Category: Resource Trials

TRIAL: Full Access to New York Times Website Now Available Through the Library

Posted on by Geoffrey Ross

TRIAL OVER

For most up-to-date information, please visit this page: https://faq.library.illinois.edu/faq/151721 .

For the first time ever, the Library is able to provide access to all articles, images, videos, audio files, blogs, and user-generated content from the New York Times website (NYTimes.com). Explore 19 sections, 35 blogs, 15 video channels, full-color facsimiles of today’s front page from every New York Times print edition (New York, National, Europe, and Asia), as well as a host of additional content, most of which was was previously unavailable through the Library’s subscription. Users must first register from a campus computer, using a valid @illinois.edu email address. If you’re on campus now, click here to claim your free Pass, or Contact us if you have any questions. The video to the left demos some of the features of this new resource, and provides step-by-step instructions for claiming a Pass.

Trial Over.

TRIAL: South Asia Archive

Posted on by Geoffrey Ross

We have a 30 Day Trial to a new digital collection of books, journals, reports, government documents, and other print publications from South Asia. Strongest in its coverage of the 19th and 20th centuries. Most publications in English, with some Bengali and Sanskrit. Trial ends October 1st. Please send feedback on this digital collection to hpnl@library.illinois.edu .

Trial over.

TRIAL: Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1

Posted on by Geoffrey Ross

The Arte Público Hispanic Historical Collection comprises books, newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets, broadsides, and other historical records that document the Latino/Latina experience in the United States from colonial times to 1960. More information. Please send feedback to Professor Lisa Romero, subject specialist for Latino/Latina studies.

TRIAL OVER.

ProQuest Newsstand Trial

Posted on by Geoffrey Ross

Full text access to recent issues of over 800 newspapers, news magazines, wire services, and news transcripts from around the world. Includes over 80 titles from newspaper publishing giant Gannet, including the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Des Moines Register, the Detroit Free Press, and the Indianapolis Star.

Trial Over.

TRIAL: American History in Video

Posted on by Geoffrey Ross

Now on trial through December 31, 2011. A digital collection of newsreels (commercial and governmental), archival footage, public affairs footage, and documentary films. Includes global coverage of the 20th century, though from an American perspective. Videos were sourced from the Works Progress Administration, the Black Panther Party Library, the Library of Congress, United Newsreel, Universal Newsreel, Chronoscope, United States Information Agency, National Archives and Records Administration, and more. Please send us feedback on the value of this collection to your research!

[Update: Purchased.]

TRIAL: Oxford Bibliographies Online

Posted on by Geoffrey Ross

[Update: trial over.] Now on trial through December, 2011. Collection of annotated bibliographies, and bibliographic essays, compiled and written by scholars. Covers Atlantic History, Renaissance and Reformation, Medieval Studies, Classics, Philosophy, Biblical Studies, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islamic Studies. Bibliographies are detailed and extensive. The Bibliography on Atlantic History, for example, comprises 100 sub-topics. Please send us feedback on the value of this collection to your research!

20th Century American Newspapers (Trial)

Posted on by Geoffrey Ross

[Update: trial over.] Now on trial through October 31. Part of America’s Historical Newspapers from Readex, this collection includes ten titles: Dallas Morning News (1923-1981), Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle (1923-1993), Mobile (Alabama) Register (1970-1987), Times Picayune (1837-1981), Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times (1923-1993), Cleveland Plain Dealer (1923-1990), Portland Oregonian (1923-1974), Seattle Daily Times (1923-1984), Springfield (Massachusetts) Republican (1923-1946), and Springfield (Massachusetts) Union (1947-1971). Please send us feedback on the value of this collection to your research!