Trials & New Databases

Offers complete electronic editions of more than 3,900 U.S. and global news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, video clips, and news blogs.  Provides extensive coverage with more than 200 million current and archived articles at local, regional, national and international levels.  Shortcut links are provided to “All Wisconsin News”, “Major Metro Titles”, and Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Trial runs through December 21, 2009.

This dictionary is a structured database containing detailed information on chemical substances.  It includes descriptive and numerical data on the chemical, physical and biological properties of compounds; systematic and common names of compounds; literature references; structure diagrams and their associated connection tables.

Trial runs through June 25, 2009.

Dynamed is a clinical reference tool intended primarily for point-of-care use.  It can be accessed off-campus and also works with PDAs.

Trial runs through July 2009.

Indexes and abstracts for more than 1,900 titles and full text from 500+ publications, including top-ranked scholarly journals, recent reference works, and professional conference papers.  Coverage includes law and legislation, comparative politics, political theory, international relations, humanitarian issues and non-governmental organizations.

Trial runs through July, 2009.

Multidisciplinary database with 11,000+ titles, with over 8,000 titles in full-text.  It serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels in all markets.  Over 160 subjects areas are covered extensively including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences and more.

Trial runs through May 15, 2009.

Covers national and global public policy issues ranging from public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, to international commerce and conflict.

Trial runs through July, 2009.

This e-book publisher offers 50 to 100 page electronic books that synthesize an important research or development topic in the areas of engineering and computer science.  Individual titles are available in both PDF and PDF Plus format.  The PDF Plus format allows for quicker downloads and provides links to higher resolution graphics where needed.

Trial runs through July 31, 2009.

New Databases Added since January 2008