Library PressDisplay is a collection of 2,000 newspapers from 100 countries in 56 languages. You can browse or search for content in specific newspapers or see content across newspapers. You can also see the page-by-page layout of the original newspaper. Coverage for each newspaper goes back 60 days.
Trial ends November 30th, 2014. The annual subscription cost is $8,775 for 3 users at a time.
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The Black Liberation Army and the Program of Armed Struggle database includes over 8,000 scanned documents from the FBI Library covering the period between 1970-1983 when the Black Liberation Army gained strength as the Black Panthers declined. You can browse all the documents or search by keyword, full-text, place name, document title or author, and limit by date. The titles are FBI file numbers.
You can explore this collection on trial through September 5th, 2014. Please give us your feedback. (UMass NetID login required for UMass Apps.)
Access World News is an extensive source of news from local, regional, national and international printed and online newspapers, blogs, journals, newswires, broadcast transcripts and videos back to 1903 where available. Coverage includes 8,268 sources from 150 countries.
The trial continues through July 18, 2014. Please give us your feedback. (UMass NetID login required for UMass Apps.)
We’re offering trials to two ProQuest Historical newspapers through May 2, 2014:
PBS Video Collection offers hundreds PBS production documentaries and series covering history, science and technology, diversity studies, business, and current events on the Alexander Street Press platform. You can browse by title, people, disciplines, series or search with these limits.
The database trial ends May 17, 2014. Please give us your feedback. (UMass NetID login required for UMass Apps.)
A-R Editions’ Online Music Anthology contains sheet music from antiquity through the romantic era, with extensive contents for the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque. The music is fully indexed and searchable by composer, title, style period, genre, nationality, language, and more.
This database trial ends June 30, 2014. Please give us your feedback. (UMass NetID login required for UMass Apps.) Annual cost is $1,000.
The Libraries have on trial from East View Information Services three databases covering the Ukraine:
All trials will continue through April 17th, 2014. If you have questions about using any of these resources, please ask us.
PolicyMap is a collection of demographic, real estate, city crime rate, health, school, housing affordability, employment, energy, and public investment indicators available on a GIS platform. You can build layers of data and view them by location.
The trial ends March 31st, 2014. The cost is $8,000 for an annual subscription. Please share your feedback (UMass NetID required for UMass Apps) with us about this resource.
The Merck Index Online provides authoritative source information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals. You can do a quick search on Name, CAS Registry Number, Molecular Formula or Molecular Weight, or a structure search. You can also browse by organic named reaction.
The trial ends April 4, 2014. The cost is $22,600 for purchase and $4,452 for annual subscription. Please share your feedback (UMass NetID required for UMass Apps) with us about this resource.
LGBT Thought and Culture from Alexander Street Press features documentaries, interviews, memoirs, speeches, biographies, archival footage and primary source collections exploring the cultural, social, and political evolution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people since the beginning of the twentieth century. You can browse or search by author, topic, archival collection and material type.
The trial continues through April 27th, 2014. Purchase price is $29,000. Please share your feedback (UMass NetID required for UMass Apps) with us about this resource.