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Trial access to Marquis Biographies Online until Oct. 31

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The UAHuntsville Salmon Library has trial access to the Marquis Biographies Online database now until October 31.  Simply go to http://search.marquiswhoswho.com/ and contact the Reference Desk at 256-824-6529 for login information. 

Marquis Biographies Online is a comprehensive, searchable database of over 1.4 million biographies, updated daily.  It provides up-to-the-minute biographies of leaders and achievers from around the world in the areas of business, law, science, medicine, the arts, government, entertainment and more – in one convenient source!  You can find biographies that have appeared in 24 Marquis Who’s Who print titles since 1985, plus historical biographies from the Who Was Who in America volumes from 1607–1985.

Please direct all questions and comments about this trial to http://libanswers.uah.edu/.

ARTstor Digital Library trial access until Nov. 2

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The UAHuntsville Salmon Library has trial access to the ARTstor Digital Library now until November 2.  Simply go to http://www.artstor.org/ and click on “ARTstor Digital Library-Enter Here” or go to the search page at http://library.artstor.org/.  Some content will require a login.  Please contact the Reference Desk at 256-824-6529 for login information. 

The ARTstor Digital Library is a nonprofit resource that provides more than one million digital images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences with accessible suite of software tools for teaching and research. Their community-built collections comprise contributions from outstanding international museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists’ estates.  Subject guides to the collection are available here. 

Please direct all questions and comments about this trial to http://libanswers.uah.edu/.

Credo Reference database trial until Sept. 30

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For trial access to Credo Reference, please go to www.credoreference.com. Username and password information is available at the UAHuntsville Salmon Library Reference Desk. Stop by, call us at 256-824-6529, or send us a message at http://libanswers.uah.edu.

If you are not familiar with Credo Reference, they are the world’s largest online reference service featuring:
–555 full-text reference titles (and growing) with over 3 million entries from over 80 highly-respected publishers integrated in a robust search engine.
–Many new unique interactive features such as dynamic table functionality for world state, and county statistics, an interactive world atlas, flash animations, videos, poetry/literature readings, over 700 music files, and a critically-acclaimed concept map.
–More than 200,000 images from all subject areas, over 200,000 audio pronunciations, and a citation formatter in APA, MLA, and Chicago formats for all articles.
–New Topic Pages – Bringing library resources together (Books, eBooks, Journals, Periodicals, News, and Media) on thousands of topics.

To see a full list of titles currently available, please click on the following link: http://corp.credoreference.com/titles
Some recently added titles include:
Collins Greek-English Dictionary,
Collins English-Greek Dictionary,
Eastern Europe: An Introduction to the People, Lands, and Culture,ABC-CLIO
Globalization: Encyclopedia of Trade, Labor, and Politics, ABC-CLIO
The Hutchinson Chronology of World History, Helicon

To see a short video tour of Credo Reference, click the following link http://corp.credoreference.com/VideoTour

Please send your feedback to http://libanswers.uah.edu!

DataSets database trial until Aug. 29

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Statistical Datasets

From now until Aug. 29, the UAHuntsville Salmon Library (and other NAAL members) will have trial access to the ProQuest database DataSets, described by ProQuest as “The World’s Largest Collection of Organized Statistical Data.” Please contact the Reference Desk for login information at 256-824-6529 or http://libanswers.uah.edu.

ProQuest Statistical DataSets is a Web-based research solutions tool that provides fast and easy access to 15 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets within an easy-to-use interface. With this dynamic new product, you can scan the contents of over 580 datasets, select subjects and variables of interest, and view your data in side-by-side tables and charts.

DataSets addresses an emerging emphasis on quantitative literacy, fostering critical skills in the use, manipulation, and interpretation of numeric data. Results are customizable and instantaneous, with indicators arranged in folders by topic and source. Users can tap “live” statistics that are much more current than what is published, plus local data, time series typically extending back an average span of 34 years, and necessary bibliographic/citation information.

PREMIUM MODULES:
Easy Analytic Software Inc. (EASI), a leading statistical modeling firm that specializes in consumer demographics, is now available as a premium subscription module within LexisNexis Statistical DataSets which provides data on consumer demographics and usage/spending patterns for products and services within all States, counties, census tracts, and block groups in the US. The data can be mapped, graphed, and analyzed using all the interactive tools available in Statistical DataSets. Data sources include Mediamark’s annual Survey of the American Consumer, BLS’s Consumer Expenditure Survey, Census 2000, the American Community Survey, and the Census of Retail Trade.

Sub-national data—by Chinese Province, county, and municipality—is available as a premium subscription to Statistical DataSets.

IMF – Balance of Payments – By country, a statistical database compiled by IMF, from 1948 to the present. Calculated quarterly,
the Balance of Payments shows how much money is going into and out of a country.

IMF – Direction of Trade – By country, a statistical database compiled by IMF, from 1980 to the present. Compiled monthly, the database shows the value of a country’s imports and exports, by country of destination and origin.

IMF – Government Financial Statistics – By country, a statistical database compiled by IMF, from 1990 to the present. Compiled annually, the database shows government revenues, expenses, assets, and liabilities of member countries.

IMF – International Financial Statistics – By country, a statistical database compiled by IMF, from 1948 to the present. Compiled monthly, the database shows international transactions, exchange rates, and selected economic indicators for member countries.

For additional information visit the WiKi: http://wiki.lexisnexis.com/statistical/index.php?title=Statistical_DataSets

For videos on how DataSets works, please click here.

History Vault database trial until Aug. 29

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From now until Aug. 29, the UAHuntsville Salmon Library (and other NAAL members) will have trial access to the ProQuest database History Vault. Please contact the Reference Desk for login information at 256-824-6529 or http://libanswers.uah.edu.

ProQuest is introducing more than 23 million pages of primary source material from its University Publications of America (UPA) Collection in a digital format. ProQuest History Vault unlocks the wealth of archival materials with a single search. Researchers will be able to access letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and much more from a single interface.

Modules currently available include:
The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records (691,000 pages; 37 collections)

The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1 (617,000 pages; 36 collections)

Search results are bibliographic metadata records with embedded links to a searchable PDF of the document. Browse options include event timelines and detailed descriptions of archival collections from which the materials are drawn. Jump right to the most significant folders in the collection, or run a search on a person, event, or controlled vocabulary subject term that catches your eye.

For more information, please view the ProQuest History Vault brochure here.

New eBook collections from Springer

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A big thank you to the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL) for our new access to selected 2011 eBooks from Springer. Ebooks are available in the following collections:

Behavioral Science – http://www.springerlink.com/behavioral-science/?Content+Type=Books&Copyright=2011&sort=p_OnlineDate&sortorder=desc

Biomedical & Life Sciences – http://www.springerlink.com/biomedical-and-life-sciences/?Content+Type=Books&Copyright=2011&sort=p_OnlineDate&sortorder=desc

Business & Economics – http://www.springerlink.com/business-and-economics/?Content+Type=Books&Copyright=2011&sort=p_OnlineDate&sortorder=desc

Looking for a specific title? You can also search our Journal Finder for the title.

Please contact the Reference Desk at 256-824-6529 or http://libanswers.uah.edu if you have any problems accessing the content or if you have any questions.