Veterinary Education in Video from Alexander Street Press includes over 600 videos designed for veterinarians, vet technical assistants and other animal care providers. Topics include a range of clinical skills, animal health conditions, animal handling, and technology for small, large, avian and exotic animals.
The trial continues through January 15, 2014. Please provide us your feedback. You will need to login to your UMass Google Apps account with you UMass NetID
UpToDate is a clinical decision support resource of physician written and peer-reviewed articles on thousands of clinical topics. Each article includes an overview, description of disease and treatment with supporting tables, related topics, pictures, references and more. You can search all topics or narrow your search to adult, pediatric or patient topics.
The trial goes through December 31st, 2013. Please provide your feedback. You’ll be prompted for your UMass NetID to use UMass Google Apps.
Environmental Studies in Video is a collection of documentary films and footage produced since 1970 about environmental ethics, policy, economics, law, sociology and planning. Topics such as pollution control, eco-design, sustainability, farming, agriculture, food industry, and waste are covered. The subjects are global in scope. You can search for videos by title or browse by geographic area, discipline, content type, organization and more.
Please send us you feedback. You will be asked to login with your UMass NetID to us Google Apps.
The Libraries have a second trial for Academic Charts Online through December 6, 2013. This database enables search and comparison of song popularity across cultures and genres. Please send us your feedback using your UMass NetID for Google Apps.
Momentum Press, a partner of the American Association of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), gives us trial access to 75 e-books covering physics, chemistry, medicine & health, technology, engineering and more. You can search by title, author, ISBN, filter by publication date or browse by subject. You can browse books by chapter or download a pdf of the entire book.
The trial goes through December 15th. Contact Maxine Schmidt, Engineering Liaison Librarian, with questions or comments at 413-545-6739.
The Libraries now have a trial for these additional databases on the Web of Knowledge platform:
These databases complement our existing subscriptions for these Web of Science databases:
Database trial ends October 27th, 2013. Please give us your feedback. (UMass NetID login required for UMass Apps.)
The Libraries have a trial for Scopus, a comprehensive database of citations and abstracts for 21,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers across the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts & humanities. You can search by topic, author, author’s affiliation, source, date and more. Full-text is available for many articles. Scopus also provides tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
The trial continues through October 31st. Please give us your feedback. (UMass NetID login required for UMass Apps.)
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 ends November 5, 2013. Please send comments to Anne Moore, Gay, Lesbian & Transgender Studies Liaison Librarian, at 413-545-6888.
Cambridge Histories Online includes 326 volumes published since 1960 covering 15 academic areas from American and British History to Music, Philosophy, History of Science, Theatre Studies and Performing Arts and more. You can browse by subject or search by keyword, title, author and/or publication year.
The trial continues through October 2, 2013. Please send comments or questions to Jim Kelly, Humanities Research Services Librarian, at 413-545-3981.
The Libraries have a trial for Berg Fashion Library which offers a combination of images, e-books, the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, and other fashion reference sources. Students and scholars in disciplines as diverse as anthropology, art history, history, sociology, geography, folklore, museum studies, theatre, and cultural studies as well as fashion and textiles will find the Berg Fashion Library of interest.
The trial continues through October 2, 2013. Please send comments or questions to Jim Kelly, Humanities Research Services Librarian, at 413-545-3981.