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Aluka
Aluka is a not-for-profit international collaboration of educational and cultural institutions focused on building a high-quality scholarly resource of materials from and about Africa. It provides collections comprising the African Plants content area that are already available and materials in the African Cultural Heritage Sites and Landscapes content area. This content area contains multiple collections of visual, spatial, and historical material about key cultural and historical sites and landscapes in Africa, a number of which have been designated by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites, including:
- Kilwa Kisiwani-a medieval city on an off-shore island in Tanzania
- Lalibela, Ethiopia-capital of the Zagwe Dynasty and famous for its rock-hewn churches
- Asante Temples located at Besease and Patakro, Ghana
- Djenné and Timbuktu, Mali - celebrated for their mosques in Sudanic style
- A preliminary collection of digitized photographs of African Rock Art
Columbia Gazetteer of the World
The Columbia Gazetteer of the World is an encyclopedia of geographical places and features. I provides an assemblage of alphabetically ordered listings of places or physical/cultural features and includes descriptions along with the listings. The Columbia Gazetteer website features advanced search options, re-sortable search results that you can download, and a new home page.
Trial expires 12/31/2008.
Environment Complete
Provides deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1,125 active core titles). The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs.
Guide to Reference
The Guide to Reference, formerly Guide to Reference Books, has a long history in print as a core publication of librarianship in the United States. With its searchable, browsable, internally and externally linked database, its distributed compilation and editing, and its interactive features, the online Guide includes more than 16,000 trusted go-to sources and offers guidance in the form of introductory essays and annotations for entries.
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Trial expires February 16, 2009
Historic Map Works Library Edition
Historic Map Works Library Edition is one of the most extensive digital map collections available, with over 200,000 antique and historic maps. It provides unprecedented access to high-resolution, full color maps spanning hundreds of years that help researchers trace the "residential genealogy" of families and locations over time. Use these to uncover clues about land ownership, historical structures, property boundaries, community growth, topography, and more.
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Trial expires 12/23/2008
Informe
Created exclusively for Spanish-speaking users, this full-text electronic reference tool is the first system to provide indexing, images and full text of popular Hispanic magazines -- not just translations. Also included is a thesaurus and interface that are uniquely designed for Spanish-speaking users. Informe thinks through every query in Spanish. Terms and thesaurus are based on the expressions Spanish-speakers commonly use, allowing users to easily navigate through the database without experiencing inaccurate search terms. ¡Informe! also features title annotations in both English and Spanish to help non-Spanish speaking staff to easily assist users. Students of Spanish, as well as non-native speakers can also easily access Informe's resources through this bilingual approach.
Gender Studies Database
Images of American Civil War
Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera provides a vivid visual history of a nation in crisis. Thousands of dramatic images from the fields of battle, politics, and general society allow students and researchers to experience the events, both monumental and mundane, of the war that tested and defined the core meaning of America. The database currently holds over 1400 images.
Trial expires December 14, 2008
LGBT Life with Full Text
LGBT Life with Full Text contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for more than 100 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 110 full-text monographs and books. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,400 terms.
North American Indian Thought and Culture
This fifth release of North American Indian Thought and Culture contains over 119,000 pages of text and images. Included are biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories. When complete North American Indian Thought and Culture will include 123,000 pages of text and images.
Trial expires December 14, 2008
Opera in Video
Opera in Video will contain 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon. This release includes 41 videos, equalling 81 hours.
Trial expires December 14, 2008
ProQuest Historical Newspapers Black Newspapers Collection
ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers provide cultural perspective and insight to events that shaped the United States in the twentieth century. From the beginnings of the protest movement to end segregation to the ongoing challenges involving affirmative action and racial profiling, Black Newspapers provides a record of social change spanning almost a century from the perspective of those most effected by racism in American life. Covering major events to everyday life, these titles are invaluable research tools for studying American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and art.
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Trial expires 12/23/2008
South and Southern Asian Literature
South and Southeast Asian Literature is a searchable collection of fiction and poetry written in English by authors from South and Southeast Asia and their Diasporas. Focusing on works composed during the late-colonial and postcolonial eras, the collection will also feature author interviews and manuscript materials that will shed additional light on the rich literary heritage and emerging traditions of this region. New content is uploaded on a biweekly basis, giving users immediate access to a steadily growing treasury of classic, rare, and contemporary literature.
Trial expires December 14, 2008
Theater in Video
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all. This release contains 279 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.
Trial expires December 14, 2008
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