TRIAL: DRAM music database

Link to database; restricted to yorku.ca domain. Trial ends 2007.10.01

From the vendor:

DRAM is a not-for-profit resource providing CD quality audio, complete and original liner notes and essays from New World Records, Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) and other important labels. DRAM offers the educational community on-demand, high-quality (192kbps/MP4) streaming access to complete works. DRAM is accessible to anyone at a participating institution. At this time, individual subscriptions are not available.

Currently, there are over 1,500 CDs (9,800 compositions) in DRAM. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records. From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, New World has served composers, artists, students and the general public since its inception in 1975 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

DRAM also includes music from other contributing sources, including the CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening and Mutable Music labels. In the future, alliances with other major and independent labels and archival sources will be crucial to enhancing DRAM’s role of serving the needs of serious music scholars.

The database does not limit the number of users at any one time. DRAM observes all legal and industry mandated copyright and artist royalties and is hosted by New York University.

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TRIAL: Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology

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Published in affiliation with the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology (CPSC) covers the most fundamental protocols and methods in the rapidly growing field of stem cell biology.

Updated monthly, CPSC will constantly evolve with the latest developments and breakthroughs in the field. Drawing on the expertise of leading researchers from around the world, Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology includes methods and insights that will enhance the progress of global research.

To start, Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology will cover research in:

• Embryonic Stem Cells – methods for isolation of stem cells from a variety of model organisms and humans, characterization of these cells and the undifferentiated state, induction of differentiation into cells of the mesodermal, endodermal, ectodermal and extraembryonic lineages, and molecular and functional characterization of the differentiated state.
• Adult Stem Cells – isolation of progenitor stem cells from differentiated tissues, their characterization, and differentiation.
• Genetic Manipulation of Stem Cells – tools for manipulating the genetic content of stem cells and for marking stem cells.

Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology will add new methods and ideas as the field expands. It employs the standardized presentation and format that has made Current Protocols the most respected source of methods for twenty years.

TRIAL: International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text

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International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text is the definitive research tool for the study of theatre and the performing arts. International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text was initiated by the American Society for Theatre Research, and since 1984, the Theatre Research Data Center (TRDC) at Brooklyn College has published 14 volumes of the IBTD. These volumes comprise a fully indexed, cross-referenced and annotated databank of over 60,000 journal articles, books, book articles and dissertation abstracts on all aspects of theatre and performance in 126 countries. As experts in the subject area, TRDC will continue indexing various titles for the database as well as coordinating international contributors. International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text contains full text for more than 100 titles, including Canadian Theatre Review, Dance Chronicle, Dance Teacher, Modern Drama, PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, Research in Dance Education, Research in Drama Education, Studies in Theatre and Performance, TDR: The Drama Review, Theater, and many more. Additional full text available includes more than 100 books & monographs such as Art and the Performance of Memory, Avant Garde Theatre, British Realist Theatre, Community Theatre, History of European Drama and Theatre, Learning Through Theatre, Opera, Performance Theory, Popular Theatres of Nineteenth Century France, Shakespeare, Theory and Performance, Sourcebook on Feminist Theatre and Performance, Theatre and the World, Twentieth-Century Actor Training, Who’s Who in Contemporary World Theatre, World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre and many more.

TRIAL: LawSource

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Get fast easy access to comprehensive primary law and state of the art finding tools, such as The Canadian Encyclopedic Digest and The Canadian Abridgment — available only from Carswell. Experience KeyCiteCanada, now the industry’s most powerful citator, allowing you to note up cases and legislation, with its unique flag and icon system that keep you informed on the status of a case or statute.

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TRIAL: taxnet.pro

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Carswell’s taxnet.pro^® is an Internet-based research service offering full coverage of all Canadian taxes including Income Tax, GST and the provincially administered taxes. Along with all the primary legislation and government documents, taxnet.pro^® also offers the most comprehensive database of case law related to Canadian tax. It also offers authoritative and comprehensive commentary from leading experts including Income Tax analytical commentary written by Stikeman Elliott as well as David Sherman’s GST commentary, the most highly regarded GST analysis on the market.

TRIAL: getAbstract

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getAbstract summarizes business books, making our subscribers the best-read, most expert players on the business scene today. Our mission is to provide executives worldwide with the best in business knowledge. We deliver this knowledge in concise summaries of the latest, sharpest and most relevant books. Our summaries are available in English and German.

Each five-page summary is presented in a crisp, magazine-page format. You can read it in less than 10 minutes – the perfect length to deliver the book’s key ideas. The no-fluff summaries are logically structured to get the maximum out of your reading time.

[Anyone with a yorku.ca email account can] select the topics that are important to your work or simply those that appeal to you. Each week you’ll receive one summary that fits your personal interest profile. In addition to this, you can download as many summaries as you like from our library of more than 4,000 titles.

TRIAL: Encyclopedia of Islam

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The Encyclopaedia of Islam is unsurpassed in size, authority and erudition. Offering the best and latest scholarship, it provides an invaluable reference tool that no library or scholar of the world of Islam should be without.

The Encyclopaedia of Islam sets out the present state of our knowledge of the Islamic World from religion and history to politics and culture. It embraces articles on distinguished Muslims of every age and land, on tribes and dynasties, on the crafts and sciences, on political and religious institutions, on the geography, ethnography, flora and fauna of the various countries and on the history, topography and monuments of the major towns and cities. Its geographical and historical scope encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire and all modern Islamic states.

TRIAL: Canada Info Desk

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Access thousands of records on Canadian organizations, her government, business, schools and financial and cultural institutions. Everything from her Prime Ministers to her zoos is just a click away in this remarkable group of carefully maintained databases known for their breadth and accuracy of information on Canada.

This is our all-encompassing Canadian online source that provides access to all six databases. And that means access to tens of thousands of cultural and professional organizations, government offices, law firms, banks, health and education facilities, libraries, and the media ranging from magazines to broadcasters. With CID you have access to over 100,000 contact names across Canada, too. All carefully indexed for easy productive search queries. No other on-line source covers the diverse array of Canadian information like Canada Info Desk. A virtual who’s who and what’s where in Canada.

Canada Info Desk contains:

• Canadian Almanac
• Associations Canada
• Directory of Libraries in Canada
• Canadian Environmental Directory
• Governments Canada
• Financial Services Canada

TRIAL: Literature Criticism Online

Trial ends: 2007.09.30

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Literature Criticism Online is designed to provide easy access for readers of all ages and skill levels. Beginning-level users may simply enter an author or title and find a wealth of content, while experienced researchers may broaden or narrow their results via cross-searches on names of critics, journal titles, topics and more.

The 10 individual Thomson Gale series that comprise Literature Criticism Online represent a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres:

• Contemporary Literary Criticism
• Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism
• Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism
• Shakespeare Criticism
• Literature Criticism 1400-1800
• Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism
• Poetry Criticism
• Short Story Criticism
• Drama Criticism
• Children’s Literature Review

TRIAL: LexisNexis Academic for Canada Basic

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