Alternative Press Index (Trial)

Trial access to Alternative Press Index is available on the Dal Libraries' trial resources site. Access is by authorization number and password which are provided on the trial resources page. The trial will end April 19, 2008.

Alternative Press Index indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines, covering cultural, economic, political, and social change from 1991 to the present. Subjects covered include anarchism, indigenous peoples, democracy, labor, ecology, national liberation, feminism, theory and practice of socialism, gay and lesbian issues.

Brill Online (Trial)

Brill Online is a collection of digital resources that focuses primarily upon areas such as History, Classics, and Religious Studies, but content is not limited to these subjects. The trial provides access to the entire suite of Brill Online products, but these are also available as individual subscriptions. For the duration of the trial, which ends on March 13, 2008, access is available from on-campus locations only.

The products included in Brill Online are:

Africa Yearbook
Dictionary of Gnosis & Western Esotericism
The Brill Dictionary of Religion
Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition and THREE
The Encyclopaedia of Judaism (2nd edition)
Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures (Volumes 1 to 5)
Index Islamicus
International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who 2008
Jacoby Online (consisting of Brill's New Jacoby and Die Fragmente der Griechischen Historiker)
New Pauly Online (consisting of Der Neue Pauly and Brill's New Pauly)
World Christian Database

ISI Web of Knowledge Introduces New Interface

As of February 3, 2008, ISI databases available through the "Web of Knowledge" portal are available on a new upgraded interface. Some of the new features are:

• Whether searching all databases or an individual collection, users can now use the search boxes to perform general searches. They can also add more search boxes to add more search fields for complex searches.


• Results pages display more detail, including bibliographic information for records, as well as full-text links and OpenURL linking.


• Results can be analyzed and refined directly from the Results pages


• Analyze and refine searches from Results pages


• Citation results and related records searching are clearly highlighted in individual full records, enabling users quickly and easily find a wider variety of relevant articles.

Search Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports or Biological Abstracts using the new interface.

More information is available on the ISI News Page

Blackwell Reference Online (Trial)

Until March 1, 2008, the Dalhousie Libraries are hosting a trial of Blackwell Reference Online, the new online reference collection from Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. Nearly 300 reference volumes are currently available in BRO, making it the largest academic reference collection of its kind available online. Subject coverage includes Business & Economics, History, Language & Linguistics, Literature & Cultural Studies, Philosophy & Religion, Sociology & Psychology, and Classics. The interface incorporates sophisticated functionalities such as: search options and innovative classification – by subject, person, period, key topic and place; 'quick search' on every page allows searching of individual titles or the whole database; numerous illustrations enhance and illuminate the content.

Access during the trial period is available on campus only.

Ebsco offers trial of SAGE databases

EBSCO Publishing has purchased the rights to ten renowned print indexes from SAGE, processed the content for each index back to Volume 1 Issue 1, and made them available electronically via EBSCOhost. These are highly-refined, specialized collections in their subject areas. Trial access will continue until February 22.
The eleven indexes are:

Abstracts in Social Gerontology
Educational Administration Abstracts
Family Studies Abstracts
Human Resources Abstracts
Peace Research Abstracts
Public Administration Abstracts
Race Relations Abstracts
Shock & Vibration Digest
Urban Studies Abstracts
Violence & Abuse Abstracts

images.MD: The Online Encyclopedia of Medical Images

images.MD compiles over 70,000 high-quality images spanning all of internal medicine, all derived from Current Medicine Group LLC’s renowned series of illustrated atlases. images.MD has over 50,000 medical images from more than 90 collections and 2,000 contributors.

As a member of Dalhousie University, you have free access to full-sized, high quality images in step with the latest developments in medicine. By filling out a simple registration form, you can also start your own image library, create PowerPoint® presentations of images in your library, and order customized CD-ROMs of your favorite slides. Explore images.MD now!

Early English Books Online and the Text Creation Partnership

Users of Early English Books Online (EEBO) know that the database contains the full text of more than 100,000 English-language books printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. However, because much of this full-text material is presented in image file formats such as GIF, PDF, or TIFF, it is not fully keyword searchable. This is where the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) comes in. Dalhousie is a member of the TCP and has been contributing to a project that will eventually see 25,000 EEBO documents made available as completely searchable ASCII text. Users will be able to view both the transcribed text and the corresponding original page images. 11,500 documents have so far been "SGML encoded" by the TCP. The University of Michigan hosts a search interface where users can search this full-text segment of EEBO.

Try searching Early English Books Online at the Text Creation Partnership website.