Electronic Resource Trials

The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports has been the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence for nearly 75 years. The original mission of the FBIS was to monitor, record, transcribe and translate intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. Many of these materials are first-hand reports of events as they occurred. As such, the FBIS Daily Reports constitutes a one-of-a-kind archive of transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news that provides fascinating insight into the second half of the 20th century.

Trial ends May 11, 2008

Gale Virtual Reference Library is a database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. These reference materials, usually only accessible in the library, are integrated into an easy-to-use database interface, and it is easily accessible either online from the library or remotely 24/7.  This resource provides access to more than 1,000 electronic reference titles - eBooks - in virtually any subject area including health, science, art, history, biography and many more.  It covers many topics of importance in academic, public, school, and some special libraries, including arts, literature, history, religion, science, social science, multicultural studies, and business. This database can be an invaluable source of multi-disciplinary material for students and researchers in the Humanities, Business and the Sciences.

Trial ends May 26, 2008

Literature Criticism Online is a fusion of ten of Gale’s top literary series including: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400–1800, Shakespearean Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children's Literature Review. This database is fully cross-searchable within each series or across the entire database, and it offers centuries of analysis—the scholarly and popular commentary from books, journals, magazines, broadsheets, pamphlets, diaries, and newspapers.

Trial ends May 26, 2008