It’s that time of year again. Sweaters? Cooler weather? Pumpkin-flavored everything? Yes, but it’s also time for our fall database trials. This time around, we have a diverse collection of resources ready for you to test drive. The trial database page is located here, with links to each individual resource. Our trials run through the month of October. Your feedback helps us to make the best decisions on what we purchase for your teaching and learning success, so please fill out the feedback form located below the trial links. Happy test driving!
• Roper Center: The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research is one of the world’s leading archives of social science data, specializing in data from public opinion surveys.
• Statista: Statista presents information with over one million statistics, 15,000 third party studies, 1,500 dossiers and industry reports, 40,000 forecasts, and numerous infographics.
• Bridgeman Education Images: Offers over 800,000 digital images of art, history and culture from global museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use.
• Library and Consortia Research Collection: This suite of collections gives access to six databases: American Library Directory, Fulltext Sources Online, Literary Market Place, International Literary Market Place, Faulkner Security Management Practices, and Faulkner Advisory for Information Technology Studies (FAITS) online reports which help IT and business students prepare for class discussion, internships as well as providing an excellent resource to prepare for job interviews.
• African American Communities: This collection presents multiple aspects of the African American community through personal diaries and scrapbooks, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals, correspondence, official records and in-depth oral histories, revealing the prevalent challenges of racism, discrimination and integration, and a unique African American culture and identity.