EREPORT @ York

TRIAL: Cold Spring Harbour Protocols

ereport — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:44:02 +0000

York University Libraries has arranged a trial to the Cold Spring Harbour Protocols.

You can access the trial here: http://www.cshprotocols.org

Cold Spring Harbor Protocols is an interdisciplinary journal providing access to research methods in cell, developmental and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, computational biology, immunology, neuroscience and imaging. Newly commissioned protocols and unsolicited submissions are supplemented with articles based on Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s courses and manuals.

The trial is scheduled to expire on July 28, 2010

TRIAL: The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994

ereport — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:36:36 +0000

York University Libraries has arranged for a trial to The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817 – 1994

You can access the trial two ways:

-An indirect URL through the NewsBank Infoweb list of services available

http://infoweb.newsbank.com

-A direct URL to the “browse/simple search” screen

http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=SERIAL

Presenting every publication from the 15th Congress through the 103rd Congress, including items missing from other editions, the Readex U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 contains over 415,000 individual documents in more than 14,000 volumes. Designed for legislative and historical research, the Readex digital edition features browse capabilities and comprehensive metadata, offering research opportunities for students and scholars in cultural, economic, ethnic, government, military, political and science history and other fields. Readex uses the original volumes to create new digital images of every publication, including approximately 56,000 maps. Nearly 14,000 maps and more than 8,000 illustrations appear in high-resolution color.

The trial will run through May 28.

TRIAL: World Newspaper Archive: Latin America

eres librarian — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 20:31:10 +0000

York University Libraries has arranged for a trial of World Newspaper Archive: Latin America.

You can access the trial here (click on “Latin American Newspapers”): http://infoweb.newsbank.com

The trial will run until April 23, 2010.

Latin American Newspapers provides more than 35 fully searchable Latin American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere, Latin American Newspapers offers coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped this vital region between 1805 and 1922.

TRIAL: African American Newspapers, 1827-1998

ereport — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:54:05 +0000

York U has arranged for a trial to African American Newspapers

The trial will run through to April 28th. You can access it here by clicking on “America’s Historical Newspapers”: http://infoweb.newsbank.com

African American Newspapers is a fully searchable online collection featuring 270 newspapers published in 36 states. Coverage spans life in the Antebellum South; the spread of abolitionism; the growth of the Black church; the Emancipation Proclamation; the Jim Crow Era; the Great Migration to northern cities, the West and Midwest in search of greater opportunity; the rise of the N.A.A.C.P.; the Harlem Renaissance; the Civil Rights movement; political and economic empowerment and more.

TRIAL: Literary Research Guide

eres librarian — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:50:56 +0000

York U has arranged for a trial to the MLA Literary Research Guide

The trial will run for one month. You can access it here: http://www.mlalrg.org/

The Literary Research Guide is a selective, annotated guide to reference sources related to the study of British literature, literatures of the United States, other literatures in English, and related topics. The scope and organization of the content are described in the introduction.

Browse over 1,000 entries, which refer to nearly 1,600 additional books, articles, and electronic resources and cite over 700 reviews.

Look up each entry in WorldCat and Google Books.

Search all entries from any page. Use the advanced function to narrow your search. Boolean operations are supported.

Learn how scholars identify and locate primary and secondary works.

Save searches and individual entries and write your own notes about them for future use.

TRIAL: Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1800-1945)

ereport — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:28:56 +0000

York U has arranged a trial for RIPM’s new interface for the Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1800-1945), and the recently-released RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals (Full-Text).

Trial runs from February 19, 2010 through March 19, 2010.

Access the trial here: http://www.ripmfulltext.org/ripmdigitization/RipmNew/Login.aspx

RIPM is an international annotated bibliography of writings on musical history and culture, found in music periodicals published in 20 countries between approximately 1800 and 1950. RIPM is published under the auspices of the International Musicological Society, and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres.

RIPM ONLINE ARCHIVE OF MUSIC PERIODICALS (January 2010)
****61 FULL-TEXT PERIODICALS; New titles added every six months***

Berlinische Musikalische Zeitung (Berlin, 1805-1806)
The Quarterly Musical Magazine and Review (London, 1818-1828)
The Euterpeiad, or Musical Intelligencer (Boston, 1820-1823)
The Harmonicon (London, 1823-1833)
Revue musicale (Paris, 1827-1835)
Le Pianiste (Meudon and Vaugirard, 1833-1835)
Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (Leipzig, 1834-1844)
Pamietnik Muzyczny Warszawski (Warsaw, 1835-1836)
Le Novateur: Écho des arts (Antwerp, 1838-1839)
The Musical Journal (London, 1840)
Musical Reporter (Boston, 1841)
Allgemeine Wiener Musik-Zeitung (Vienna, 1841-1848)
La Iberia Musical (Madrid, 1842)
Stockholms musik-tidning (Stockholm, 1843-1844)
Boston Musical Review (Boston, 1845)
L’Italia musicale (Milan, 1847-1859)
Dwight’s Journal of Music (Boston, 1852-1881)
Ny tidning för musik (Stockholm, 1853-1857)
La Hollande musicale (The Hague, 1854-1855, 1866-1867)
La Musica (Naples, 1855)
La Zarzuela (Madrid, 1856-1857)
La España Artística (Madrid, 1857-1858)
Tidsskrift for Musik (Copenhagen, 1857-1859)
La Musica (Naples, 1857-1859)
Deutsche Musik-Zeitung (Vienna, 1860-1862)
La Gaceta Musical Barcelonesa (Barcelona, 1861-1865)
Revista y Gaceta Musical (Madrid, 1867-1868)
Muzykal’ny listok (St. Petersburg, 1872-1877)
La Chronique musicale (Paris, 1873-1876)
Musik-Welt (Berlin, 1880-1882)
Archivio Musicale (Naples, 1882-1884)
La Musica popolare (Milan, 1882-1885)
Musikbladet (Copenhagen, 1884-1895)
La Musica (Naples, 1876-1878; 1883-1885)
L’Indépendance musicale et dramatique (Paris, 1887-1888)
Nordisk Tidsskrift for Musik (Copenhagen, 1871-1873)
Paganini (Genoa, 1887-1891)
Orkestertidende (Christiania [Oslo], 1892-1894)
Skandinaviske Signaler (Copenhagen, 1894-1895)
The Arion (Toronto, 1880-1881)
Zenészeti Közlöny (Budapest, 1882)
The Quarterly Musical Review (Manchester, 1885-1888)
Zenevilág (Budapest, 1890-1891)
La Música Ilustrada Hispano-Americana (Barcelona, 1898-1902)
La Revue musicale (Paris, 1901-1912)
The Musical Antiquary (Oxford, 1909-1913)
Harvard Musical Review (Cambridge, 1912-1916)
Pro-Musica Quarterly (New York, 1923-1929)
Musical Mercury (New York, 1934-1939)
The Juilliard Review (New York, 1954-1962)
The New Musical Magazine, Review and Register (London, 1809-1810)
Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf den österreichischen Kaiserstaat (Vienna, 1817-1824)
English Musical Gazette (London, 1819)
Gazette musicale de Paris (Paris, 1834-1835)
Gazzetta musicale di Firenze (Florence, 1853-1855)
L’Armonia (Florence, 1856-1859)
Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung (Leipzig, 1863-1882)
Nordisk musik-tidende (Christiania [Oslo], 1880-1892)
Het Muziekcollege (Haarlem, 1913-1917)
Musike Epitheoresis (Athens, 1921-1922)

TRIAL: AccessMedicine

ereport — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 05:33:46 +0000

York University Libraries has arranged a trial of Access Medicine.

Duration: January 4 2010 – February 4 2010

Access Trial at: www.accessmedicine.com

AccessMedicine offers a suite of clinical and educational content from various books and references. ACM offers
integrated and personalized tools designed to make use of and search for medical information.

Key Points:

* Full Access to titles and content to prepare for rounds and everyday practice;

* Fully integrated drug monographs, allowing users to search them with full text queries with delineated tabs for generics, name brands, and drug classes.;

* Comprehensive,adaptable solution for today’s integrated medical education curriculum;

* Combination of clinical references, student texts and test prep in USMLEasy;

* Quick answers with A-Z index, boolean search and cross-reference searching;

* Preparation for presentations including use of images;

* Use of CMDT for quick point-of-care Dx and Tx;

* Links to primary research via PubMed;

* Content downloadable to PDA;

TRIAL: Adforum

eres librarian — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:07:06 +0000

York University Libraries has arranged for a trial to Adforum.

To access please go to: www.adforum.com/york

Note - on the header of the page there is a button that says "Login" which should be disregarded.  You
do not need to enter any login details to use the site.  If you would like to create your own personal ad
play-lists you can click there to register though.

The Adforum.com creative library has over 100,000 ads from around the world. Ads can be searched for and
found using the advanced ad search tool.  Ads on the site come from all media types (TV, Print,
Interactive, Radio etc).and can be viewed in a high quality video player.

TRIAL: Global Health

ereport — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:40:26 +0000

York U currently has a trial to Ebsco's Global Health and Global Health Archive
Expires: January 14 2010
Global Health:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=lhh

Global Health Archive:
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=gha
Global Health
Global Health is a public health database with more than 1.4 million records of which 40% are unique and
over 95% contain informative abstracts. Produced by CABI Publishing, the database contains information
from over 3,500 serials, books, book chapters, conference proceedings, patents, theses and electronic
only publications from more than 150 countries. 

Subject coverage includes international health, biomedical life sciences, non-communicable diseases,
public health nutrition, food safety and hygiene, occupational health, toxicology, health services, and
maternal/child health. Featuring material from Abstracts on Hygiene and Communicable Diseases, Review of 
Medical and Veterinary Entomology, Tropical Diseases Bulletin, and Nutrition Abstracts and Reviews, this
database offers global coverage of both the developing and developed world with over 50 languages
translated into English. 

Global Health Archive
Global Health Archive is comprised of six printed abstract journals produced between 1912 and 1983, and
includes over 800,000 records.
Global Health Archive provides information on Public Health, Tropical and Communicable Diseases,
Nutrition, Helminthology, Entomology, and Mycology.
This digital archive puts current international and public health problems into an historical context.
Global Health Archive contains information on issues that are still being researched today, including:
·                Bioterrorism
·                Disease control
·                Patent protection
·                Food security and malnutrition
·                The effects of economic development on health, and many more.

TRIAL: Linguistic Bibliography Online

ereport — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:00:41 +0000

Trial details:
Site address:    http://lb.brillonline.nl
Product:         Linguistic Bibliography Online
Start date:      10 November 2009
End date:        9 December 2009

The Linguistic Bibliography Online provides nearly 250.000 bibliographical references to scholarly publications in linguistics.
It covers all branches of linguistics, both theoretical and descriptive, from all geographical areas.
The emphasis is on non-Indo-European languages and lesser known Indo-European languages, including
endangered and extinct languages. It is by far the most comprehensive bibliography in the field.