Trial Databases
New databases available for a brief trial period.
Let us know which ones you think are worth keeping.
- Natural Standard
(Natural Standard Research Collaboration)
 
- Systematically gathers scientific data and expert opinions
to provide peer-reviewed, evidence-based information about
complementary and alternative therapies for clinicians, patients, and
healthcare institutions. Effectiveness of treatments
is graded from A to F. Information is organized into the categories:
foods, herbs, supplements, vitamins, and minerals
- general health and wellness (therapies, diet, fitness, beauty) -
comparative effectiveness of treatments - specific
medical conditions - products by brand name - interactive tools
(calculators, dictionary, nutrition database, etc.).
- Trial ends May 25, 2008
- CQ Press Electronic Library
(Congressional Quarterly)
- Provides the full text of CQ Researcher that presents background, overview,
timeline, outlook, opinion surveys, and arguments both for and against controversial topics dating
back to 1923, along with CQ Weekly that covers Congress' activities each week, including
legislative debates, hearings, and votes dating back to 1983. Also provides the full text of
Congressional Quarterly's political science reference books including CQ Almanac,
Congress and the Nation, Guide to Congress, Guide to Political Campaigns in
America, Guide to the Presidency, Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court, Guide to
U.S. Elections, and more, as well as the encyclopedias, Elections A to Z, The Presidency
A to Z, The Supreme Court A to Z, The U.S. Constitution A to Z, Vital Statistics on
American Politics, and more.
- Trial ends May 16, 2008
- Play
Index (WilsonWeb)
- Indexes over 30,000 plays written from antiquity to the present and
that were published singly or in collections from 1949 to the present. Includes mysteries,
pageants, plays in verse, puppet performances, radio & television plays,
classic drama, and more. Plays can be searched by title, author, subject, style,
genre, and cast analysis. Includes links to selected websites.
- Trial ends May 31, 2008
- Nursing
Reference Center (Ebsco)
- Provides access to thousands of full text documents that cover recent
clinical evidence and knowledge on diseases, conditions, drug information, patient education,
practice resources, labs, diagnostics,
and reference information from top publishers. Includes quick lessons -
3,600 evidence-based care sheets - 3,200 patient information handouts - guidelines - continuing
education modules - HealthDay News with FDA updates and daily clinical and drug
updates - research instruments - legal cases - and the full text of Davis's Drug Guide for Nurses,
AHFS Drug Information Essentials, and Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary.
- Trial ends May 2008
- Aluka
(Ithaka)
- A digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa that serves
the scholarly community by tapping into the unprecedented capacity of the web to
connect those who hold African collections with those who want to use them.
Includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by Aluka's partners,
ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference
works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs,
and slides. Three content areas that are initially being developed are African plants,
struggles for freedom in southern Africa, and African cultural heritage sites &
landscapes.
- Trial ends May 2008
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
HTML by Robert Delaney
robert.delaney@liu.edu
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