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Databases on Trial

The following databases are currently available for a limited time as we consider adding them to the many already licensed by the Purchase College Library. We invite your input as we make our decisions about licensing new resources. 

Please note the end date for each trial, and contact
Susanne Markgren with your feedback. 

   
Current Trials
ebrary

Digital library with more than 47,000 multidisciplinary titles.

[Trial ends August 15, 2010.]

 
Naxos Video Library

A performing arts video library with over 300 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, among others and is continuously updated to offer the best selection of performing arts videos. Streamed via Adobe Flash. To download the latest version of Flash, visit: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

[Trial ends July 5, 2010.]

 
Newsbank Access World News

The most comprehensive collection of full-text newspapers globally, Access World News provides extensive coverage at any level—local, state, regional, national and international. Features the vast majority of U.S. newspapers by circulation, along with almost one thousand hard-to-find local and regional titles, the majority of which are unavailable elsewhere. Additionally, Access World News offers searchable news video clips and over a thousand international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.

[Trial ends June 21, 2010.]

   
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