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Timeline

FirstSearch Trial: January 1 through March 31, 1996
Databases: FirstSearch

Spring '97 Trials: January 1, 1997 through May 31, 1997.
Databases: Books In Print, EBSCO, Encyclopedia Americana (for a 2 month period), Facts on File, GALE, H.W. Wilson, Information Access Company, OCLC FirstSearch, SIRS and UMI.

Fall '97 Trials: Varied lengths between September '97 through December '97
Databases: Current Contents (accessed via Ovid and/or IAC), Electric Library, Encyclopedia Americana, Encyclopedia Britannica, Newsbank,Ovid
 
Spring '98 Trials: Varied lengths between February '98 through March '98

Databases: African American Biographical Databases, Cambridge Scientific, Congressional Compass (Congressional Universe), Health Reference Center, Health Reference Center-Academic, Health Source Plus, ¡Informe!, International Index to Music Periodicals, Literature Online, Omaha World Herald, PolicyFile, SIRS Researcher, TOPICsearch


Summer '98 Trials: July 1, 1998 through July 31, 1998

Databases: LifeCenter

Fall '98 Trials: Varied lengths between September '98 through November '98

Databases: Book Review Digest (H.W. Wilson), Index to Legal Periodicals (H.W. Wilson), Library Literature (H.W. Wilson), NoveList, Poem Finder, Wilson Biographies (H.W. Wilson), World Book Online

Spring '99 Trials: Varied lengths between January '99 through May '99

Databases: EBSCO (this trial was for schools only and included access to MAS Ultra Online Package, Middle Search Plus, and Primary Search), Gale Group (included access to databases such as Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Resource Center, What Do I Read Next, Expanded Academic ASAP, and General Reference Center Gold), H.W. Wilson (Wilson Biographies Plus and Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select), Standard & Poor's Advantage

Fall '99 Trials: Varied lengths between August '99 through the end of the year

Databases: Bell & Howell National Newspapers (27), Business Source Elite (EBSCO), Chadwyck-Healey, Contemporary Authors (Gale), Lexis-Nexis Scholastic Universe, netLibrary, Newspaper Source (EBSCO), NoveList (EBSCO), MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO), Pierian Press Databases, Kiplinger Special Service, Well-Connected (Nidus Information Services) - Demo


Spring '00 Trials: Varied lengths starting January '00
Databases: Bell & Howell (PsychINFO/CINAHL), CIS History Universe, EBSCO (multiple databases), EBSCO (PsychINFO), Facts.com, FirstSearch (PsychINFO), Gale (K-12), Grove's Dictionaries Inc. (Dictionary of Art Online, New Grove Dictionary of Opera Online, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences), McGraw-Hill (AccessScience), netLibrary, Oxford University Press (American National Biography Online, Oxford English Dictionary Online), Project MUSE, Reference USA, SIRS (Researcher, Government Reporter, Renaissance, Discoverer Deluxe)


Fall '00 Trials: Varied lengths between August '00 and the end of the year

Databases: Columbia Granger's World of Poetry, EarthWeb (ITKnowledge), Facts on File Online Databases


Spring '01 Trials: Varied lengths starting January '01
Databases: CQ Press Electronic Reference Library (CQ Researcher, CQ Weekly, Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government), EBSCO (multiple databases), Gale (InfoTrac, GaleNet, and Gale Group in Schools products), MagillOnLiterature, SIRS (Researcher, Government Reporter, Renaissance, Discoverer Deluxe, NetSelect), Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage


Fall '01 Trials: Varied lengths between August '01 and the end of the year
Databases: ALLDATA, Chilton's Auto Library, CQ Press, Emerald, Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Encyclopedia of Life Sciences, Facts.com, Grove Dictionary of Art Online, Grove Music Library, H.W. Wilson, Journal Web-Cite, LearnATest, Polling the Nations, Poemfinder, PsycARTICLES, Reference USA, Scientific American Archive Online


Spring '02 Trials: Varied lengths starting January '02
Databases: bigchalk, EDRS, Gale, Genealogy & Local History Online / HeritageQuest (ProQuest), Newsbank, Oxford Reference Online, PoemFinder/World's Best Poetry, Ulrich's Periodical Directory  

Fall '02 Trials: Varied lengths between August '02 and the end of the year
Datbases: Alexander Street Press, bigchalk, BioOne, FirstSearch, H.W. Wilson, INET Classroom / INET Library, NewsBank, OriginalSources, Safari Tech Books Online 

Spring '03 Trials: Varied lengths starting February '02
Databases: CQ Press, EBSCO, FactsforLearning, FirstSearch, Gale K-12 Resources, Hoover's Online, ProQuest, Roth Publishing's Lit Finder, SIRS, World & I Educational Resource and Archive 

Fall '03 Trials: Varied lengths August '03 and the end of the year
Databases:  AccessMedicine, AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive, CQ Electronic Library, CultureGrams, EBSCO, H.W. Wilson, Oxford University Press 

Spring '04 Trials: Varied lengths StartingJanuary '04
Databases:  Learning Express Business Writing/Job & Career Help Center; Gale; Learning Express High School Package; ProQuest (eLibrary Curriculum Edition, HeritageQuest, Nursing Journals)  

Fall '04 Trials: Varied lengths
Databases:  AP MultiMedia Archive; CountryWatch; Facts on File; H.W. Wilson; Westlaw Campus 

Spring '05 Trials: Varied lengths
Databases:  AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive; FirstSearch; Gale; LearningExpress Advantage and Learning Express Writing Improvement Programs; H.W. Wilson Education Index Retrospective and Education Full Text; Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center; p4A Antiques Reference Database; Xreferplus 

Fall '05 Trials: Varied lengths
Databases:  Daily Life Online Suite; FAITS (Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies); Greenwood Digital Collection; H.W. Wilson; PriceMiner; PsycBOOKS, PsycEXTRA, and PsycCRITIQUES; WetFeet


Spring '06 Trials: Varied lengths
Databases:  ABC-CLIO Schools' Social Studies Websites; Consumer Health Complete [EBSCO]; PriceMiner; Xreferplus

Fall '06 Trials: Varied lengths
Databases: Faulkner Information Services; H.W. Wilson; LearningExpress Advantage; ProQuest Ancestry Library Edition & ProQuest Obituaries; ScholarlyStats

Spring '07 Trials: Varied lengths
Databases: Faulkner Information Services; LearningExpress Advantage; LearningExpressLibrary; netTrekker d.i.; NewsBank; NewsBank (K12); Taylor & Francis; Teen Health & Wellness

Spring '08 Trials: Varied lengths
Databases: Columbia University Press; EBSCO; Facts on File; H.W. Wilson; MyiLibrary eBook Platform; MyLibraryDV; Taylor & Francis Routledge and Europa Resources; Value Line; Vault Online Career Library; Visual Thesaurus; World Vital Records

Fall '08 Trials: Varied lengths
Databases: EBSCO; Elsevier; LearningExpress; H.W. Wilson's Graphic Novels Core Collection

Spring '09 Trials: Varied lengths
Databases: EBSCO; Facts on File; Gale; H.W. Wilson; ProQuest; Rand McNally; ReferenceUSA; Taylor & Francis.

Fall '09 Trials: Varied lengths
Databases: EBSCO; Facts on File; Faulkner Information Services; Marshall Cavendish Digital; Morningstar Investment Research Center; TELL ME MORE Interactive Language Learning.

Spring '10 Trials:
Varied lengths
Databases: LearningExpress Job & Career Accelerator

Database Descriptions

FirstSearch Trial | Spring '97 Trials | Fall '97 Trials | Spring '98 Trials | Summer '98 Trials | Fall '98 Trials | Spring '99 Trials | Fall '99 Trials | Spring '00 Trials | Fall '00 Trials | Spring '01 Trials | Fall '01 Trials | Spring '02 Trials | Fall '02 Trials | Spring '03 Trials | Fall '03 Trials | Spring '04 Trials | Fall '04 Trials | Spring '05 Trials | Fall '05 Trials | Spring '06 Trials | Fall '06 Trials | Spring '07 Trials | Spring '08 Trials | Fall '08 Trials | Spring '09 Trials | Fall '10 Trials |
 

FirstSearch Trial

January 1, 1996 through March 31, 1996

155 libraries of all types participated in a trial of FirstSearch (OCLC).

FirstSearch (OCLC)

Spring '97 Trial Databases

January 1, 1997 till May 31, 1997

More then 100 libraries across the state participated in the Spring '97 Database Trials.

EBSCOHost: EBSCOHost Master File Full Text 1000, Business Elite (when it is available), Academic Search Full Text 1000, Masterfile Full Text 1000, Health Source Plus, MAS Full text Elite (aimed at H.S.), Middle Search Plus, Primary Search, Books In Print, and Facts On File

Gale Research: Associations Unlimited, Biography & Genealogy Master Index, Contemporary Authors, Discovering Authors Modules, Encyclopedia of Associations, Exploring Shakespeare, Gale Business Resources, Gale Database of Publications & Broadcast Media, Gale Directory of Databases, Research Centers and Services Directory

H.W. Wilson: Applied Science & Technology Abstracts, Art Abstracts, Biological & Agricultural Index, Biography Index, Book Review Digest, Wilson Business Abstracts, Cumulative Book Index, Education Abstracts, Essay & General Literature Index, General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature, Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts

Information Access Company: General Business File, General Reference Center, Health Reference Center, and Books In Print.

OCLC FirstSearch:
Current FirstSearch subscribers: OCLC Base Package (ArticleFirst, ContentsFirst, ERIC, FastDoc, GPO Monthly Catalog, MEDLINE, NetFirst, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, WorldCat), EBSCO MasterFILE, H.W.Wilson (Applied Science & Technology Abstracts, Art Abstracts, Biological & Agricultural Index, Biography Index, Book Review Digest, Wilson Business Abstracts, Education Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature, Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts).

Nonsubscribers: Will have access from February 1 - March 31. OCLC Base Package (ArticleFirst, ContentsFirst, ERIC, FastDoc, GPO Monthly Catalog, MEDLINE, PapersFirst, ProceedingsFirst, WorldCat), EBSCO Mags, H.W.Wilson (Applied Science & Technology Abstracts, Art Abstracts, Biological & Agricultural Index, Biography Index, Book Review Digest, Wilson Business Abstracts, Education Abstracts, General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, Library Literature, Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts).

SIRS (Social Issues Resources Series): SIRS Researcher

UMI: ABI/INFORM - Global Edition, Periodical Abstracts - Research II Edition, Resource/One, Newspaper Abstracts

Fall '97 Trial Databases

Current Contents - 9/1/97-10/31/97
Electric Library - 9/1/97-12/31/97
Encyclopedia Americana - 9/1/97-10/31/97
Encyclopedia Britannica - 1/1/97-12/12/97
Newsbank - 9/1/97-10/31/97
Ovid - 9/1/97-11/31/97

66 libraries took part in the Fall '97 Database Trials.

Current Contents: (Current Contents can be accessed via Ovid and/or IAC.) Current Contents takes the table of contents, bibliographic information and abstracts from more than 7,000 international research journals and 1,700 books annually. Current Contents covers 250 disciplines in the sciences, the social sciences, and the arts and humanities. It covers current and retrospective data including 300 million references cited in 24 million source items. Current Contents document delivery system offers thousands of full text and image documents.

Electric Library: Electric Library is the most comprehensive and easiest-to-use online reference tool for researchers of all ages. The breadth and depth of Electric Library's sources will meet the needs of even the most diverse populations, providing immediate, relevant results to research questions on virtually any topic.

Encyclopedia Americana: Encyclopedia Americana is an information service offering instant access to the resources of America's first and foremost reference collection including more than 100,000 fully researched hyperlinks to the World Wide Web.

Encyclopedia Britannica:(Static IP address is required.) Encyclopedia Britannica is a collection of references that are fully searchable and browsable. The collection includes Britannica's latest article database, hundreds of articles not found in the print Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the Britannica Book of the Year, and thousands of links to other World Wide Web sites.

Newsbank: Newsbank is a leading publisher of original research material and the largest provider of newspapers on CD-ROM.

Databases available: Curriculum Resource, Newsfile Popular Periodicals, Newsfile Collection

Ovid: Only Available for Academic and Public Libraries. Ovid offers a single access point to a number of databases. One interface means easy, effective and practical access to information.

Databases available for a 30 day trial: Core Biomedical Collection, Biomedical Collection II, Biomedical Collection III, Biomedical Collection IV, Nursing Collection, Mental Health Collection, PsycInfo

Databases available for a 60 day trial: Ageline, AidsLine, CINAHL, Combined Health Information Database, Current Contents--All Editions, Health Reference Center, HealthStar, MDX Health Digest, Medline, MLA Bibliography.

Spring '98 Trial Databases:

African American Biographical Databases (Chadwyck-Healey) - 1/15/98 -2/28/98
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts 3/1/98-3/31/98 (for academic libraries only)
Congressional Compass (CIS) - 2/2/98-3/13/98
Health Reference Center (IAC) - 2/1/98-3/31/98
Health Reference Center-Academic (IAC) - 2/1/98-3/31/98
Health Source Plus (EBSCO) - 2/1/98-3/31/98
¡Informe! (IAC) - 2/1/98-3/31/98
International Index to Music Periodicals (Chadwyck-Healey)- 3/1/98-4/30/98
Literature Online (Chadwyck-Healey)- 3/1/98-4/30/98
Omaha World Herald (UMI- ProQuest Direct) 2/12/98-3/20/98
PolicyFile (Chadwyck-Healey)- 3/1/98-4/30/98
SIRS Researcher (Social Issues Resource Series Inc. (SIRS)) - 2/1/98-3/31/98
TOPICsearch (EBSCO) - 2/1/98-3/31/98

More then 100 libraries across the state participated in the Spring '98 Database Trials.

African American Biographical Database (Chadwyck-Healey): is a landmark resource for African-American studies, including genealogy, covering over 40,000 biographical sketches of 30,000 African-Americans. Drawn from over 350 monographs and other sources, the initial file will cover 1790-1950. Based on Chadwyck-Healey's acclaimed Black Biographical Dictionaries and updated with additional new entries bimonthly--10,000 additional entries within the first year--AABD will continually grow, with records from the Tuskegee and Hampton collections and links to further Web resources coming in early 1998. The database is searchable by name, occupation, place of birth, date of birth and death, and will allow for full-text search of the files.
 
Cambridge Scientific Abstracts: provides information to keep you current in major areas of scientific research - every important scientific development, as reported in published literature worldwide, is easily available.
 
Congressional Compass (Congressional Universe) (CIS): is the most comprehensive Web-based source for information from and about the United States Congress. This service provides the indexing and abstracts of the CIS/Index to congressional working papers and legislation from the last 25 years. Congressional Compass also gives students and other researchers access to a wide variety of information about Congress including member biographical and committee assignment information, voting records, financial data, and the full text of the Congressional Record. In addition, access is provided to the full text of key regulatory and statutory resources. There are Hot Topics and Hot Bills features on controversial current issues and legislative proposals. Designed with students in mind, Congressional Compass is easy to use, even for novice users, and it offers both keyword searching and extensively cross-referenced vocabulary. Detailed help is available for using the service as well as for understanding the legislative process and different types of congressional documents. Students and professors can access Congressional Compass from libraries, dorm rooms, and offices--wherever a computer is linked to the campus network. There are no limits on connect time or simultaneous users.

Health Reference Center (IAC): is a one-stop, multi-source reference center for health and wellness research. An HIRC Award winner, Health Reference Center integrates a greater variety of current, full text sources than any competing database: medical journals, consumer health magazines, health newsletters, reference books, referral information, topical overviews, pamphlets, and newspaper articles. Designed especially for lay research, Health Reference Center provides unrivaled depth and breadth of information in terms that everyone can understand. InfoTrac's powerful, intuitive search features make it easy to link between different source types and pinpoint relevant informational in one self-service process. And with its regular updates, Health Reference Center makes it easy to offer the most current, reliable health information available.

Health Reference Center-Academic (IAC): This full text, multi-source database provides single-search access to the wide variety of health information sources in Health Reference Center plus 40 full text nursing and allied health journals. Health Reference Center--Academic integrates the full text of respected nursing, allied health, and medical journals; consumer health magazines; reference books; newsletters; pamphlets; newspaper articles; referral information; and topical overviews. And with InfoTrac's intuitive linking between sources, users can quickly find the information they need, all in the privacy of a self-service reference system.

Health Source Plus (EBSCO): offers coverage of general health magazines as well as professional health care journals. This reference database features: searchable full text for over 200 titles including The New England Journal of Medicine (CD-ROM only) and The Lancet, covering nearly 150,000 articles; abstracts and indexing for nearly 500 general health, nutrition, and professional health care titles, covering over 400,000 articles; USP Pharmacopoeia DI: Volume II Advice for the Lay Patient; and searchable full text for nearly 1,000 health-related pamphlets.
 
¡Informe! (Revistas en Español) (IAC): is the first reference database to provide indexing, full text, and images of the most popular Hispanic magazines. It also includes full text pamphlets on a variety of topics, such as health care. Not only that, Informe's Spanish thesaurus and interface were created especially for Spanish speakers, based on InfoTrac's well known user interface. ¡Informe! also features bilingual citations to help non-Spanish speaking staff, or students of Spanish, navigate easily through the database.

International Index to Music Periodicals (Chadwyck-Healey): IIMP draws its current content from more than 350 international music periodicals from over 20 countries, and also indexes feature music articles and obituaries appearing in The New York Times and The Washington Post. IIMP covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes. See the Title List for periodicals included. Every IIMP record in the current file (1996 forward) contains an abstract

Literature Online (Chadwyck-Healey ): combines hundreds of thousands of fully-searchable texts, with reference works, bibliographies and catalogues on a single site, and provides hypertext links to relevant resources on other websites.
 
Omaha World Herald:(UMI) access the full text of the paper using UMI's ProQuest Direct.
 
PolicyFile (Chadwyck-Healey): collects data from world renowned public policy think tanks including the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Cato Institute, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Economic Strategy Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institute, Hudson Institute, International Monetary Fund, RAND Corporation, Urban Institute and the World Bank; university research program and publishers. Dozens of sources are combined to provide the user with a database of thousands of abstracts, fully searchable and linked via the World Wide Web.
 
SIRS Researcher (Social Issues Resource Series (SIRS)): is a general database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Articles are carefully selected from more than 1,200 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. Brief summaries accompany all articles added to the database since 1994. It will be available directly from SIRS,via IAC, and via OCLC FirstSearch.

TOPICsearch (EBSCO): Explore social, political and economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms with TOPICsearch. This current events database includes: 40,000 full text documents carefully selected by our staff of librarians and teachers, 2,500 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, EBSCO's unparalleled periodicals collection, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, government information and EBSCO's Current Issues database.

Summer '98 Trial Databases:

LifeCenter - 7/1/98-7/31/98

LifeCenter is an interactive WEB based research tool for the most frequently asked reference questions; whether a library user is shopping for a car, writing a resume, buying a refrigerator, or looking to enter the work of mutual funds, LifeCenter will answer approximately 90% of the questions your reference desk gets. At least it will be a good start! LifeCenter filters out most of the junk on the Web today and organizes the rest to make the library users search with more relevancy. LifeCenter organizes the Web into areas that users can readily understand and uses pathways that are logical.

Fall '98 Trial Databases:

Book Review Digest (H.W. Wilson) - 9/1/98-11/31/98
Index to Legal Periodicals (H.W. Wilson) - 9/1/98-11/31/98
Library Literature (H.W. Wilson) - 9/1/98-11/31/98
NoveList - 10/1/98-10/31/98
Poem Finder - 10/1/98-10/31/98
Wilson Biographies (H.W. Wilson) - 9/1/98-11/31/98
World Book Online - 10/8/98-10/31/98

123 libraries across the state participated in the Fall '98 Database Trials.

Book Review Digest is a bibliographic database that cites and provides excerpts of reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books. A summary of the book is also provided. This database indexes reviews from more than 89 leading periodicals published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.

Index to Legal Periodicals indexes the content of a line-up of periodicals from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Australia-- plus approximately 1,000 monographs per year -- to meet the research needs of attorneys, law professors, librarians, law students, paralegals, and others involved with the law.

Library Literature covers 234 key journals (in English and other languages) and more than 600 individual books a year. Individual book chapters are also indexed. It includes conference proceedings, selected state journals, and library school theses. Topics include censorship, public relations, preservation, copyright legislation, automation, cataloging and classification, and electronic searching.

NoveList is an online readers' advisory tool that helps readers find new books based on books they've read or topics in which they are interested. Readers enter a title or author they like, or describe a book they would like to read, and NoveList finds books in its database with matching subject headings.

Poem Finder is the largest, most comprehensive and most current poetry database available. It is international in scope, and covers poetry from antiquity to the present. It is a one-stop resource for locating more than a 1/2 million poems.

Wilson Biographies offers the quality of Wilson editorial standards, comprehensive coverage of over 38,000 figures from antiquity to the present, plus searchability by name, profession, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, date of birth, keyword. What’s more, the database grows by 800 to 1,000 figures per annual update.

World Book Online articles are designed to meet the reference and study needs of students of all ages. This thoroughly researched information has been augmented by thousands of full-color photographs and illustrations, detailed and engaging video and animations, hundreds of sounds, 3-D virtual experiences, a complete atlas, links to thousands of editor-approved web sites, and links to current articles from several leading periodicals.

Spring '99 Trial Databases:

EBSCO - through 2/14/99 (schools only)
Gale Group - through 5/18/99
H.W. Wilson - through 4/30/99
Standard & Poor's Advantage - 2/1/99-3/31/99

EBSCO

  • MAS Ultra Online Package - EBSCO's high school database providing over 530 full text magazines designed for high school students. This Package also includes Health Source Plus, which consists of over 260 full text health-related magazines; Newspaper Source, with selected full text for 114 newspapers including Omaha World-Herald (business news ONLY); TOPICsearch, which explores social, political, and economic issues as well as scientific discoveries; and ERIC, a resource created by the Educational Resource Information Center. Includes unlimited and remote access.
  • Middle Search Plus - A database of more than 80 full text magazines and indexing and abstracts for over 180 magazines. It also contains over 1,100 Essential Documents of American History; coverage of the CIA World Factbook (including maps of the most countries in the world); coverage of USA Today; Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia and much more. Includes unlimited and remote access.
  • Primary Search - A database designed for the young researcher with over fifty full text magazines geared toward the elementary school student. It also includes two World Almanac books; over 1,100 Essential Documents of American History; Funk and Wagnall's New Encyclopedia and coverage of the CIA World Factbook (including maps of most countries in the world). Coming this spring, Searchasaurus, a kid-friendly interface. Includes unlimited and remote access.

Gale Group - The trial included access to databases such as: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Literature Resource Center, What Do I Read Next, Expanded Academic ASAP, and General Reference Center Gold.

H.W. Wilson - The trial included access to Wilson OmniFile Full Text Select and Wilson Biographies Plus.

Standard & Poor's Advantage - Standard & Poor's Advantage brings together nine of our most popular investor information products under a single interactive interface. Each Standard & Poor's Net Advantage product contains a wide variety of searchable fields and pre-defined report formats, as well as the ability to create custom searches and portfolios. The nine products included are: Bond Guide, Corporation Records, Dividend Record, Earnings Guide, Industry Surveys, The OUTLOOK, Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, Stock Guide, and Stock Reports.

Fall '99 Trial Databases:

Bell & Howell National Newspapers (27) - 11/15/99-12/15/99
Business Source Elite (EBSCO) - 10/19/99-12/31/99
Chadwyck-Healey - 30-day trials were available
Contemporary Authors - 9/13/99-10/1/99
Kiplinger Special Service - 10/5/99-11/30/99
Lexis-Nexis Scholastic Universe - 4 week trials were available to High Schools
MasterFILE Premier - 10/19/99-12/31/99
netLibrary - 11/9/99-12/10/99
Newspaper Source (EBSCO) - 10/19/99-12/31/99
NoveList (EBSCO) - 8/3/99-9/30/99 and 10/19/99-12/31/99
Pierian Press Databases - 9/22/99-11/15/99
Well-Connected (Nidus Information Services) - Fall 1999

Bell & Howell National Newspapers (27) database provides indexing and abstracting for approximately 44 national newspapers, such as The Christian Science Monitor, The Denver Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. At least 33 of the indexed newspapers include full text. Please note: The Omaha World Herald and USA Today are not standard titles in this package; however, they were included in the package for the duration of the trial.

Academic and public libraries were sent pricing for National Newspapers (5), USA Today (full text from January 1995 to present), and The Omaha World Herald. National Newspapers (5) was a different package than the one we had on trial. K-12 libraries were sent pricing for Proquest Platinum Newspapers, USA Today (full text from January 1995 to present), and The Omaha World Herald.

Business Source Elite (EBSCO) includes 929 full text titles covering business, management and investment periodicals. This rich collection also includes publications covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, regional business, sales and marketing.

Chadwyck-Healey offered trials of the following databases.

  • Literature Online (LION)
  • LION Poetry
  • LION Complete
  • International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text (IIBP Full Text)
  • American Film Institute Catalog (AFI)
  • International Index to Music Periodicals (IIMP)
  • International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text (IIMPFT)
  • International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
  • International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text (IIPAFT)
  • Historical Newspapers Online (HINO)
  • Historical Newspapers Online Full Text (HINOFT)
  • Periodicals Contents Index (PCI)

Contemporary Authors is a bio-bibliographical guide to current writers in fiction, general nonfiction, poetry, journalism, drama, motion pictures, television, and other fields. It provides complete biographical and bibliographical references for more than 90,000 authors in the U.S. and around the world.

Kiplinger Special Service is an Internet subscription service based on The Kiplinger Letter. KSS gives you the same concise, authoritative business forecasts and expert advice that make The Kiplinger Letter the most widely read business outlook letter in the U.S. But KSS also gives you hypertext links to expanded forecasts, source material, and further background detail; additional advice and guidance on how these forecasts can help you profit or protect your interests; and interactive e-mail access to the Kiplinger Editors for personal answers to your business questions. KSS helps managers and professionals make more profitable decisions for their businesses, organizations, or government agencies.

Lexis-Nexis Scholastic Universe is the ‘younger sibling’ of the popular and widely distributed LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe, now used by over five million students at more than 900 colleges and universities in the United States. Scholastic Universe includes modules on News, Legal Research, Legislation and Statistics, specifically tailored to student research needs.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO) is designed specifically for the public library market and includes 1,809 full text periodicals covering general reference, business, health, social sciences, humanities, education, general science, news, current events, multi-cultural issues and much more.

netLibrary is an easy-to-use, web-based system for accessing and retrieving full text reference, scholarly, and professional books. netLibrary provides twenty-four-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week access to the world’s most comprehensive collection of full-text eBooks via standard browser technology—no additional hardware or software is required. Patrons can efficiently search thousands of titles simultaneously, finding multiple references for a subject or topic. netLibrary also allows patrons to view eBooks or check out eBooks online.

Newspaper Source (EBSCO) provides selected full text for 143 U.S. and international newspapers. This collection offers full text from major U.S. newspapers including: The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, The Miami Herald and more. Newspaper Source also includes selected full text coverage of the Omaha World-Herald.

NoveList (EBSCO) is an electronic readers’ advisory resource which assists fiction readers in finding new authors and titles. The product also supports library staff who are working with these readers.

Pierian Press Databases

  • FirstBase - is a full-text and abstracting knowledgebase designed for educational, reference, and recreational use. The full text comes from three sources: carefully selected books that have been re-edited for inclusion in the database; entries on current scientific and technological discoveries and advancements; and re-edited entries from the Congressional Record and other sources, which deal with current social, economic, and political issues (and which become "gateways" to additional content on these issues).
  • A Matter of Fact - contains full-text statistical statements on current social, economic, political, health, and environmental public policy issues. Entries come from more than 1000 print sources as well as a wide range of Web-based resources, such as the Congressional Record and Debates of the Canadian Parliament, to which the entries are linked.
  • PowerFacts - contains empowerment information concerning our local communities and the wider world in which we live. PowerFacts are brief quotes containing statistics on current social, economic, political, health, and environmental topics. They have been extracted from the A Matter of Fact database and simplified for easier use by students in grades 2 - 8.
  • Story Time - includes action stories that demonstrate timeless morals, values, or truisms, which are applicable today. The stories, tales, and fables come from all ages and cultures. Included are many "teaching stories" that were used to instill values in previous generations--values such as "kindness" and "cooperation."
  • Consumers Index - provides access to evaluations, tests, alerts, warnings, and recalls of specific products, services, and facilities as well as abstracts of articles on all aspects of consumerism and consumer protection. Entries provide links to the best print publications and resources for consumers on the Internet.
  • Directory of National Helplines - provides access to empowering information, reliable advice, and timely services that are available nationally to persons who are encountering special needs or personal crises. It is a specialized directory of helplines, faxlines, Web sites (to which entries in the Directory are linked), and other resources.
  • Media Review Digest - is a core media reference tool and standard catalog of media information. Media Review Digest is the most comprehensive guide to reviewed and evaluated non-print media. In addition to coverage of the best reviews in print publications, Media Review Digest also provides access to the finest reviews and related resources accessible via the Web - currently linking to approximately 300,000 full-text reviews.

Well-Connected (Nidus Information Services) is a patient library that covers over 100 in-depth topics on the latest medical information for patients and consumers who are interested in their health. Each report is written and regularly updated by experienced medical writers and reviewed by a physician board at Harvard Medical School. All reports are updated at least once over the course of each year.

Spring '00 Trial Databases:

Bell & Howell (PsychINFO/CINAHL) - 4/7/2000-4/30/2000
CIS History Universe - Four-week trials available
EBSCO - Sixty-day trial (announced 3/20/2000)
EBSCO (PsychINFO) - 4/3/2000-4/30/2000
Facts.com - 4/19/2000-5/31/2000
FirstSearch (PsychINFO) - 4/3/2000-4/30/2000
Gale (K-12) - 3/17/2000-6/15/2000
Grove's Dictionaries Inc. - 4/13/2000-6/1/2000
McGraw-Hill (AccessScience) - 4/19/2000-5/17/2000
netLibrary - 5/1/2000-6/30/2000
Oxford University Press - 3/15/2000-5/15/2000
Project MUSE - 1/15/2000-3/15/2000
Reference USA - 1/21/2000-1/31/2000
SIRS - 3/1/2000-4/30/2000

Bell & Howell

  • PsychINFO Plus Text - Combines the complete PsychINFO database published by the American Psychological Association with full text and images from 260 leading journals. A current subscription to the database is available with backfile from 1984 forward. In addition, two backfile segments (1887-1966 and 1967-1983) are available for a one-time fee. The 260 full-text journals in PsychINFO Plus Text cover a range of disciplines in the field, with titles including the American Journal of Psychology, Educational Psychology, Journal of Marriage and the Family, and Social Behavior and Personality. This content is updated daily. Starting dates for full-text titles range from 1987 to 1998, and new titles will continue to be added.
  • CINAHL Plus Text - CINAHL is the definitive database for nursing and allied health, covering 1,200 leading journals. CINAHL Plus Text includes full text for more than 250 leading journals in nursing.

CIS History Universe - CIS History Universe is a suite of subject-specific "modules" that bring together within a single database primary sources, secondary sources, and related reference information. CIS History Universe premieres with Access to African American Studies, providing information compiled by experts in African American studies, and Access to Primary Sources, providing Web access to the guides to archival microform collections.

EBSCO - EBSCO Publishing offered Nebraska libraries a sixty-day trial of the following databases: MAS FullTEXT Ultra, MAS Online Plus, MAS Online, Newspaper Source, Middle Search Plus, Primary Search, Topic Search, Health Source Plus, Professional Development Collection, ERIC, Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia, EBSCO Animals, MasterFILE Premier, MasterFILE Elite, MasterFILE Select, MAS Ultra--Public Library Edition, Business Source Elite, and Business Source Premier.

EBSCO (PsychINFO) - PsycINFO (1887-Current) contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1887-present, includes international material selected from more than 1,400 periodicals written in over 35 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 55,000 references are added annually through monthly updates.

Facts.com - Facts on File News Service offered Nebraska libraries a trial of their Facts.com service. Facts.com offers users instant access to information about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years. Facts.com delivers: 75,000 full text news articles dating from January 1980; weekly updates from the Facts on File World News Digest; regular wire-service updates from Reuters; selected content from Issues and Controversies On File, Today's Science On File, Editorials On File, The World Almanac, and Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia; and key issues and events features, biographies, maps, photographs, and historic documents.

FirstSearch (PsychINFO) - Offered in three files: 1887-present, 1967-present, and 1984-present. Rich resource for historical research in psychology and related disciplines--now with journal coverage back to 1887. Contains citations and summaries of journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. Over 55,000 references are added monthly. Descriptors from the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms are assigned to records from 1967 to allow precise searching using the language of the discipline. Includes indexed materials from more than 1,400 journals published in 50 countries and 30 languages. Chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987 to the present.

Gale (K-12) - Offered a two-month trial on all their K-12 databases, including the Infotrac K-12 Series and the Student Resource Center databases.

Grove's Dictionaries Inc.

  • The Grove Dictionary of Art Online provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (Grove, 1996, 34 vols.) with quarterly additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference source.
  • The Encyclopedia of Life Sciences will be the largest single reference source ever published in the biological sciences, and is available for online subscription now in a preview format called "Embryonic" Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. In addition, ELS will be published as a 20-volume print set in Fall 2001.
  • The New Grove Dictionary of Opera Online has been recognized as the world’s premier opera reference since its publication in hardcover in 1992, surpassing all others in range and scholarship. The online version was released in June 1999 and contains all the content of the print version, plus many new features.

McGraw-Hill (AccessScience) - AccessScience includes the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology and its corresponding annual yearbooks, the Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, over 2,100 science biographies, news stories from Science News, and McGraw-Hill science editors' selected websites for further research capabilities.

netLibrary is an easy-to-use, web-based system for accessing and retrieving full text reference, scholarly, and professional books. netLibrary provides twenty-four-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week access to the world’s most comprehensive collection of full-text eBooks via standard browser technology—no additional hardware or software is required. Patrons can efficiently search thousands of titles simultaneously, finding multiple references for a subject or topic. netLibrary also allows patrons to view eBooks or check out eBooks online

Oxford University Press

  • American National Biography Online offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. Published in 24 volumes in 1999, the American National Biography won instant acclaim as the new authority in American biographies. Winner of the American Library Association's Dartmouth Medal as the best reference work of the year, the ANB now serves readers in thousands of school, public, and academic libraries around the world. The publication of the online edition makes the ANB even more useful as a dynamic source of information -- updated quarterly, with hundreds of new entries each year and revisions of previously published entries to enhance their accuracy and currency. The ANB Online will also feature thousands of illustrations, more than 80,000 hyperlinked cross-references, links to select web sites, and powerful search capabilities.
  • Oxford English Dictionary Online - The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. In addition to offering unparalleled access to the wealth of material contained in the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and 3-volume Additions Series, OED Online enables the "treasure-house" of the English language to move with the times as never before.

Project MUSE provides worldwide, networked access by institutional subscription to over 110 full text scholarly journals. Titles from ten not-for profit publishers are offered for the 2000 calendar year subscription term, in the areas of the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics. Project MUSE offers access to a number of influential titles in the fields of literary theory and criticism, cultural studies, history, classics, gender studies, performing arts, religious studies, political science and theory, education and philosophy, among others. The online journals include the entire contents of their print counterparts, augmented by advanced search functions, hypertextual linking, enhanced graphics, and campus-wide accessibility.

Reference USA is an Internet business reference database with 11 million businesses on-line. It is updated every third Saturday of the month, has full corporate linkage, fax numbers, 800 numbers and many other powerful searching capabilities. It includes every private, public, non-profit, government agency, manufacturer and much more! Information USA gets information for Reference USA from yellow pages, trade journals, annual reports, sec filings, 10K's, business white pages, government blue pages, newspapers, magazines and more.

SIRS

  • SIRS Researcher - contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. Articles are from 1,500 domestic and international sources. Additional content includes Today's News, Spotlight of the Month, Maps of the World and much more.
  • SIRS Government Reporter - is a valuable source for current and historic government documents, information about federal departments, agencies, elected leaders and more. Government Reporter delivers thousands of full-text documents and graphics concerning a wide variety of topics. Additional content includes U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, Historic Documents, National Archives Documents and more.
  • SIRS Renaissance - provides current, dynamic information on music, literature, film, performing arts, cultures, architecture, philosophy, religion and visual arts. Articles are from more than 700 domestic and international publications. Additional content pertinent to the arts and humanities includes Award Recipients and The New Lifetime Reading Plan.
  • SIRS Discoverer Deluxe - is an award-winning reference database for young researchers grades K-9 which contains articles and graphics from more than 1,200 newspapers, magazines and journals. The database features The World Almanac for Kids, Country Facts, and more. Three reading levels--Easy, Moderate and Challenging--as well as a variety of supplemental educational resources are available.

Fall '00 Trial Databases:

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry - 10/19/2000-11/30/2000
EarthWeb (ITKnowledge) - Thirty-day trials available (announced 8/29/00)
Facts on File Online Databases - 10/17/2000-11/30/2000

Columbia Granger's World of Poetry - The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry provides online access to: The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Anthologies, editions 8-11; The Columbia Granger's Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works; The Columbia Granger's Guide to Poetry Anthologies, 2d edition; The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations; and The Classic Hundred Poems: All-Time Favorites.

EarthWeb (ITKnowledge) - ITKnowledge is an online learning and reference library covering information technology (IT). With over 2,240 titles from over 20 leading publishers, ITKnowledge offers helpful information for every student or faculty member who uses a computer. The service provides in-depth technical information for the technical student as well as easy-to-understand titles on basic tools such as Microsoft Word for the non-technical student. To keep current, ITKnowledge regularly adds new titles and publishers to its service. As of today, four of the publisher relationships are exclusive.

Facts on File Online Databases - Facts On File Online Databases are currently divided into two distinct ranges, comprehensive On-line Encyclopedias and On File™ On-line Databases. The On-line Encyclopedias are interdisciplinary, interactive databases on a wide range of subjects, such as American history, science, multicultural studies, women's studies, geography, and careers. The On File™ On-line Databases, based on the Facts On File print binders, include the publisher's award-winning collection of visual reference material.

Spring '01 Trial Databases:

CQ Press Electronic Reference Library - 4/10/2001-4/30/2001
EBSCO - 4/6/2001-5/31/2001
Gale - 4/9/2001-4/30/2001
MagillOnLiterature - 1/18/2001-5/31/2001
SIRS - 2/12/2001-4/30/2001
Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage - 2/5/2001-2/28/2001

CQ Press Electronic Reference Library

  • CQ Researcher - In-depth analysis reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day. Each issue features a look ahead; a pro-con section that presents opposing viewpoints; a chronology; and annotated bibliographies to point the way to additional research.
  • CQ Weekly - A weekly source on Capitol Hill. The award-winning magazine's legislative news and analysis is consistently hailed for its accuracy and comprehensiveness.
  • Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government - Based on the award-winning A to Z Encyclopedia series, the Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government is a one-stop, easy-to-navigate reference on Congress, the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and U.S. Elections.

EBSCO - EBSCO Publishing offered Nebraska libraries trial access to many of their K-12 products, including: MAS FullTEXT Ultra, Health Source Plus, Newspaper Source, Professional Development Collection, ERIC, Middle Search Plus, Primary Search, and TOPICSearch. These products are all components of the three database packages EBSCO promoted to K-12 libraries this year: Ultra Online Package for High Schools, Middle Online Package for Jr. High and Middle Schools, and Primary Online Package for Elementary Schools. In addition, EBSCO offered Nebraska libraries a trial of NoveList, their online readers' advisory service.

Gale - Offered trials of InfoTrac, GaleNet, and Gale Group in Schools products beginning April 9, 2001 and ending April 30, 2001.

MagillOnLiterature - MagillOnLiterature is the definitive online source for editorially reviewed critical analyses and brief plot summaries of the most studied works in the history of literature. The information in this database equals the complete contents of 31 sets of reference books, including nearly 20 Masterplots and Masterplots II titles, the Cyclopedia of World Authors, the Cyclopedia of Literacy Characters, as well as 10 years of Magill's Literary Annuals and Magill Book Reviews. This database is compiled by Salem Press.

SIRS

  • SIRS Researcher - contains thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, health, historic, business, economic, political and global issues. Articles are from 1,500 domestic and international sources. Additional content includes Today's News, Spotlight of the Month, Maps of the World and much more.
  • SIRS Government Reporter - is a valuable source for current and historic government documents, information about federal departments, agencies, elected leaders and more. Government Reporter delivers thousands of full-text documents and graphics concerning a wide variety of topics. Additional content includes U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, Historic Documents, National Archives Documents and more.
  • SIRS Renaissance - provides current, dynamic information on music, literature, film, performing arts, cultures, architecture, philosophy, religion and visual arts. Articles are from more than 700 domestic and international publications. Additional content pertinent to the arts and humanities includes Award Recipients and The New Lifetime Reading Plan.
  • SIRS Discoverer Deluxe - is an award-winning reference database for young researchers grades K-9 which contains articles and graphics from more than 1,200 newspapers, magazines and journals. The database features The World Almanac for Kids, Country Facts, and more. Three reading levels--Easy, Moderate and Challenging--as well as a variety of supplemental educational resources are available.
  • SIRS NetSelect - is an online database of Internet resources providing access to quality Web sites on almost any subject. Each site is evaluated for credibility and relevance to researchers' needs. Summaries provide a concise overview of site content and authority. Keyword, Subject Heading and Topic Browse searches can be performed.

Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage - This service provides access to 11 premier financial/business databases. From company reports to bond ratings, from industry trends to executive biographies, Standard & Poor's Advantage provides the comprehensive, accurate information necessary for smart decision making. Databases available through this service include: Bond Guide; Corporation Records; Dividend Record; Earnings Guide; Industry Surveys; Mutual Fund Reports; The Outlook; Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives; Security Dealers Directory; Stock Guide; and Standard & Poor's Stock Reports.

Fall '01 Trial Databases

ALLDATA - 9/1/01-9/30/01
Chilton's Auto Library - 11/1/01-11/30/01
CQ Press - 11/1/01-11/30/01
Emerald - 12/1/01-12/31/01
Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics - 9/15/01-10/31/01
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - 9/15/01-10/31/01
Facts.com - 10/1/01-10/31/01
Groves Dictionary of Art Online - 9/15/01-10/31/01
Grove Music Library - 9/15/01-10/31/01
H.W. Wilson - 11/1/01-3/31/02
Journal Web-Cite - 11/1/01-11/30/01
LearnATest - 9/3/01-10/2/01
Poemfinder - 9/17/01-10/15/01
Polling the Nation - 9/1/01-10/31/01
PsycARTICLES - 11/1/01-11/30/01
Reference USA - 12/12/01-1/12/02
Scientific American Archive Online - 9/15/01-10/30/01

ALLDATA - ALLDATA provides a variety of automotive repair information including: technical service bulletins, original equipment diagrams, maintenance schedules, and parts and labor estimating.

Chilton's Auto Library - Chilton's Auto Library incorporates 16 years of automobile information dating back to 1985.  The Web-based database, available by annual subscription, allows users to pinpoint repair and maintenance information for specific automobile models and years.  Repair information for each model is organized into such categories as: general information and maintenance, engine electrical, engine and engine overhaul, emission controls, fuel systems, chassis electrical, drive train, suspension and steering, brakes, and body and trim.  In addition, Chilton's Auto Library provides access to some 50,000 technical service bulletins, maintenance schedules and specification charts, complete wiring diagrams (including some 60,000 diagrams), and labor time estimates.

CQ Press - The CQ Press Electronic Reference Library provides access to the following Congressional Quarterly electronic reference products:

  • CQ Researcher - In-depth analysis reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day. Each issue features a look ahead; a pro-con section that presents opposing viewpoints; a chronology; and annotated bibliographies to point the way to additional research.
  • CQ Weekly - A weekly source on Capitol Hill. The award-winning magazine's legislative news and analysis is consistently hailed for its accuracy and comprehensiveness.
  • Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government - Based on the award-winning A to Z Encyclopedia series, the Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government is a one-stop, easy-to-navigate reference on Congress, the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and U.S. Elections.
  • Electronic Washington Information Directory - contact and descriptive for over 5,000 agencies, offices, committee, nonprofits and individuals in Washington, D.C.
  • Public Affairs Collection - public policy content organized into 22 topics with historic documents, primary sources, statistic, and directory information.

Emerald - The Emerald database contains the full text of journal articles from more than 130 MCB University Press journals from 1994 to date, in both HTML and PDF format.  In addition abstracts are also provided for articles back to 1989. This makes a growing library of over 35,000 articles, updated on a weekly basis in advance of the printed journal.

Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics - Macmillan Online Publishing's Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics contains over 2,500 peer-reviewed articles and news.

Encyclopedia of Life Sciences - "Encyclopedia of Life Sciences Online combines ease of accessibility with continually updated information, providing user-friendly web access to over 3,000 articles across the life sciences."

Facts.com - FACTS.com offered Nebraska libraries one month of trial access to their FACTS.com Reference Suite. The Reference Suite @ FACTS.com delivers (4) complete classic library reference databases: The Facts On File World News Digest (1940 - Present); Issues and Controversies On File; Today's Science On File; and The World Almanac Reference Database
 
Grove Dictionary of Art Online - "The Grove Dictionary of Art Online provides Web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996, 34 vols.) with constant additions of new material and updates to the text, plus extensive image links and all the sophisticated search advantages possible with an online reference source."
 
Grove Music Library - Macmillan Online Publishing offered Nebraska libraries one month of trial access to their Grove Music Library on the Web. Access includes the full content of The New Grove II and Grove Opera and in 2002, the addition of The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition. The resource includes: 29 million words on all aspects of music; over 4000 illustrations; over 3000 links to related sites; advanced search capabilities; A-Z browse for easy access; a programme of quarterly and annual updates; and the complete text of The New Grove Dictionary of Opera.

H.W. Wilson - H.W. Wilson offered Nebraska libraries trial access to a number of their databases, including: AMICO, Readers' Guide Retrospective, Biography Reference Bank, Short Story Index, Essay and General Literature Index, Public Library Catalog, Fiction Catalog, Children's Catalog, Middle & Junior High School Library Catalog, and Senior High School Library Catalog.

Journal Web-Cite - Journal Web-Cite is an  online management tool that allows you to show your patrons an online listing of titles you have available in your library.  The listing includes those titles found in various electronic databases.  The product also provides searching and management reporting capabilities.  Journal Web-Cite updates its information as journal aggregators change their holdings so your patron can get the most up to date information on what is available in your various electronic databases.

LearnATest - "LearnATest.com/ Library is the leading source of test preparation materials and interactive practice exams, based on official tests, that will help you improve your scores on academic, civil service, military, and professional licensing and certification exams. We provide immediate scoring, complete answer explanations, and individualized analysis of your score." (From the LearnATest.com site)

Poemfinder - The database currently has 85,000 full-text poems and 800,000 poem citations. Search methods include: Basic Search; Advanced Search; Subject Navigator; The Year's Best Poetry; and Kids' Korner. In addition to the basic database the new add-on module "Story Finder" is available free to subscribers. Story Finder includes: Thousands of full-text short stories; Genre Navigator; Just Published Stories; Explanations; Biographies; Pictures.

Polling the Nations - Polling the Nations is an online database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 400,000 questions and responses from 14,000 surveys conducted by 700 polling organizations since 1986 in the U.S. and 80 other countries. Questions are individually indexed in one of 4,500 plus topics and six search fields: Topic, question text, universe, date, polling organization and response categories.

PsycARTICLES - PsycARTICLES® is an online database covering general psychology and specialized basic, applied, clinical, and theoretical research in psychology.  It includes searchable, full text articles from 42 journals published by APA and allied organizations. Over 25,000 articles are available from 1988 to the present with earlier years currently in production.

Reference USA - Reference USA is fast becoming the most widely used internet source for information in companies and libraries today. FORBES MAGAZINE ("Best of Web" special issue dated May 20, 2000) ranked infoUSA.com's deep business database of 12 million businesses as one of its best content features, in addition to recommending the company's yellow and white page directories and business credit reports. Reference USA offers cutting edge, advanced technology with the power to meet the demands of many users. Enjoy instant real-time access to the world's finest database of every business across the nation, 120 million households and over 650,000 physicians, surgeons and dentists across the nation as well as Canadian Business and residential information with unparalleled coverage and accuracy.

Scientific American Archive Online - "The archive currently contains the entire editorial contents of Scientific American Magazine, from January 1993 through to the present." Articles are presented in PDF format.

Spring '02 Trial Databases

bigchalk - 3/14/02 - 5/31/02
EDRS - 4/15/02 - 4/29/02
Gale - 4/1/02 - 5/31/02
Genealogy & Local History Online / HeritageQuest (ProQuest) - 4/15/02 - 5/31/02
Newsbank - 1/18/02 - 2/28/02
Oxford Reference Online - 30-day trials beginning mid-March
PoemFinder / World's Best Poetry - 1/17/02-2/15/02
Ulrich's Periodical Directory - 3/4/02-3/29/02

bigchalk

EDRS - E*Subscribe provides access to electronic images of ERIC documents. Subscribers can search the ERIC database and download ERIC document images based on database search results. Documents from 1996 forward are available through the Base Subscription. These include ERIC Level 1 documents (those cleared by the  contributor for distribution in all media), and Level 2A (documents restricted to dissemination on microfiche and in electronic subscriptions only)--about 95% of the collection. The years 1993 to 1995 are available as a backfile set.

Gale - offered Nebraska libraries trial access to a number of their databases, including: Ancestry Plus, Business & Company Resource Center, Literature Resource Center and Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.

Genealogy & Local History Online / HeritageQuest (ProQuest) - is an unique collection of genealogical material from Bell & Howell, including family histories, genealogical serials, local history and primary sources with full images. The database includes over 7.5 million searchable pages.

Newsbank

Oxford Reference Online - Oxford Reference Online - The Core Collection brings together 100 well-known and trusted reference works--the equivalent of more than 60,000 pages--into a single, fully searchable, cross-referenced, accessible database of over 1.5 million entries.

PoemFinder / World's Best Poetry - Roth Publishing provided trial access to the following products:

Ulrich's Periodical Directory - ulrichsweb.com, the online version of Ulrich's Periodicals Directory, is a bibliographic database providing detailed, comprehensive, and authoritative information on serials published throughout the world. It covers all subjects, and includes publications that are published regularly or irregularly and are circulated free of charge or by paid subscription. The web version contains several new searchable and browseable indexes, such as language and frequency, that are not available in the print version. On the web version, users can link to related serials for alternate titles and related media titles, as well as tens of thousands of URLs, and e-mail addresses. The web version is designed to handle complex combined searching. The web version also provides usage statistics, the ability to create lists, and e-mail and download functionality in either ASCII text and ASCII-delimited formats.

Fall '02 Trial Databases

Alexander Street Press - 11/8/2002-12/31/2002
bigchalk - 10/16/2002-11/30/2002
BioOne - 8/30/2002-11/30/2002
FirstSearch - 9/23/2002-11/30/2002
H.W. Wilson - 9/5/2002-11/30/2002
INET Library / INET Classroom - 8/30/02-9/30/02
NewsBank - 10/17/2002-11/17/2002
OriginalSources - 10/16/2002-11/30/2002
Safari Tech Books Online - 9/1/02-9/30/02
 

Alexander Street Press - The Greater Western Library Alliance and Alexander Street Press offered Nebraska libraries free trial access and pricing for a number of electronic resources, including:

bigchalk offered Nebraska libraries free trial access to a number of their online products, including:

BioOne - BioOne is a unique aggregation of high-impact bioscience research journals. As an innovative collaboration among scientific societies, libraries, academe and the commercial sector, BioOne is working to help transform the scholarly communication process by providing expanded access to scientific research results. BioOne provides integrated, cost-effective access to a thoroughly linked information resource of interrelated journals focused on the biological, ecological and environmental sciences. 

FirstSearch - FirstSearch provides access to more than 70 A&I and full-text databases. Using the easy-to-use FirstSearch interface, patrons can search a host of well-known bibliographic, full-text, and ready reference databases and then view links to library holdings, whether print or electronic. The Electronic Collections Online service offers access to more than 4,000 full-image electronic journals. Electronic Collections Online is particularly powerful in combination with FirstSearch, as any citation from a subscribed ECO journal shows a link to the full-text article. In addition, Electronic Collections Online offers a terrific archiving solution -- your library retains the right to access all journals to which you have subscribed even after you discontinue subscriptions to any of them. Trial users had access the full suite of FirstSearch databases as well as the thousands of Electronic Collections Online titles offered by OCLC. (Please note, however, that PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES access through the Nebraska Library Commission trial ran from November 1 through November 30 only).

H.W. Wilson offered Nebraska libraries trial access to the following databases:

INET Library / INET Classroom - INET Classroom provides several tools in one integrated system: Curriculum Builder; Web-Texts - aligned to your state standards; Ready, Set, Test!; INET Advisor; INET Library

NewsBank

OriginalSources - is the premiere online educational reference site for students, teachers and scholars interested in the original source documents of human knowledge, featuring 12 collections in the fields of World History, U.S. History, Science, Mathematics, Social Studies, Fine Arts, Literature, Language Arts, Law, Foreign Language, Philosophy and Religion. With thousands of books, documents, pictures and works, OriginalSources gives you instant access to the best recorded thoughts and achievements of human history. [from the Western Standard Publishing Company home page]

Safari Tech Books Online - "Safari Tech Books Online offers an exclusive collection of highly acclaimed reference content from the two premier IT publishers, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., and The Pearson Technology Group, with imprints including Addison-Wesley Professional, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, New Riders, Peachpit Press, Prentice Hall PTR, Que, and Sams. Together, O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., and The Pearson Technology Group’s imprints deliver well over half the IT books published. Hundreds of books are loaded now growing to thousands as new books are published. In most cases, new titles are available in Safari Tech Books Online even before they appear in print." (from ProQuest's Safari Tech Books Online Product Detail web page)

Spring '03 Database Trials

CQ Press - 3/17/03-4/30/03
EBSCO - 3/1/03-3/31/03
FactsforLearning - 4/10/03-5/6/03
FirstSearch - 3/4/03-4/30/03
Gale K-12 Resources - 4/9/2003-5/15/2003
Gold Rush - 2/19/03-3/31/03
Hoover's Online - 2/6/03-2/28/03
ProQuest - 3/28/03-4/30/03
Roth Publishing's Lit Finder - 4/14/03-5/16/03
SIRS - 3/6/03-5/4/03
World & I Educational Resource and Archive - 4/10/03-5/15/03

CQ Press -

EBSCO

FactsforLearning - FactsforLearning is designed to help student learn and use reference skills. It offers separate modules for elementary and middle schools. The elementary module contains a special section called "Using the Library." The elementary and middle school modules both contain a wealth of curriculum, activity and study material from Weekly Reader publications. FactsforLearning brings together content from:

FirstSearch

Gale K-12 Resources - Gale offered Nebraska libraries trial access to the following resources:

Gold Rush - "Gold Rush is a new suite of web-based tools to help librarians better manage subscriptions to electronic resources.  Gold Rush helps patrons find what content is embedded within these resources through a Web-based public search interface and through a full functioning link resolver (OpenURL compliant). Library staff can use Gold Rush to help manage their subscriptions to electronic resources, compare the content of title lists between different electronic products and can manage the content of their public interface and link resolver."

Hoover's Online - Using this online business information service users can:

ProQuest

Roth Publishing's Lit Finder - provides access to the following three literature databases:

SIRS

World & I Educational Resource and Archive - The online subscription package includes the following:

Fall '03 Database Trials

AccessMedicine - 10/28/03-11/30/03
AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive - 9/25/03-10/31/03
CQ Electronic Library - 11/7/03-11/30/03
CultureGrams - 10/8/03-11/8/03-11/30/03
EBSCO - 10/27/03-1/30/03
H.W. Wilson - 10/1/03-11/30/03
Oxford University Press - 9/29/03-11/30/03

AccessMedicine - McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com is an innovative online resource that provides complete references and services for physicians, students, and health professionals who need immediate access to authoritative and current medical data - UPDATED DAILY!  The service's central resource is a repository of medical knowledge from internal medicine, cardiology, genetics, pharmacy, diagnosis and management, basic sciences, patient care, and more. Continuously expanding, all databases in the repository contain the latest editions of world-class medical titles respected for their excellence in both print and online formats.

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive - is offering Nebraska libraries trial access to two databases:

All content is licensed with copyright release for educational use. Access to the AP Multimedia Archive will continue to enhance and visually lead to core curriculum objectives, while inducing student participation, classroom discussions, and increasing student’s comprehension, recall skills, assignments and test scores.

CQ Electronic Library - The CQEL search gives patrons the ability to find relevant documents in all CQEL products through a single search screen. (Of course, users will still want to visit the individual products to take full advantage of the unique, sophisticated relational database features and searches in each!) Users can focus their keyword searches by choosing any combination of CQEL products, broad topics, document types, or dates.

CQEL consists of the following databases:

CultureGrams Online Edition - combines online access to all World, Kids, and States CultureGrams editions:

EBSCO - This trial included the following databases:

H.W. Wilson - H.W. Wilson offered Nebraska libraries trial access to the following databases:

Oxford University Press - This trial included the following databases:

Spring '04 Database Trials

Gale - 4/20/2004-6/20/2004
Learning Express Business Writing/Job & Career Help Center - 2/24/04-3/31/04
Learning Express High School High School Package - 3/11/04-4/30/04
ProQuest (eLibrary Curriculum Edition, HeritageQuest, ProQuest Nursing Journals) - 3/1/04-4/29/04

Gale - Thompson Gale is offering Nebraska libraries trial access to the following databases:

Learning Express Business Writing/Job & Career Help Center - LearningExpress, the company behind LearnATest, is offering Nebraska libraries a 30-day free trial of the online courses available through their Business Writing Help Center and their Job & Career Help Center. 

These courses include:

Learning Express High School Package -

LearningExpress, the company behind LearnATest, is offering Nebraska libraries trial access to a package of test preparation and skill- building resources for high school libraries. Featured resources include:

ProQuest

Fall '04 Database Trials

AP MultiMedia Archive - 11/10/2004-12/31/2004
CountryWatch - 11/4/2004-12/17/2004
Fact on File - 9/20/2004-10/20/2004
H.W. Wilson - 10/13/2004-10/29/2004
Westlaw Campus - 10/1/2004-11/15/2004

AP MultiMedia Archive - an electronic library containing the Associated Press' current year's photo report and a selection of images from their vast negative and print library dating from the 1840s. Today, the Multimedia Archive contains over 700,000 photos, most of which are contemporary images made since late 1995, and grows daily as hundreds of new photos enter the Multimedia Archive from AP's worldwide picture report.

CountryWatch - CountryWatch is an online subscription service that provides continuously updated geopolitical, economic, social, business and environmental information on 192 countries of the world. CountryWatch delivers this content through the following features:

Facts on File - offered Nebraska libraries a free 30-day trial of the following databases:

H.W. Wilson - The H.W. Wilson Company is offering Nebraska libraries trial access to the following databases:

Westlaw Campus - Westlaw Campus is a fast, efficient version of the same Westlaw preferred by the majority of American Bar Association members across the country. With Westlaw Campus, students have instant access to American Law Reports, a unique research tool that collects and analyzes every court case decided on a particular point of law; American Jurisprudence, a comprehensive encyclopedia of state and federal law; more full-text current and archived articles from hundreds of leading law reviews and journals than any other resource; the complete laws and statutes of the federal government and all 50 states, as published in the United States Code Annotated, as well as the popular name tables and indexes for those laws; all federal regulations published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations; all precedent-setting court decisions of the federal and state courts, as presented in the National Reporter System®; and KeyCite®, an integrated tool that shows whether any case, statute, or regulation is still good law. For more information on Westlaw Campus, visit http://west.thomson.com/westlaw/campus.

Spring '05 Database Trials

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive - 3/15/2005 - 4/30/2005
FirstSearch - 3/8/2005 - 4/30/2005
Gale - 3/15/2005 - 4/14/2005
H.W. Wilson Education Full Text
H.W. Wilson Education Index Retrospective 1929-1983
LearningExpress Advantage - 3/9/2005 - 4/30/2005
LearningExpress Writing Improvement Programs - 3/29/2005 - 4/30/2005
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - 3/1/2005 - 3/31/2005
p4A Antiques Reference Database - 3/28/2005 - 4/30/2005
Xreferplus - 4/28/2005 - 6/15/2005

AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive - is an on line multimedia database that provides a sensory journey of photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history as seen through the eyes of the Associated Press. From simple keyword searching to more complex searches such as concept, color, and category, students will enhance research projects with over one million photographs dating back to 1826 and as current as a few moments ago, tens of thousands of graphics, audio files dating from the 1920’s, and news stories dating from 1997. Teachers will benefit from the correlation of the Archive to the National Standards for Learning.

FirstSearch - In anticipation of the annual June renewal for the OCLC Nebraska FirstSearch Group, OCLC offered Nebraska libraries trial access to a select group of FirstSearch databases not included in the base package provided by NEBASE.  Following is a list of databases available during the trial:

Gale - offered Nebraska libraries trial access to the following databases:

H.W. Wilson Education Full Text - brings you comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs and yearbooks. Full text of articles cover to cover, from hundreds of journals, make this a one-stop source for research.

H.W. Wilson Education Index Retrospective, 1929-1983 - This new database provides more than half a century of cover-to-cover indexing for an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Combine Education Index Retrospective with Education Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, or Wilson OmniFile databases for a century of research.

LearningExpress Advantage - is an indispensable online tool designed to increase students’ scores on college entrance and high stakes exams. Whether incorporated as an essential part of the classroom, or used for independent study, your students will benefit by strengthening the skills they need to succeed.  A school site license to LearningExpress Advantage includes:

LearningExpress Writing Improvement Programs - offer writers from elementary school students through adults unique opportunities to improve their writing skills by providing instant online scoring and analysis of their writing. All writers can improve their skills by receiving structured feedback on their work. Now, through the LearningExpress Writing Improvement Programs, patrons have unlimited access to immediate feedback so they can understand areas that need improvement. Complementing this unique opportunity, patrons of all ages--adults, as well as students in middle school and high school--can learn and practice the 5-step writing process with this highly interactive tutorial course series. Writers can complete one of the available essays before starting the course to pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses of their writing. Then, they may try writing another essay when the course has been completed to track their improvement. The LearningExpress Writing Improvement Programs offer:

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center - draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Thomson Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources, including selections from Bioethics for Students. The result is a dynamic online library of current event topics—the facts, as well as the arguments, of each topic's proponents and detractors. OVRC's unique features include Topic Overviews—frameworks that allow students to explore each topic's many facets—and exclusive electronic access to Thomson Gale's Information Plus reference series of statistics, government data, information on legislation and more.

p4a Antiques Reference database - provides price and background information on antiques, collectibles, fine art, and historic Americana. Data is based on regional auctions throughout the United States. The information in the p4a Antiques Reference database is routinely used to estimate the value of similar items for sale, for purchase or for insurance purposes, to substantiate a formal appraisal, to assist in a family division of property or to learn what was paid for a specific item listed in the database. The p4a Antiques Reference database is used by almost every professional personal property appraiser in the U.S. It is a favored resource at many auction houses, including leaders like Christie's in New York. Many museums and public libraries subscribe to the database, as do official agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service.

Xreferplus - Xrefer delivers technology-enhanced online reference services to libraries and their users worldwide.  The company's customizable subscription service, xreferplus, features authoritative, aggregated content from over 170 reference books and 45 publishers, with 2 million entries covering such subjects as medicine, art, technology and more.  xreferplus adds value with proprietary cross-reference technology ("xreferences") that integrates the content across topics, titles and publishers to provide contextual results.  xreferplus also features information visualization capabilities with the Concept Map, a visual map that displays how search terms and topics in xreferplus are interconnected.  Subscribing libraries also enjoy unlimited simultaneous users, remote access, detailed usage reports and downloadable MARC records.

Fall '05 Database Trials

Daily Life Online Suite - 9/15/2005-10/31/2005
FAITS (Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies) - 9/14/2005-10/15/2005
Greenwood Digital Collection - 9/15/2005-10/31/2005
H.W. Wilson - 10/11/2005-11/15/2005
PriceMiner.com - 9/7/2005-10/7/2005
PsycBOOKS, PsycEXTRA, and PsycCRITIQUES - 9/26/2005-10/26/2005
WetFeet - 11/1/2005-11/30/2005

Daily Life Online Suite - The Daily Life Online family of electronic social history products, consisting of Daily Life through History and World Cultures Today, is a groundbreaking, dynamic resource that provides content from a vast number of reference works, monographs, and primary documents. Based on the landmark Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life and the Cultures and Customs print series, the two Daily Life Online databases are supported by an active publishing program that ensures an ever-expanding and updated base of content. Daily Life through History and World Cultures Today can be purchased separately as individual databases or purchased together as one fully integrated resource at a significant discount. This trial is the combined, fully integrated version.

FAITS (Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies) - FAITS is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind online technology reports library that was created especially for use by the academic community. Continually updated and fully searchable, FAITS contains hundreds of reports that are clearly written, consistent in format, and easy to understand. Reports are designed to help students, educators, and administrators learn about and keep up with the critical issues, trends, market conditions, products, services, and vendors driving the information technology industry. FAITS provides coverage in the following key technology and vendor areas:

  • IT Infrastructure
  • Telecommunications
  • Wireless Technology
  • Data Networking
  • Convergence
  • Security
  • Enterprise Systems
  • The Internet and World Wide Web
  • Technology Vendors

Of special interest to librarians, Faulkner Information Services recently added a new Information Management Module to FAITS. There is no additional cost associated with this new Module, which covers:

  • Information Management Technologies
  • Classification
  • Search
  • Digital Rights Management
  • Information Security
  • Web Development
  • Streaming Media
  • Distance Learning

Greenwood Digital Collection - The Greenwood Digital Collection is a sophisticated research platform comprised of reference, academic and general interest e-books. It features the same high-quality, authoritative, scholarly products that librarians have come to expect from Greenwood. Choose from approximately 3,000 titles from Praeger, Greenwood Press, and Libraries Unlimited, and build your own digital library. You’ll make the most of your budget while giving your patrons a customized resource that’s accessible from any computer. This is not just a collection of PDF downloads, but complete texts — all searchable by keyword, subject, author, title, or any Boolean search method.

H.W. Wilson - The H.W. Wilson Company is offering Nebraska libraries a free trial of the following Wilson databases through November 15, 2005:

PriceMiner.com -

PriceMiner is the most up-to-date, innovative research tool for the art, antiques and collectibles market developed by GoAntiques.com. With more than 16 million records and 8 million pictures covering 5,200 categories and subcategories, it is used as both a price guide and an identification guide.

Records from eBay.com, GoAntiques.com and TIAS.com are aggregated to offer the most complete guide of its kind. eBay records date back to the first of this year, compared to the 15 days of records you can search on eBay's site. GoAntiques and TIAS records go back to 1998. PriceMiner currently adds about a million records every two months.

PriceMiner also presents historical price data for same or similar items that you search. Search/sort criteria include price range, category type, sale date, data source and currency (converted to US dollars).

PsycBOOKS, PsycEXTRA, and PsycCRITIQUES - The Nebraska Library Commission is pleased to announce free trial access to three new APA products:

WetFeet - Nebraska libraries enjoyed trial access to the two major components of the WetFeet Program during November:

Spring '06 Database Trials

ABC-CLIO Schools' Social Studies Websites - 2/28/2006-4/29/2006
Consumer Health Complete [EBSCO] - 3/15/2006-5/13/2006
PriceMiner - 2/24/2006-3/31/2006
Xreferplus - 5/1/2006-6/30/2006

ABC-CLIO Schools' Social Studies Websites

ABC-CLIO Schools' Social Studies Websites combine authoritative research sources, inquiry-based teaching and study tools, and integrated current events—all aligned to social studies standards and curriculum—in a way that will turn any library into a hub for developing critical thinking and information literacy skills among your students.

The ABC-CLIO Schools' series of interactive subscription websites challenge students to evaluate historical evidence, interpret current events, and make comparative analyses. The seven websites open with breaking news, feature stories, and engaging daily activities. Students can search by text, reference category, period, or region, depending on their abilities, learning styles, and assignments. They can also access subject-specific lessons and activities by time period, place, or concept.

Websites in this series include:

  • World Geography
  • World History: Ancient & Medieval
  • World History: The Modern Era
  • American History
  • American Government
  • State Geography
  • U.S. at War: Understanding Conflict

Consumer Health Complete [EBSCO]

Consumer Health Complete™ (CHC) is the single most comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc. Full text (PDF) information dates as far back as 1946.

Content includes:

  • More than 4,100 full text evidence-based, topically-oriented articles from Health Library on conditions and procedures
  • More than 4,900 full text Clinical Reference Systems reports (in English and Spanish)
  • More than 1,000 full text consumer health pamphlets and leaflets
  • More than 700 full text journals
  • Nearly 5,500 reports from Clinical Pharmacology
  • Thousands of medical images and diagrams
  • More than 1,200 physician-generated videos
  • Hundreds of consumer health encyclopedias and reference books
  • Spanish-language health information including nearly 5,000 full text health reports and a Health Newswire from United Press International

PriceMiner.com -

PriceMiner is the most up-to-date, innovative research tool for the art, antiques and collectibles market developed by GoAntiques.com. With more than 16 million records and 8 million pictures covering 5,200 categories and subcategories, it is used as both a price guide and an identification guide.

Records from eBay.com, GoAntiques.com and TIAS.com are aggregated to offer the most complete guide of its kind. eBay records date back to the first of this year, compared to the 15 days of records you can search on eBay's site. GoAntiques and TIAS records go back to 1998. PriceMiner currently adds about a million records every two months.

PriceMiner also presents historical price data for same or similar items that you search. Search/sort criteria include price range, category type, sale date, data source and currency (converted to US dollars).

Xreferplus

Xrefer delivers technology-enhanced online reference services to libraries and their users worldwide.  The company's customizable subscription service, xreferplus, features authoritative, aggregated content from over 150 reference books and 35 publishers, with 1.7 million entries covering such subjects as medicine, art technology and more.  xreferplus adds value with proprietary cross-reference technology ("xreferences") that integrates the content across topics, titles and publishers to provide contextual results.  xreferplus also features information visualization capabilities with the Research Mapper, a visual map that displays how search terms and topics in xreferplus are interconnected.  Subscribing libraries also enjoy unlimited simultaneous users, remote access, detailed usage reports and downloadable MARC records. 

Fall '06 Database Trials

Faulkner Information Services - 10/10/2006-11/7/2006
H.W. Wilson - 9/19/2006-10/31/2006
LearningExpress Advantage - 9/26/2006-10/31/2006
ProQuest Ancestry Library Edition & ProQuest Obituaries - 9/19/2006-11/17/2006
ScholarlyStats - 8/22/2006-10/11/2006

Faulkner Information Services

H.W. Wilson

The H.W. Wilson Company is offering Nebraska libraries trial access to the following databases through October 31, 2006.

  • Biography Reference Bank
  • Biography Index: Past & Present
  • Book Review Digest Plus
  • Book Review Digest Retrospective: 1905-1982
  • Current Issues: Reference Shelf Plus (Coming Soon)
  • Art Museum Image Gallery
  • Play Index
  • Essay & General Literature Index

LearningExpress Advantage

ProQuest

ScholarlyStats

ScholarlyStats provides information professionals with a single point of access to their vendor usage statistics in order to:

  • Save time administering usage statistics
  • Understand and analyze trends in user behaviour
  • Identify training issues
  • Base budgeting decisions upon real usage
  • Easily provide management with usage reports

For more information see: http://www.mpstechnologies.com/scholarlystats.htm

Spring '07 Database Trials

Faulkner Information Services - 03/01/2007-03/31/2007
LearningExpress Advantage - 04/05/2007-05/31/2007
LearningExpressLibrary - 03/06/2007-04/30/2007
netTrekker d.i. - 03/05/2007-03/31/2007
NewsBank - 04/10/2007-06/04/2007
NewsBank (K12) - 04/16/2007-06/04/2007
Taylor & Francis - 05/10/2007-06/15/2007
Teen Health & Wellness - 05/10/2007-06/30/2007

Faulkner Information Services

LearningExpress Advantage

LearningExpress Advantage is a comprehensive, web-based solution for administrators, teachers, and students that brings basic skill-building, test preparation, career guidance tools, student assessment, and reporting together in one platform. We work with districts and schools around the country to deliver highly effective programs that address a wide range of challenges

LearningExpressLibrary

LearningExpressLibrary.com is a comprehensive, interactive online learning platform of practice tests and tutorial course series designed to help patrons—students and adult learners—succeed on the academic or licensing tests they must pass. LearningExpressLibrary.com features:

  • Instant scoring
  • Customized feedback
  • Engaging self-paced courses
  • Unlimited remote access
  • Interactive test preparation
  • Targeted skills practice

Both a two-year-college LearningExpressLibrary platform and a four-year-college LearningExpressLibrary platform are available. Both can include access to LearningExpress's recently-enhanced Writing Improvement program, which is now called eFolio.

netTrekker d.i. [Differentiated Instruction]

 According to the vendor, here are just a few ways that netTrekker d.i., the latest version of netTrekker, the award-winning search engine for schools, supports educators as they differentiate their instruction to help every child achieve:

  • Access more than 180,000 educator-selected online resources organized by readability level and aligned with state standards.
  • Quickly and easily find resources for general-education students, ELL/ESL students, those working below or above grade level, those with reading challenges, special needs and more.
  • Exciting new features include:
    • Search for Resources by Readability Level
    • Customized ELL Content
    • Dictionary/Translation Hot Key
    • Safe, School-Friendly Image Search
    • Read Aloud
  • With netTrekker d.i., your educators and students spend less time searching for resources and more time teaching and learning!
     

NewsBank

NewsBank (K12)

Taylor & Francis

Routledge Social Science Databases

  • EUROPA WORLD YEARBOOK ONLINE/EUROPA WORLD PLUS
  • EUROPA WORLD OF LEARNING -
  • IISS ARMED CONFLICT DATABASE
  • INTERNATIONAL WHO'S WHO
  • ROUTLEDGE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PHILOSOPHY
  • Politics & International Relations and Religion Resources

CRCnetBASES

  • BIOSCIENCEnetBASE
  • CHEMnetBASE
    Including:
    • Combined Chemical Dictionary
      Including:
      • Dictionary of Commonly Cited Compounds
      • Dictionary of Drugs
      • Dictionary of Inorganic and Organometallic Compounds
      • Dictionary of Natural Products
      • Dictionary of Organic Compounds
    • Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
    • Polymers: A Property Database
    • Properties of Organic Compounds
  • ENGnetBASE
    Including:
    • CivilENGINEERINGnetBASE
    • ElecticalENGINEERINGnetBASE
    • MechanicalENGINEERINGnetBASE
    • TELECOMMUNICATIONSnetBASE
  • ENVIROnetBASE
  • FOODnetBASE
  • FORENSICnetBASE
  • INFOSECURITYnetBASE
  • ITKnowledgenetBASE
  • MATERIALSnetBASE
  • MATHnetBASE
  • NANOnetBASE
  • NEUROSCIENCEnetBASE
  • PHARMACEUTICALnetBASE
  • PlantSCIENCEnetBASE
  • POLYMERSnetBASE
  • PublicADMINISTRATIONnetBASE
  • STATSnetBASE

Teen Health & Wellness

Teen Health & Wellness: Real Life, Real Answers is designed to provide students with comprehensive curricular support and self-help tools on topics including diseases, drugs, alcohol, nutrition, fitness, mental health, diversity, family life, and more. Teen Health & Wellness is created for teens with their unique concerns and perspective in mind. The information throughout is presented using a sensitive, respectful, and age-appropriate approach. Teen-friendly articles make complex topics understandable. They also give insight into the teen experience-crucial for parents, teachers, librarians, health care providers, and others who are part of teens' lives and who support teens.

Spring 2008 Database Trials

Columbia University Press

EBSCO

Facts on File

H.W. Wilson

MyiLibrary eBook Platform

MyiLibrary, a division of Ingram Digital Group, is a world leader in the provision of eBooks and eContent via an online platform offered to academic, corporate, public, and government facilities.  By offering exclusive access to collections from Inter Governmental Organizations, as well as content from major STM publishers, MyiLibrary has created an indispensable reference tool for academics and professionals alike.

MyLibraryDV - is a downloadable broadband database that is provided by Recorded Books.  My Library DV allows patrons to choose from over 600 videos.  Patrons download videos to their computers and then can watch movies on both their computer or TV.

Taylor & Francis Routledge and Europa Resources

Value Line

Value Line is a source of accurate and independently created research information for investors.  Value Line collects data and analyzes performance of approximately 8,000 stocks, 13,000 mutual funds, 80,000 options and other securities.

Vault Online Career Library

Visual Thesaurus - There is nothing to download or install, simply access the web site.  VT will be available to all students and staff when purchased by a school or library and access is available from any Internet connection, at the library, school or at home.  It can be used with a white board or by an individual at their desk.  VT pronounces words, translates into 5 languages and searches across your other databases, making it a valuable reference tool.  It also includes lesson plans.

World Vital Records - According to its tag line this online service provides access to 1,062,488,681 names in 8,879 databases.  Its founders include several former Ancestry.com employees, and it is considered an Ancestry.com competitor.  Databases cover U.S. and international records. 

Fall 2008 Database Trials

EBSCOhost - 9/17/2008-10/31/2008
Elsevier - 10/1/2008-10/31/2008
H.W. Wilson Graphic Novels Core Collection - 12/1/2008-12/15/2008
LearningExpress Advangtage - 9/30/2008-10/31/2008

EBSCOhost

Elsevier

H.W. Wilson

LearningExpress

Spring 2009 Database Trials

EBSCO - 3/1/2009-4/30/2009
Facts on File - 3/15/2009-4/30/2009
Gale - 5/5/2009-5/31/2009
H.W. Wilson - 3/7/2009-5/15/2009
ProQuest - 3/5/2009-4/3/2009
Rand McNally - 3/17/2009-4/15/2009
ReferenceUSA - 5/12/2009-5/28/2009
Taylor & Francis - 4/9/2009-5/30/2009

EBSCO

K12 Databases

Public Library Databases

Academic Databases

Facts on File

Reference Databases

News Services Databases

Gale

Public Databases:

Academic Databases:

K12 School Databases

Special Libraries Databases

H.W. Wilson

ProQuest

Rand McNally Classroom - Rand McNally Classroom is designed to support classroom instruction in social studies, geography, and history. The site is teacher- and student-friendly, easy-to-use, and loaded with curriculum relevant maps, games and activities, and teaching materials for K-12 classrooms. Accessible at school or at home, it contains more than 1,800+ reference, special topic, and history maps from the world down to your very own community, which can be printed, viewed, and saved. The reference content has been developed exclusively by Rand McNally editors and cartographers to ensure accuracy, and the site is free from advertisements. 

ReferenceUSA

Taylor & Francis

Fall 2009 Database Trials

EBSCO - 9/8/2009 -11/6/2009; 11/2/2009-1/31/2010
Faulkner Information Services - 10/23/2009-11/23/2009
Marshall Cavendish Digital - 10/28/2009-12/26/2009
Morningstar Investment Research Center - 9/1/2009-9/30/2009
TELL ME MORE Interactive Language Learning - 9/21/2009-10/14/2009

EBSCO (9/8/2009-11/6/2009)

EBSCO (11/2/2009-1/31/2010)

Facts on File

Faulkner Information Services

Marshall Cavendish Digital "Marshall Cavendish Digital resources are adapted from our highly acclaimed print reference and non-fiction titles.  Recognized as a leader in support of student research, Marshall Cavendish has translated our print expertise into an easy to navigate, visually appealing web based electronic resource.  Currently, MC Digital offers 52 titles in the content areas of science, health, literature, economics, history and geography.  Librarians can select the individual resources that best meet student or patron needs, without being hindered by the required bundling of many publishers. Selected as a “Twenty Best Bets for Student Researchers” by Booklist in 2008, Marshall Cavendish Digital provides an affordable, authoritative and customizable alternative in the world of electronic resources."

Morningstar Investment Research Center is an all-inclusive investment research database designed specifically for libraries.  It features data and analysis on over 10,500 international and domestic stocks, 24,000 mutual funds, and more than 800 exchange traded funds.  Plus, the database boasts a comprehensive Help and Education Center, Portfolio X-Ray and robust screening tools.” 

TELL ME MORE Interactive Language Learning

Auralog is committed to providing the finest language learning solutions for libraries and their patrons. Designed to help language learners reach their personal or professional goals, TELL ME MORE® will assist patrons of all skill levels from casual learners through accomplished language enthusiasts reach their fluency goals. 

TELL ME MORE® Online addresses all the skills critical to language learning: reading, writing, listening, speaking, vocabulary, grammar, and culture. Regardless of whether a patron is a complete beginner or an advanced speaker, TELL ME MORE® Online will take your library patrons to the next level of language success.

TELL ME MORE® Online is available for patrons to learn Spanish, English (ESL: English as a Second Language), French, German, Italian and Dutch.

Providing the highest quality linguistic content to library patrons:

Fall 2010 Database Trials

LearningExpress Job & Career Accelerator - 1/11/10-2/15/10

LearningExpress Job & Career Accelerator integrates everything patrons need to conduct a successful job search, all in one easy-to-use online application. Interactive wizards guide patrons through each step of the process, from exploring suitable occupations and finding available jobs to preparing targeted resumes and improving critical job search skills. In addition, the personalized Job Search Portfolio allows job seekers to plan, tailor, and track multiple job searches at the same time while providing easy access to all their saved information. The end result is the most efficient and effective job search possible. Job & Career Accelerator features:

 

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