Finding Information: Trial Databases


Trial Databases

Art Museum Image Gallery
Subject Area: Art, Art History
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Description: The Art Museum Image Gallery is a rich digital resource of art images and related multimedia gathered from the collections of distinguished museums around the world. The Art Museum Image Gallery can be searched alone or simultaneously with other WilsonWeb databases, including Art Full Text, Art Index Retrospective, and Biography Reference Bank.  It is a rich digital resource of art images, right-cleared for educational use.


The ARTstor Digital Library
Subject Area: Art, Art History
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Description: Approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. Register for an account to create your own image groups, add notes, download the offline presentation software (see OIV document attached), and access ARTstor remotely. To register, a user needs to provide an email address and password of their choice.


CountryWatch
Subject Area: Politics
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Username and Password: bmcc
Description: Country-specific intelligence and data through its suite of products to over 4000 clients including public and private sector organizations with overseas operations and global interests.

Current Issues in Health
Subject Area: Health
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Description: Current Issues in Health presents a carefully selected database of full-text articles from key publications covering a variety of current health issues. The topics are chosen to make up a well-rounded overview, and are then organized into subtopics to help users see the complexity of the larger issue. The database features current articles with periodic updates, plus the option for users to do further research with predetermined searches within WilsonWeb or on the Internet.


The Making of the Modern World
Subject Area: History
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Description: The Making of the Modern World digital collection presents more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. In almost 12 million pages, it focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing. The Making of the Modern World offers multiple benefits to today’s researchers and students who recognize the significance and value of conducting research online, such as the opportunity to explore topics and concepts revealed through author, title, and subject searches, as well as full-text searching and highlighting, including fuzzy logic to broaden or narrow searches. With full-text searching across titles, researchers can quickly access a magnificent library of primary source materials, allowing concepts and facts to be retrieved and correlated in a manner unimaginable through traditional means.


Naxos Music Library
Subject Area: Music
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Description: World’s largest Classical music listening service designed for students, instructors and patrons of public and academic libraries. Includes over 270,000 tracks of music from the Naxos label and other independent labels.


Ovid Journals
Subject Area: Nursing, Allied Health, Sciences
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Description:Ovid provides access to thousands of high-end medicine, science, and nursing journals, including the American Journal of Nursing. Available until the end of May.


Oxford African American Studies Center
Subject Area: History, African American Studies
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Description: The Oxford African American Studies Center combines the authority of carefully edited reference works with sophisticated technology to create the most comprehensive collection of scholarship available online to focus on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture. The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 7,500 articles by top scholars in the field.