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October/November
The AU Library has trial access to the databases listed below. As part of the evaluation process, we would like to receive comments from library patrons about the usefulness of these databases. Comments can be submitted in the box at the bottom of the page. When you select the link for the database, the database will open in a new window, allowing you to easily return to this window to submit comments.
Access to the electronic indexes listed on this page from off-campus is limited to current Anderson University faculty, students and staff who connect to the Internet through the Anderson University Internet service.
Coverage dates: Indexing 1982+, Abstracting 1984+, “select” Full Text 1994+
Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition dramatically expands your periodical resources with electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from thousands of sources (Full text of articles from over 1,750 publications and article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications). Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad. Users have access to information on virtually any subject.
Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition contains everything (all the indexing, abstracting, and full text) that is contained in these six Wilson databases:
- Education Full Text
- General Science Full Text
- Humanities Full Text
- Readers' Guide Full Text
- Social Sciences Full Text
- Wilson Business Full Text
Note: Indexing and abstracting for all articles in journals covered by these six databases, whether or not they include full text, is included in OmniFile.
In addition, Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition presents complete indexing, abstracting, and full text from all of the journals in the five databases below to which Wilson has full text rights. Indexing and abstracting is present for all articles from those journals without regard to whether or not we have the full text for that particular article.
- Applied Science & Technology Full Text
- Art Full Text
- Biological & Agricultural Index Plus
- Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text
- Library Literature & Information Science Full Text
Plunkett Research Online
Plunkett Research online is a leading provider of industry sector analysis and research. The database contains a multitude of information from their entire line of printed material, neatly organized with tools and search engines enhanced to perform online. Plunkett Research is an ideal online subscription business database for libraries of all sizes to provide market analysis, industry trends, and excellent job search tools for students and faculty. This database, according to Plunkett Research, is generally more cost effective, easier to navigate, and better organized.
Access Trial through http://www.plunkettresearch.com/subscribers.aspx
Username: au
Password: trial
Literature Criticism Online
Thomson Gale™ takes literature, history and culture to the next level with the largest, most extensive compilation of literary commentary available: Literature Criticism Online. Imagine centuries of analysis — the scholarly and popular commentary from broadsheets, pamphlets, encyclopedias, books and periodicals — delivered in an easy-to-use 24/7 online format that matches the exact look and feel of the print originals. The net result is tens of thousands of hard-to-find essays at your fingertips. It’s all designed to raise the level of research while providing the around-the-clock remote access that today’s researchers demand.
Access Trial through October 15, 2007
http://access.gale.com/pubacd/
login: online
password: advocacy
Readex- Early American Newspapers Series 1, 1690-1876
The trial information follows:
URL: http://infoweb.newsbank.com
The trial starts today, September 28, 2007 and will run through October 31, 2007.
Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876
(http://www.readex.com/readex/product.cfm?product=10)
Focuses largely on the 18th century and contains more than 650 newspapers listed in Clarence S. Brigham’s History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820. Early American Newspapers, Series I (EAN I) was completed in March 2006. The collection is based on Clarence Brigham's newspaper bibliography but also includes titles not in his bibliography (titles that began publication after 1820). The colonial and early national newspapers collected by American Antiquarian Society founder Isaiah Thomas form the core of this collection, which has been supplemented by newspapers later collected by the Society. Additional issues from numerous esteemed institutions and historical societies round out the digital edition of EAN. The completed EAN I collection contains: 718 titles; 346,395 issues; and 1,512,979 pages.
Morningstar® Library Edition offers libraries a solution for investment research. Patrons have access to many popular Premium features of Morningstar.com, including research and independent opinions on thousands of stocks and mutual funds
http://library.morningstar.com/Membership/setup.html
Username: andersonsc
Password: library
Early American Newspapers Series I (1690-1876). Excellent for History, Literature/English, African American Studies, Religion, Business, Women's Studies, and Political Science. The trial will run through October 31, 2007.
Go to (http://www.readex.com/readex/product.cfm?product=10) No user name or password needed. On campus access only.
Focuses largely on the 18th century and contains 718 titles; 346,395 issues; and 1,512,979 pages.
For more information go to http://infoweb.newsbank.com