Category: Trials

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Nineteenth Century Historical Documents – Trial for NCCO (til November 20)

 

TRIAL OVER.  Acquired collections:

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NCCO – Ninteenth Century Collections Online is a result of a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century, with archives releasing incrementally beginning in spring 2012.

The content is sourced from the world’s preeminent libraries and archives. It consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages.

  • British Politics and Society
  • Asia: and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
  • British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture
  • Children’s Literature and Childhood
  • Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
  • European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection
  • Photography: The World through the Lens
  • Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform
  • Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925
  • Women: Transnational Networks

Feedback as comment or by e-mail: e-library@helsinki.fi

 

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On trial STATISTA until 30.11.

Statista is extremely large statistics portal. Providing you with access to relevant data from over 18,000 sources, the focus is firmly based on professional, clear, quick and consistent results. Customers have access to quantitative data from more than 600 industries like agriculture, chemicals and resources, health and pharmaceuticals, technology and telecommunications, consumer goods and media and advertising. Included in all account types: unlimited download, source citation and direct use in PowerPoint and Excel.

Feedback e-library@helsinki.fi

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Proquest Hospital Collection on Trial (til November 8)

Proquest Hospital Collection provides access to the latest health care information that is always essential in hospitals, whether it’s for medical professionals, hospital administrators, or even for patients and their families. PHC consists of the following Proquest databases:

  • Proguest Family Health
  • Proquest Health & Medical Complete
  • Proquest Health Management
  • Proquest Nursing & Allied Health Source
  • Proquest Psychology Journals
  • Proquest Psychology Journals

There are thousands of e-journals available through these databases

Feedback as comment or by e-mail: e-library@helsinki.fi

 

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On trial IMF -database

On trial IMF -database until 2.11.2014.

IMF -database includes amongst other things research reports and publications, IMF eLibrary data and statistics. You can get predefined data reports by country, topic or data source.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 188 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.

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There is no lack of eBooks this autumn!

The staff and students of the University of Helsinki have now access to about 140 000 “extra” eBooks owing to the trials for a few large eBook packages.

The trial for EBSCOhost eBook Collection provides over 130 000 eBooks (til October 31) . There are books in the fields of all campus but the focus is in the fields of the city centre campus.

The Trial for CRCnetBASE   (til October 15) provides over 13 000 eBooks from Taylor & Francis Group. The books available are mostly in the fields of science, technology and medicine but there are a few titles in the fields of social sciences and law, too.

Browse books! Make finds! Give feedback: e-library[at]helsinki.fi !

Pic: The guardian

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eBooks for Classisists – Loeb Classical Library – Trial (-18.11)

TRIAL IS  OVER – The resource acqured!

Loeb Classical Library is a series of books, today published by Harvard University Press, which presents important works of ancient Greek and Latin literature in a way designed to make the text accessible to the broadest possible audience, by presenting the original Greek or Latin text on each left-hand page, and a fairly literal translation on the facing page.

Feedback: e-library[at]helsinki.fi

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On Trial Euromonitor International Passport (~30.9)

Euromonitor International Passport is a market research database which features millions of statistics and in-depth reports on 27 industries with demographic, macro and socioeconomic data and analysis on consumers and economies in 210 countries worldwide. Passport supports teaching and research across a range of disciplines: international business & marketing, economics, social studies, humanities, geography, food marketing and international relations.

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