Monday, September 10, 2007

DATABASE TRIALS: CCO & Historical Statistics of the United States

Cambridge Companions Online (CCO) from Cambridge University Press.
CCO is a major new online resource for the humanities. There are nearly 250 titles available in 3 packages: The Complete Companions Collection, The Literature and Classics Companion Collection, and The Philosophy, Religion and Culture Companions Collection.

The trial can be accessed at: http://cco.cambridge.org/
and will be active through October 9.

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Historical Statistics of the United States from Cambridge University Press
Contains more than 37,000 annual time series of historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present...statistical information can be downloaded, combined, or graphed into tables, and even exported into Excel or other spreadsheet programs.
The trial can be accessed at: http://hsus.cambridge.org/
and will be available through October 9.

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