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Product Description:
The African American Historical Serials Collection was
developed in conjunction with the American Theological
Library Association (ATLA) as an effort to preserve
endangered serials related to African American religious
life and culture.
The culmination of more than 10 years of organizing and
collecting materials, the African American Historical
Serials Collection is a centralized and accessible resource of
formerly fragmentary, widely-dispersed and endangered
materials originating from various institutions and
sources—including some that had not previously
participated in preservation projects.
Now compiled and accessible to researchers in one digital
collection, this unique resource documents the history of
African American life and religious organizations in the
19th-century United States.This Collection Features:
Over 170 unique titles spanning from 1829 through 1922
Approximately 60,000 pages of searchable
primary source content
Sources including periodicals, newspapers
and magazines
Reports and annuals from various African American
organizations, including churches and educational
and service institutionsDates of Trial: April 11, 2012 through June 10, 2012
Vendor/Publisher: Ebsco
Contact person: William Fontaine, Reference Bibliographer - Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, Hebrew, & Arabic
Special Access instructions: This resource is controlled by IP address; this means you must use a computer on the Dartmouth or DHMC networks. Instructions for off-campus access are available at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/home/help/off-campus.html
Access African American Historical Serials Collection at http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=h7i
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Books24x7® supports workers in acquiring knowledge at the speed of change by instantly delivering trusted information how and when it's needed. Our content collections represent industry's best intelligence, covering business, technology, engineering, finance and a multitude of other subject areas.
Our on-demand platform streamlines information gathering by utilizing a powerful, patented search engine. Combined with a variety of implementation options for easy accessibility, Books24x7 can be embedded into the work life of organizations, enhancing productivity and professional development, minimizing downtime and maximizing performance.
*Access is via username and password and users must register in able to gain access. Register with your e-mail address and WAIT for a response from lmutty@books24x7.com. Follow registration instructions from that e-mail.
Dates of Trial: April 26, 2012 through June 24, 2012
Vendor/Publisher: SkillSoft
Contact person: Barbara DeFelice, Director Digital Resources Program
Special Access instructions:
Access is via username and password and users must register in able to gain access. Register with your e-mail address and WAIT for a response from lmutty@books24x7.com. Follow registration instructions from that e-mail.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online is a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century.
Designed specifically with the researcher in mind, Nineteenth Century Collections Online is being built on a groundbreaking research platform that offers the robust search functionality and annotation and tagging tools necessary for scholarly work.
Archives now available: British Politics and Society, European Literature 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection
Asia and the West Archives will become live in two weeks, and British Theater and the Arts won’t be live until the beginning of June. PLEASE NOTE:*** to anyone trialing the two archives on the trial site – they are NOT complete yet. 200,000 pages a week are being loaded into the NCCO platform, and its split between all the archives.
Dates of Trial: April 27, 2012 through June 30, 2012
Vendor/Publisher: Gale
Contact person: Barbara DeFelice, Director Digital Resources Program
Special Access instructions: This resource is controlled by IP address; this means you must use a computer on the Dartmouth or DHMC networks. Instructions for off-campus access are available at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/home/help/off-campus.html
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Product Description:
The database also includes the Native Playwrights' Newsletter, a unique resource, containing a wealth of original essays, articles, photographs, interviews, reviews, and production information related to the plays.
The plays themselves have been selected using leading bibliographies and with the editorial advice of scholars and the playwrights themselves.
North American Indian Drama uses PhiloLogic software, developed at the University of Chicago, to enable in-depth browsing and searching of both the bibliographic and the full-text elements within the database.Dates of Trial: April 4, 2012 through June 3, 2012
Vendor/Publisher: Alexander Street Press
Contact person: Amy L. Witzel, Reference Bibliographer - Anthropology, Sociology, Education, Native American Studies, African & African American Studies, and Women's & Gender Studies
Special Access instructions: This resource is controlled by IP address; this means you must use a computer on the Dartmouth or DHMC networks. Instructions for off-campus access are available at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/home/help/off-campus.html
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Product Description:
This fifth release of North American Indian Thought and Culture contains over 119,000 pages of text and images. Included are biographies, auto-biographies, personal narratives, speeches, diaries, letters, and oral histories. The database represents the largest compilation ever created of biographical information on indigenous peoples from all areas of North America.
Particular care has been taken to index this material so that it can be searched more thoroughly than ever before. Full-length reference works also are included to give background and context to the narratives.
Dates of Trial: April 4, 2012 through June 3, 2012
Vendor/Publisher: Alexander Street Press
Contact person: Amy L. Witzel, Reference Bibliographer - Anthropology, Sociology, Education, Native American Studies, African & African American Studies, and Women's & Gender Studies
Special Access instructions: This resource is controlled by IP address; this means you must use a computer on the Dartmouth or DHMC networks. Instructions for off-campus access are available at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/home/help/off-campus.html
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With publication started in June 1946 and a current circulation of 3 million, People's Daily is the most influential and authoritative newspaper in China. It is the official voice of the central government of the People's Republic of China For the last 66 years, the People's Daily has published daily issues that provide the single location where the central government and the Communist Party of China announce their respective policies and disseminate governmental, political, and economic messages to the public and the world. Most importantly, since its inception the newspaper has been the true barometer of the political climate of Chinese society on a daily basis.
Database Features:
- 65 years of past daily issues covering from 1946 to present;
- Fully Internet Version -- no need to install, manage a server;
- Fully searchable -- either in single or combined search;
- Fully downloadable and printable;
- Interchangeable between text files and JPG image files;
- DAILY updated
Dates of Trial: April 17, 2012 through May 17, 2012
Vendor/Publisher: OriProbe
Contact person: Nien Lin Xie, Librarian for East Asian Studies
Special Access instructions: This resource is controlled by IP address; this means you must use a computer on the Dartmouth or DHMC networks. Instructions for off-campus access are available at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/home/help/off-campus.html
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A collection of eight Historical Black Newspapers. You can access each one at its own url or you can access Dartmouth's collection of Proquest trials at https://www.proquest.com/trials/trialSummary.action?view=subject&trialBean.token=INLM5E5XPMHCGBPOO0T9.
1) Atlanta Daily World (1931-2003
http://search.proquest.com/hnpatlantadailyworld/advanced?accountid=10422
2) Cleveland Call and Post (1934-1991)
http://search.proquest.com/hnpclevelandcallpost/advanced?accountid=10422
3) Los angeles Sentinel (1934-2005)
http://search.proquest.com/hnplasentinel/advanced?accountid=10422
4) New York Amsterdam News (1922-1993)
http://search.proquest.com/hnpnewamsterdamnews/advanced?accountid=10422
5) Norfolk Journal and Guide (1921-2003)
http://search.proquest.com/hnpnorfolkjournalguide/advanced?accountid=10422
6)Philadelphia Tribune (1912-2001)
http://search.proquest.com/hnpnorfolkjournalguide/advanced?accountid=10422
7) Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)http://search.proquest.com/hnppittsburghcourier/advanced?accountid=10422
8) The Baltimore Afro-American (1893-1988)
http://search.proquest.com/hnpbaltimoreafricanamerican/advanced?accountid=10422
Dates of Trial: April 17, 2012 through May 17, 2012
Vendor/Publisher: Proquest
Contact person: Francis X. Oscadal, Reference Bibliographer - History, General Social Sciences
Special Access instructions: This resource is controlled by IP address; this means you must use a computer on the Dartmouth or DHMC networks. Instructions for off-campus access are available at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/home/help/off-campus.html
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The New York Tribune (1841-1922) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.
Dates of Trial: April 19, 2012 through May 17, 2012
Vendor/Publisher: Proquest
Contact person: Francis X. Oscadal, Reference Bibliographer - History, General Social Sciences
Special Access instructions: This resource is controlled by IP address; this means you must use a computer on the Dartmouth or DHMC networks. Instructions for off-campus access are available at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/home/help/off-campus.html
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The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. More than 400,000 pages are included, constituting a treasure trove of the work from the greatest designers, photographers, stylists and illustrators of the 20th and 21st centuries. Vogue is a unique record of American and international popular culture that extends beyond fashion. The Vogue Archive is an essential primary source for the study of fashion, gender and modern social history – past, present and future.
The database will allow fashion design and photography students to find inspirational images, but will also cater for academic study. Fashion marketing students will be able to research the history of a brand identity by viewing every advertisement for a brand such as Revlon, Coty, Versace or Chanel between specified dates. Researchers in cultural studies and gender studies will be able to explore themes such as body image, gender roles and social tastes from the 1890s to the present.
Dates of Trial: April 4, 2012 through June 2, 2012
Vendor/Publisher: Proquest
Contact person: Lucinda M. Hall, Reference Bibliographer - Geography & Maps
Special Access instructions: This resource is controlled by IP address; this means you must use a computer on the Dartmouth or DHMC networks. Instructions for off-campus access are available at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/home/help/off-campus.html
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