Newly Activated Database Trials

The Furman Libraries are offering a selection of database trials throughout Spring Semester. To discover and access trial databases, visit Electronic Resources Trials.

Trials include:

Illustrated London News Historical Archive 1842-2003 (Gale – Cengage Learning) will be available through Friday, March 10, 2016. The Illustrated London News was the world’s first fully illustrated weekly newspaper. This archive allows researchers to access the entire run of this publication in a fully searchable digital format. High-quality color facsimile images bring to life more than 150 years of social, political and cultural history. Areas covered include politics, social history, fashion, theatre, media, literature, advertising and graphic design, as well as genealogy.

American Broadsides and Ephemera (Readex) will be available through Friday, March 11, 2016. Built in partnership with the American Antiquarian Society, this full-color digital edition offers fully searchable facsimiles of 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1749 and 1900. Featuring documents produced locally across the country, these rare items vividly capture the daily lives of earlier Americans.

Communication Source (EBSCO) will be available through Wednesday, April 6, 2016. Please note that if we got this resource we would cancel Communication and Mass Media Complete. Everything in CMMC is included in Communication Source along with 224 additional full-text titles. This resource offers information for scholars studying mass media, communications theory, linguistics, organizational communication, phonetics and speech pathology. It offers abstracts and indexing as well as full-text content from global titles pertaining to many fields of communication studies.

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