Trial Access: Music Index-- EBSCOHost Platform
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Trial Period: October 26 - December 31, 2009
Description: Music Index covers a broad range of subjects, including musicological or organological topics, plus book reviews, record reviews, first performances, and obituaries. ECU currently has subscribed access to this database on Harmonie Park Press' platform. ECU's trial access is via the EBSCOHost platform. The trial is intended to compare the usefulness and functionality of the databases's two platforms in order to determine if ECU should migrate to EBSCOHost's platform.
Trial Access: Science Translational Medicine
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Trial Period: Available until December 23, 2009
Description: The mission of AAAS's Science Translational Medicine is to promote human health by providing a forum for communication and cross-fertilization among basic, translational, and clinical research practitioners and trainees from all relevant established and emerging disciplines.
Trial Access: Opposing Viewpoints
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Trial Period: May 1, 2009 – April 30, 2010
Description: Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center is a one-stop source for information on today's social issues. OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites.
Trial Access:Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
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Trial Period: July 1, 2009 – July 31, 2010
Description: Oxford Language Dictionaries Online (OLDO) features a variety of resources for language learners via its access to Oxford University Press’s unabridged bilingual dictionaries. In addition to providing access to the dictionaries themselves, OLDO provides native speaker audio pronunciation, and includes access to unique study materials offering extra assistance with learning and using an expanded range of languages. Updated every six months, the resource includes over four million words, phrases, and translations in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese.
Trial Access:Research Starters - Sociology
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Trial Period: June 19, 2009 – June 30, 2010
Description: True to its name, Research Starters - Sociology provides a starting point for research in sociology. It consists of summary articles of about 3,000 words in length written by researchers, scholars, and other experts in the field of sociology. Each article aims to enable researchers to develop a general understanding of a topic that will provide a starting point for more in-depth research. Each article in the database contains an abstract, keywords, overview, further insights/applications, viewpoints, bibliography, and suggested reading list.
