SAGE Fulltext Collections

FYI, our SAGE Full-text Collections, Communications Studies Full-Text and Criminology Full-Text, will no longer be available via the CSA platform after the end of December 2009. They have been moved to the SAGE platform and our database links have been updated to reflect this.

TRIAL: HistoryMakers Video from Proquest

We now have trial access to the HistoryMakers Video collection from Proquest, through the end of the month.

To access the trial please visit: http://trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid=3196408 (password is required, email ballmATfiu.edu for access)

About HistoryMakers:

This resource is a digital archive of 100 videos of oral history interviews of contemporary African Americans, produced in partnership with The HistoryMakers (www.thehistorymakers.com), a non-profit organization founded by Julieanna Richardson in 1999 with the mission of uncovering and preserving the untold stories of America.

These digital oral histories depict those have broken barriers and accomplished significant achievements across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in business, science, education, government, entertainment, sports, and other fields. These are 2-3 hour digitized videos, fully subject-indexed, available for online viewing in full, or in segments. Search or browse through the list by name, occupation, or theme. Watch and hear firsthand experiences, education and career struggles and triumphs. Create accounts of ancestor history, childhood, Civil Rights era relevant playlists for your class, research papers, or projects.

TRIAL: CREDO Online Reference Library

We now have trial access to the Credo Online Reference Library through December.

To access the trial, please visit: http://www.credoreference.com/

ABOUT CREDO:
"Credo Reference is a leading provider of reference services for libraries and information centers.
Partnering with many of the world's leading publishers, Credo Reference combines publishing expertise with the latest digital technologies to unlock the knowledge value of reference material. By using unique proprietary technology that integrates information through a network of intelligent, multi-dimensional cross-references, Credo Reference delivers real added value to students, researchers, businesses and reference help desks worldwide.
There are over 395 titles consisting of an aggregate of 3.2 million entries all interconnected by millions of links. Credo Reference is unique in the industry in its offering each library the ability to customize the reference service to meet the needs of their user base. "

TRIAL: CQ Press Political Reference Suite

We now have trial access to the CQ Press Political Reference Suite.

The collection includes 28 titles including:
Congress and the Nation Series, The New York Times on the Supreme Court, A to Z Series, Political Handbook of the World, The Contemporary Middle East, Political History of America's Wars, Encyclopedia of the First Amendment, Supreme Court Yearbook Series, Encyclopedia of Indian Policy and Law, The Supreme Court Compendium, Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, Vital Statistics on American Politics
Guides Series, Vital Statistics on the Presidency, Historic Documents, Washington Information Directory, The New York Times on the Presidency


Trial access is available through 12/5/2009.
To access the trial, visit: http://library.cqpress.com/prs

For more information on the collection and the titles, visit:
http://www.cqpress.com/reference/pages/129

RefWorks Alumni Access

RefWorks-COS is pleased to announce that the Alumni Program will now be offered as a standard feature of RefWorks, providing lifelong access to users that are alumni of subscribing institutions. As long as an institution subscribes to RefWorks, alumni will have access, allowing them to continue using their personal research databases for future professional and academic endeavors.

Lifelong access to RefWorks will be an added benefit for alumni, and help academic institutions maintain the healthy alumni relationships that are so essential for donations, rankings and other ongoing involvement.

To learn more about the Alumni Program, please click here.

National Hispanic Heritage Month, free databases

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, through October 15, Alexander Street is offering free access to select full-text, online collections for libraries. Explore poetry, short stories, folk tales, novels, memoirs, non-fiction, and plays in both Spanish and English from Latino writers around the world.

Access these collections now through October 15:
Latino Literature<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?AlexanderStreetPress/8727703eba/4d73fb691c/b41dc0d12d>
Caribbean Literature< http://cts.vresp.com/c/?AlexanderStreetPress/8727703eba/4d73fb691c/e686a56a45>

To access the collection, please contact ballm@fiu.edu

TRIALS: Gale Digital Collections

We now have trial access to 3 Digital Collections from Gale. They are:

The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850:
The Making of the Modern World offers researchers new ways to understand the emergence of modern economics and other social sciences. It's the most comprehensive collection in existence for researching the literature of economics from this period. This unrivalled online library offers instant access to the theories, practices, and consequences of economic and business activity in the West, from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century. It combines the strengths of two pre-eminent collections — the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at the Harvard Business School — along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the libraries of Yale University.

Sabin Americana, 1500-1926:
... provides a wealth of research material necessary for intensive studies of the history of the New World.
Joseph Sabin’s Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America from Its Discovery to the Present Time has been heralded as a cornerstone in the study of the history of the Western Hemisphere. Gale’s Sabin Americana, 1500-1926 takes the works currently captured from that bibliography and makes them available online.

Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive:
a historical archive that embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual and global way.

• Part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition

Trial access is available via the URLs below and runs through October 14.

Product	URL
MAKING OF MODERN WORLD	http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/miam11506?db=MOME
SABIN AMERICANA DIGITAL ARCHIVE	http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/miam11506?db=SABN
SLAVERY AND ANTI-SLAVERY: A TRANSNATIONAL ARCHIVE PART I	http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/miam11506?db=SAS