a current list of alternate numbers: http://web.meetme.net/r.aspx?p=6&a=7054183016959

Host: Scott Dawson – Product Manager, Gale Digital Collections
Call Title: MINITEX Overview of Digital Collections
Call Date: Wednesday, April 29th
Call Time: 11:00 AM Central
Confirmation Number: 18301695
Primary Dial-In: 866-394-9513
Passcode: 7830 545#
To join the web conference: http://web.meetme.net/r.aspx?p=2&a=7054183016959
For a current list of alternate numbers: http://web.meetme.net/r.aspx?p=6&a=7054183016959

For more information on the archives and a link to the trials, please continue reading after the jump.

Continue reading "Gale Digital Newspaper Archives April Webinars" »

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From March 1 through April 30, Gale is offering trials on two digital newspaper archives: Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers and The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985.

Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers features digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of 19th century U.S. newspapers as well as advanced searching capabilities. For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement, and illustration.

The Times Digital Archive, 1785-1985, allows researchers to search through the complete digital edition of The Times (London), using keyword searching and hit-term highlighting to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements, and illustrations/photos divided into categories to facilitate searching.

For access to the newspaper archives trials, as well as product summaries and title lists, click http://access.gale.com/minitex.

Please contact CPERS for pricing and ordering information.

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from EBSCO:

Dear EBSCO Customer,

We are very pleased to extend this opportunity to try a brand new database:  Research Starters - Education, designed to complement subject-specific EBSCOhost databases, and to assist students researching top areas of academic study. 

Because you already subscribe to one of these products (Academic Search Elite, Premier or Complete, Academic Source Premier or Complete, Associates Programs Source, Associates Programs Source Plus, Education Research Complete, Vocational Studies Complete, Vocational Studies Premier), Research Starters - Education will be available to you for the 2008/2009 school year at no charge, on an opt-in basis.

Key Features of Research Starters - Education:

• Convenient 3,000-word topic overviews with concise, yet comprehensive content 
• Overview information on 500 topics parallel to course offerings at major colleges and universities, with links to key articles in associated EBSCO databases
• Content designed to be appropriate for advanced high school and two/four-year college students, public libraries and selected schools
• Quality study guides written by highly qualified professors, school administrators, consultants, educators and professional writers

For more information on this exciting new product, please see this FAQ (http://support.ebscohost.com/knowledge_base/detail.php?id=4084).  To begin your free trial of Research Starters - Education, please complete this form:  (http://support.ebscohost.com/contact/research_starters.php)  Note:  To allow 3-4 weeks for processing, please don't delay! 

Visit EBSCO's Support Site (http://support.ebscohost.com) to learn about new features, search among thousands of FAQs, download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides, or communicate with Technical Support at any time, using the EBSCO Support Form (http://support.ebscohost.com/contact/askus.php).

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Now through November 28, MINITEX is highlighting the following vendors/products during the Fall 2008 trial period:

* Alexander Street Press (new products)

* BioOne (upcoming January group renewal)

* CQ Press (new product)

* EBSCO (new products, upcoming January group renewal)

* ProQuest (new products, upcoming January group renewal)

See CPERS 2008 Fall Trials for links to the trials and more information.

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from the Gale InfoTrac listserv

Dear Valued Customers: Gale is pleased to provide you with free access to some of our core databases, to help your users find the authoritative information they need when they need it. This has been an exciting year for Gale, as a number of our databases have seen tremendous improvements in both content and technology. Our Health and Wellness Resource Center, Biography Resource Center and History Resource Center all have new interfaces and significant new content. Gale's Literature Resource Center and its unmatched content is now on a new platform and cross-searchable with MLA, LitFinder and the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Both Academic and General OneFile are now the world's largest two periodical resources and they are cross-searchable, giving you access to more than 18,000 periodicals. Business and Company Resource Center recently was updated to include real-time financials, investment information, podcasts and blogs.

Please use the link below to access these databases for the next two weeks, free of charge.

And, as always, please let us know how we can help serve you better.

http://trials.gale.com/public/go/?key=1353_22222

Nader M. Qaimari
Senior Director
Gale, a cengage Learning company
248-699-8139 (Office)
248-761-7095 (Mobile)

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Now through October 31, MINITEX is highlighting the following vendors/products during the Fall 2007 trial period:

• Accunet


• Alexander Street Press


• CountryWatch


• EBSCO


• Gale


• H.W. Wilson


• ProQuest/Serials Solutions


• Rosen Publishing (New Vendor)

See CPERS 2007 Fall Trials for links to the trials and more information.

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MINITEX is highlighting the following vendors / products during the Fall 2006 trial period:

• AccuNet / AP Multimedia Archive
  
• Alexander Street Press
  
• Blackwell Publishing Journal Collections
  
• CSA
  
• EBSCO
  
• Facts on File News Services
  
• Gale Products for the K-12 Market
  
• Grolier Online Products
  
• H.W. Wilson
  
• NewsBank
  
• Ovid
  
• ProQuest
  
• Turnitin Educational Suite

Contact Chris Kline if you'd like more information about these trials.

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Watch this site for information about the Fall 2006 trials beginning on October 1 and continuing through November 15, 2006. Use the fall trial time to learn about new online resources, compare products, and try out new search interfaces.

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