Category Archives: Trials

E-resource trials – current or expired.

Trial – Mental Measurements Yearbook

logoEhostWe have trial access to the Mental Measurements Yearbook until the 21st December.  The Mental Measurements Yearbook is a guide to over 3,000 contemporary testing instruments. Produced by the Buros Center for Testing at the University of Nebraska, entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing, population, scores) and edited review(s). To be included, a test must be commercially available and published in the English language. 1938 onwards.

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A list of all trials currently available to University of Edinburgh staff and students can be found on our trials webpage.

 

Trial access to PsycINFO and PsycARTICLEs via Ebsco platform

logoEhostWe have trial access to psycINFO and psycARTICLES via the Ebsco platform until the 21st December.  We currently have access to both of these databases via the Ovid platform, we are interested in gaining feedback on using these databases on the Ebsco platform.

PsycINFO – 1806 onwards. Abstracts, citations and controlled vocabulary for contents of approximately 2,500 journals publishing behavioural science and mental health.

PsycARTICLES – Full-text from APA journals (mostly volume 1 onwards) and related imprints. Indexed in PsycINFO.

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Trial access to Digital Theatre Plus

Digital_Theatre_Plus_logoWe have trial access to Digital Theatre Plus until the 20th December.  This resource offers 54 high-definition films of acclaimed British theatre productions, 100 interviews with UK’s leading actors and directors revealing how theatre professionals transform text into live performance, as well as study guides written by experts in drama providing in-depth analysis and interpretation of dramatic writing and language.

A list of the productions on Digital Theatre Plus  and a preview clip is also available.

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Trial access to Gunsho Ruiju

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We have trial access to Gunsho Ruiju until the 19th December.

Gunsho Ruiju is a collection of old Japanese books published from the ancient times to early Edo era. Subjects cover history, literature, religion, language, customs, art, music, cultivated arts, education, morality, legal codes, politics, economy, society and many other topics. Many textual sources are only available in this collection. This is an important primary resource for the study of classical Japanese culture.

The collection consists of three parts: Gunsho Ruiju, Zoku Gunsho Ruiju, and Zoku Zoku Gunsho Ruiju. The number of volumes for each part is as follows:

Gunsho Ruiju: 133 volumes, 1276 digitally compiled books and sources.
Zoku Gunsho Ruiju: 86 volumes, 2,128 digitally compiled books and sources.
Zoku Zoku Gunsho Ruiju: 17 volumes, 350 digitally compiled books and sources.

For further description, please see http://japanknowledge.com/en/contents/gunshoruiju/index.html

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Trial access to Italian Dictionaries and Works of Reference from Zanichelli Editore

logoWe have trial access until 22nd December to Italian Dictionaries & Works of Reference from Zanichelli Editore

The dictionaries on trial are:

  • Lo Zingarelli
  • Il Ragazzini
  • Biblioteca Italiana Zanichelli
  • I’Inglese Tecnico e Scientifico
  • Sinonimi e contrary
  • Dizionario Analogico della Lingua Italiana
  • L’Inglese dell Economia
  • Dizionario gastronomico compatto

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Trial access to Sinica Sinoweb

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We have trial access to Sinica Sinoweb until the 20th December.

Sinica Sinoweb provides full-text access to the archive of 14 core journals from Taiwan’s Academia Sinica, with the earliest dating back to as early as 1928:

  • Chinese Studies
  • Chinese-Literature-Philosophy-Institute Bulletin
  • History-Philology-Institute Bulletin
  • Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore
  • Legein Monthly
  • Legein Semi-Annual Journal
  • Modern-History-Institute Bulletin
  • Newsletter for Modern Chinese History
  • Oral History Journal
  • Research on Women in Modern Chinese History
  • Shih-Huo Monthly
  • Taiwan Historical Research
  • Taiwan Journal of Anthropology
  • Thought and Words

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Trial access to Chinese Electronic Periodicals Services (CEPS) and Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations Service (CETD)

logoWe have trial access to the Chinese Electronic Periodicals Services (CEPS) and Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations Service (CETD) until the 20th December.

The CEPS/CETD database platform provides full-text access to over 4,300 academic journals from China Mainland (2,600) , Taiwan (1,500) and other areas (254), with 2.6 million articles; it also provides full-text access to over 200,000 doctoral theses and masters dissertations from over 58 universities in Chinese speaking regions including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and China Mainland. The collection date is from 1991 onwards.. The database has been indexed both in traditional and simplified Chinese characters.

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Trial – OpenEdition Platform

openeditionWe have trial access to e-book and e-journal content on the OpenEdition platform until the 31st January.

OpenEdition is the umbrella portal for OpenEdition Books, Revues.org, Hypotheses and Calenda, four platforms dedicated to electronic resources in the humanities and social sciences.  We have trial access to 84 e-books and over 300 e-journals. The language of the website can be altered to French, Spanish & Italian.

A list of the e-books on trial is here.

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Trial – BrowZine

BrowZineLogo-FINAL COLORThe Library is running a trial of BrowZine until 19th December.  BrowZine is a new application that allows you to browse, read and follow thousands of the library’s scholarly journals from your Android and iOS mobile devices. All in a format optimized for your tablet and smartphone! Built to accompany your searching needs, items found in BrowZine can easily be synced up with Zotero, Mendeley, RefWorks, Dropbox or other services to help keep all of your information together in one place.

To learn more, please take a look at this short “BrowZine on Campus” video: http://vimeo.com/75971786?autoplay=1

With BrowZine, you can:
– Browse and read journals: Browse journals by subject, easily review tables of contents, and download full articles
– Create your own bookshelf: Add journals to your personal bookshelf and be notified when new articles are published
– Save and export articles: Save articles for off-line reading or export to services such as DropBox, Mendeley, RefWorks, Zotero, Papers and more

To learn more and start using BrowZine today, visit http://thirdiron.com/download/.

Getting started is easy! From your Android or iOS device, find BrowZine in the Apple App, Google Play or Amazon App store and download it for free. When initially launching BrowZine, select University of Edinburgh from the drop down list. Enter your EASE login.  Start exploring BrowZine!

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Trial – ARAS: The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism

logoWe have trial access to ARAS: The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism until the 31st December.

The ARAS archive contains about 17,000 photographic images, each cross-indexed, and accompanied by scholarly commentary. The commentary includes a description of the image with a cultural history that serves to place it in its unique historical and geographical setting. Often it also includes an archetypal commentary that brings the image into focus for its modern psychological and symbolic meaning, as well as a bibliography for related reading and a glossary of technical terms. This online resource will be of interest to students and staff of Edinburgh College of Art, and the Schools of History, Classics and Archaeology, and Literature, Languages and Culture.

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