Free Trial to 17th-19th Century British & American Newspapers

The Library is pleased to offer a free trial of Historical American
and British Newspapers from Gale until June 5, 2009. This trial
does not require a password to access articles.

This collection of fully searchable historical American and British newspapers includes digital facsimile images of both full pages and clipped articles for hundreds of British and U.S. newspapers.
For each issue, the newspaper is captured from cover-to-cover, providing access to every article, advertisement and illustration.

Your feedback is important to us! Please let us know your
comments and questions about this trial.
Contact Reference at reference@kzoo.edu or 337-7152.

Free Trial to America's Historical Newspapers

The Library is pleased to offer a free trial of America's Historical Newspapers from NewsBank until June 5, 2009. This trial does not require a password to access articles.

This growing collection of fully searchable historical American and Hispanic American newspapers is the most extensive resource of its kind. With nearly 2,000 titles from all 50 states, America’s Historical Newspapers provides an unparalleled record of the topics, people, issues and events that have shaped America for nearly three centuries.

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Free Trial to IOP Science

The Library is pleased to offer a free trial of IOP Science from the Institute of Physics until May 31st, 2009. This trial does not require a password to access articles.

This resource includes:

• Regular peer-reviewed content from IOP Publishing journals
• Over 300,000 journal articles
• articles from 1874 to the present day
  
• Latest and most popular article listings
• Links to related articles, references and citations
  
• News delivered from IOP community websites
• pre-prints from eprintweb.org alongside regular search results

Access IOP Science

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Free Trial to Cambridge Histories Online

The Library is pleased to announce a free trial of Cambridge Histories Online until August 21, 2008.

This database is an online version of the well-respected Cambridge History Reference works. "Cambridge Histories Online contains 250 volumes published since 1960, equating to around 196,000 pages of unrivaled scholarship. They are generally split down into two 'types': Histories devoted mainly to political and economic history for example The Cambridge History of China; and Histories devoted to subjects for example The Cambridge History of Renaissance Political Thought."

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Free Trial: Naxos Music Library

The Library is pleased to offer a free trial of Naxos Music Library. CLICK HERE for the Username and Password to Naxos Music Library (requires your K College username and password)

This database includes:

• Classical music plus six other genres, including Jazz, Blues, and World
• World's largest collection of streaming Classical music with over 250,000 tracks of music
• All new releases added monthly (more than 39 per month in 2006)
  
• Standard streaming speed is 64Kbps (broadband or ISDN/DSL required); 20Kbps service also available (suitable for a dial-up connection)
• Accessible from anywhere in the world; remote access included
• Powerful teaching tools to support educational use, including static URLs at all levels (track, repertoire, CD and playlist)
• Browse by composer to access composer’s biographies
• Click on Advanced Search to find a specific piece of music

Trial available until November 30, 2007

Free Trial to AnthroSource

The Library is pleased to announce a free trial of AnthroSource until May 2, 2007.

"Developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), AnthroSource brings 100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public, including:

• Current issues for 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications through the end of 2006, including American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
• An electronic archive of all AAA journals. View holdings information.
• Seamless access to archival content housed at JSTOR for key AAA publications including American Anthropologist (for AAA members and subscribing institutions)."

Your feedback is important to us! Please let us know your comments and questions about this trial Contact Reference at reference@kzoo.edu or 337-7152.

Free Trial to Literature Online

The Library is pleased to announce a free trial of Literature Online from ProQuest. As the premier online resource for English and American literature, Literature Online provides both scholars and students with texts, criticism and search tools which open up new possibilities for academic research, teaching and undergraduate learning.

The trial can be accessed here:

http://trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid=1976412
Username: kctrial

This trial is active until until March 3, 2007.

Your feedback is important! Let us know what you think (reference@kzoo.edu or x7152).

Free Trial to CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions

The Library is pleased to announce a free trial of CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions until March 1, 2007. This database includes:

• Historic Documents Series (1972 - 2005)
• Political Handbook of the World
• Politics in America
• Washington Information Directory
• Congress and Nation (1st - 11th Editions)
• Supreme Court Yearbook (1989 - 2006)
• Vital Statistics in American Politics
  

Your feedback is important to us! Please let us know your comments and questions about this trial Contact Reference at reference@kzoo.edu or 337-7152.

Free Trial to Historical Statistics of the United States

The Library has received a free trial to Historical Statistics of the United States (HSUS) until January 31, 2007. To access this trial on campus, go to:

http://hsus.cambridge.org

There is no off-campus access to this trial.

Below are browser requirements for use with Historical Statistics:
1) Historical Statistics is optimized to work on the latest version of IE (6+) on a PC, 5+, and for Safari on a Mac. Firefox and other major browsers can also be used.
2) Pop-ups and JavaScript should be enabled. Session cookies should be allowed.
3) Browser security settings should be on Medium or lower. Settings that disable scripting will cause a problem with the site's functionality.

We want to know what you think! If you have comments, questions, or problems, please contact a Reference Librarian at reference@kzoo.edu or 337-7152.

Free Trial: NewspaperDirect PressDisplay

The Library is pleased to announce a free trial of NewspaperDirect PressDisplay from ProQuest. NewspaperDirect PressDisplay provides online access to today's newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format. The collection currently includes over 400 titles and has a 60 day backfile. It includes publications in Czech, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

The trial can be accessed here:

http://trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid=1976412
Username: kctrial

This trial is active until until December 7.

Your feedback is important! Let us know what you think (reference@kzoo.edu or x7152).

Free Trial to PRISMA - Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas

The Library is pleased to offer a free trial of PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanisticas). PRISMA is "a comprehensive reference resource providing full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America and the Caribbean Basin. "

You can access PRISMA here:

http://www.kzoo.edu/reserves/trials/passwords.html

Use your Kalamazoo College username and password to access this page.

This trial will be active until 10/10/06. **EXTENDED to 10/20/06**

Your feedback is important to us! Please let us know if this resource was useful to you or not. Contact Reference at reference@kzoo.edu or 337-7152.

Free Trial to CIAO

The Library has received free trial access to the Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) database until May 20, 2006. CIAO is a full text database that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. To access this database (on campus only), go to http://www.ciaonet.org/.

Trial of the Reference Suite@Facts.com

A free trial is available until 2/17/06 to the Reference Suite @ Facts.com:

http://www.facts.com/followrs

The Reference Suite @ Facts.com (from Facts on File News Services) includes these complete library reference databases:

• The Facts On File World News Digest ( includes Reuters, Special Features, Digest,Archives)
• The World Almanac and Book of Facts (includes Encyclopedia)
• Issues and Controversies On File, and
  
• Today's Science On File

This trial is available on campus only. If you have questions or comments, please contact reference@kzoo.edu or 337-7152.

Free Trial: Reference Suite @ Facts.com

A free trial is available until 11/30/05 to the Reference Suite @ Facts.com:

http://www.facts.com/netrs

The Reference Suite @ Facts.com (from Facts on File News Services) includes these complete library reference databases:

• The Facts On File World News Digest ( includes Reuters, Special Features, Digest,Archives)
• The World Almanac and Book of Facts (includes Encyclopedia)
• Issues and Controversies On File, and
  
• Today's Science On File

This trial is available on campus only. If you have questions or comments, please contact reference@kzoo.edu or 337-7152.

Free Trial: CQ Electronic Library

A free trial is available until 10/20/05 to the CQ Weekly and CQ Historic Documents in the CQ Electronic Library:

http://library.cqpress.com

CQ Weekly reports on the world's most powerful legislative body completely and accurately every week. The CQ news team - by far the largest on Capitol Hill, with more than 100 reporters, editors and researchers - covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis unavailable anywhere else. CQ Weekly provides in-depth reports on issues looming on the congressional horizon, plus a complete wrap up the previous week's news, including the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes.

Historic Documents volumes give commentary on primary source documents relating to each year's key events. Now the entire collection of the acclaimed Historic Documents series (1972-2003) is available online.

Scopus Database Trial

The Library is pleased to announce a trial to Scopus. This database, a product of Elsevier publishers, offers access to 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers in the areas of Health, Life Sciences, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Social Science, Psychology, Economics, and Business and Management.

Scopus not only gives the abstract of an article, but it links to references within articles as well. Scopus is not a full text database, but you can check Ariadne or the Electronic Journal Finder to see if Kalamazoo College has access to print or electronic versions of the articles indexed in Scopus.

You can access Scopus in two ways:

• Directly: http://www.scopus.com/, or
• Through the Database Trials page on the Library website: http://www.kzoo.edu/is/library/indexes/trials.html

The Scopus trial is available until December 31, 2006.

Naxos Music Library Trial Available

A trial to Naxos Music Library will be available until June 30, 2004. This Website allows you to listen to the entire catalog of the Naxos label -- over 75,000 tracks of classical, jazz, folk, and world music -- in streaming audio files from the Web. Please see the Databases Trials page for the password to the Naxos Music Library trial.