Day: April 18, 2011

Filmakers Library Online from Alexander Street Press provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum — race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. This release provices 913 titles, streamed to the user’s desktop. The trial expires on May 30, 2011.

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The Parker Library on the Web is a joint project of the Library of Corpus Christi College (Cambridge University) and the Stanford University Libraries. It contains over 550 complete manuscripts from Corpus Christi’s Parker Library of manuscripts and is particularly strong in Old English texts. It includes works in theology, music, medieval travelogues and maps, apocalypses, bestiaries, royal ceremonies, historical chronicles and Bibles as well as a collection of English illuminated manuscripts. It is of interest to scholars working in many fields including historians of art, music, science, literature, politics and religion. The trial begins April 18 and ends on May 29.

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The Trew Letter Collection database contains over 19,000 autograph letters collected by Christoph Jacob Trew, a physician and botanist who corresponded widely with prominent European scientific figures through the middle third of the 18th century. There are German and English search interfaces. The trial begins April 18 and ends on May 29.

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