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Trial subscription until July 15, 2009. (Let us know what you think.)

Cambridge Collections Online offers subject or theme based collections of content within a richly functional, fully cross-searchable online environment. The Complete Cambridge Companions is available as a complete collection and as two sub-collections comprising the Cambridge Companions in Literature and Classics and the Cambridge Companions in Philosophy, Religion and Culture.

Each collection is updated with new Companions on publication. The latest Companions update was in May 2009.  The new additions are as follows:

• The Companions to Literature and Classics
  Mackay, The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of World War II
  Moody/O’Quinn, The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre, 1730-1830
  Cronk, The Cambridge Companion to Voltaire
• The Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture
  Louie, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture
  Shuffelton, The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Jefferson
  Norton/Taylor, The Cambridge Companion to Hume (2nd edition)
  Hodge/Radick, The Cambridge Companion to Darwin (2nd edition)
  Manning, The Cambridge Companion to Paul Tillich
  Ker/Merrigan, The Cambridge Companion to John Henry Newman

Trial subscription until June 22, 2009. (Let us know what you think.)

Counseling and Therapy in Video provides a searchable online collection of videos available for the study of counseling, psychology, and psychotherapy. When complete this site will include “400 hours and more than 330 videos to allow students, teachers and professionals to see, experience and study counseling in ways never before possible.” The types of videos include:

• Counseling Sessions and Demonstrations
• Consultations
• Lectures, presentations, and interviews
• Teaching and Discussion Guides
• Continuing Education (C.E) Credits

ON-CAMPUS ACCESS ONLY
http://cshprotocols.cshlp.org/
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Available until June 30, 2009
Please send comments to Barbara Quintiliano (x95207)
barbara.quintiliano@villanova.edu

Take advantage of Falvey’s trial subscription to the Cold Spring Harbor Protocols,a definitive, interactive source of new and classic research techniques. The database is fully searchable by keyword and subject, and it has many novel features—such as discussion forums and personal folders—made possible by online publication. Its coverage includes

cell and molecular biology
genetics
bioinformatics
protein science
imaging.

Protocols are presented step-by-step and edited in the style that has made Molecular Cloning, Antibodies, Cells and many other CSH manuals essential to the work of scientists worldwide. Protocols will be continuously expanded, updated, and annotated by the originators and users of the techniques.

The Library is currently running a trial of The Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H Jacobs. The trial will last until March 5, 2009.. Log-in with your Villanova user id and password and enter welcome on the Proquest log-in screen. Please take a look and let us know what you think.The Gerritsen Collection is currently housed in the Spencer Library at the University of Kansas and was until recently only in microfilm available to the wider public. The collection consists of more than 4,700 books, pamphlets and periodicals. The materials span four centuries, from 1543 to 1945 and 15 languages.

In the late 1800’s, Dutch physician Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen began collecting books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the evolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women’s rights. The Gerritsen Collection has since become the greatest single source for the study of women’s history in the world. For a more detailed description, see “The Gerritsen Collection.” by Janet Sharistanian et al. in Feminist Studies, vol. 3, no. 3/4 (spring-summer 1976), pp. 200-206.

PsycArticles (1894- ) Password: welcome

Provides access to full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of advertisements and editorial board lists. In 2006, the historical backfiles of the journals were added to the database.

PsycINFO (1806- ) Password: welcome

Provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.

Trial subscription until March 20, 2009.

The purpose of the trial is

• to compare the ease of searching in the CSA interface versus the OVID interface.
• to review the record display to see if it is more useful?
• Note that descriptors in a record display can be combined with and or or.

This digital collection starts with the American State Papers in 1789 and includes reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives up to 1969. Trial until until November 30, 2008.

Since this database is on trial, it is under consideration for purchase. Please leave your comments/votes below if you would like us to keep this resource.

This digital collection starts with the American State Papers in 1789 and will include reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives up to 1980 when completed. Maps can be searched in a separate module.  Trial ends November 30, 2008.

Since this database is on trial, it is under consideration for purchase. Please leave your comments/votes below if you would like us to keep this resource.

CAMIO

• The database contains about 95,000 works of fine and decorative art.
• The images come from more than 20 museums, located in the United States and abroad.
• All content is rights-cleared for educational use.
• The collection ranges from 3000 BCE to the present, representing premiere examples of Asian, African, Latin American and Western art.
• Includes difficult-to-find contemporary art.
• Users can download high-resolution images, and e-mail images and metadata for further study.
• For more information on CAMIO, click here

Since this database is on trial, it is under consideration for purchase. Please leave your comments/votes below if you would like us to keep this resource.

New Databases

• Index of Christian Art, Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
• Early American Imprints, Series II Shaw-Shoemaker 1801-1819
• Sabin Americana 1500-1926
• The Making of the Modern World
• Mintel Reports
• GNPD (Global New Product Development)
• World Bank Global Development Finance GDF
• World Bank Global Economic Monitor GEM
• World Bank World Development Indicators WDI
• Reference Universe

Trial Databases:

• Nursing Reference Center  Expired
• NCJRS,
• Birds of North America,
• International Bibliography of Theater & Dance with Full Text  Expired
• Palgrave Dictionary of Economics