Monday, August 29, 2011

TRIALS: Gale World Scholar, Latin America & the Caribbean

We now have a trial to Gale's new World Scholar database.

It combines historical primary and secondary sources with contemporary content and places them in an engaging context highlighted by rich multimedia, interactive tools.

To access the trial, visit the trial link

It includes & covers,
  • Hundreds of major topics, issues and people
  • Relevant archival material (monographs, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, and newspapers), including never-before-digitized documents
  • Scholarly journals, newspapers and periodicals, dynamically updated
  • Fast-flip feature allows browsing through historical monographs
  • Dynamic multimedia end-user experience through interactive maps, audio/video, think-tank and policy studies, statistical information, and much more
  • Easily navigate and discover content in context to complete projects and assignments
  • Original scholarship-signed essays allow researchers to connect between key topics and primary sources, giving new perspectives to historical content.

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