Category Archives: Trials

E-resource trials – current or expired.

Trial – Stalin Digital Archive

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We have trial access to Stalin Digital Archive until November 30th.

The Stalin Digital Archive contains a selection of documents which covers Stalin’s personal biography, his work in government, and his conduct of foreign affairs.

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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Trial – English Historical Documents

We have trial access to English Historical Documents until 1st December.   Screenshot 2014-10-31 18.08.36

English Historical Documents Online contains over 5,500 expertly indexed and fully searchable primary documents from 500-1914.​

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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 – Classic Arabic Texts Online

We have trial access to Classic Arabic Texts Online until 27th November.  Screenshot 2014-10-31 18.59.38

Classic Arabic Texts Online (CATO) offers approx. 19,000 pages of classic Brill editions of Arabic texts in a full-text searchable format. The first part of CATO includes the following titles:

1) Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum (with indices and glossaries!) edited by M.J. de Goeje and J.H. Kramers;

2) De Goeje’s edition of al-Ṭabarī’s Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa l-mulūk;

3) De Goeje’s edition of al-Balādhūrī’s Kitāb Futūḥ al-buldān; 4) Origins of the Islamic State by Murgotten and Hitti, the English translation of al-Balādhūrī’s Kitāb Futūḥ al-buldān.

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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 – RIPM

logoEhostWe have trial access to RIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals) on the EbscoHost platform until the 11th November.

RIPM offers a unique, searchable collection of complete full-text music journals not found in any library or any other online resource, spanning a period of some two hundred years, from C.P.E. Bach to Berg and Bartok, and from Schubert to Schoenberg and Stravinsky.

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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 – LLMC Digital

logoWe have trial access to LLMC Digital until the 30th November.  Access this e-resource on campus or off campus via the VPN.

LLMC-Digital is an archive of historical legal and government documents, managed by a not-for-profit consortium of libraries in the US, but including a great deal of UK, European and global content. It currently includes over 85,000 volumes.

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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 – Oxford Scholarly Editions – Early Seventeenth-Century Prose

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We have trial access to Oxford Scholarly Editions – Early Seventeenth-Century Prose until the 6th November.  Access on campus or off campus via the VPN.

Oxford Scholarly Editions provides access to important writings from across the humanities, in editions which are the foundation of humanities scholarship—the primary sources upon which scholars rely for research and teaching. This trial access to the Early Seventeenth-Century Prose module includes the Minutes and Papers of the Westminster Assembly, the Royal Proclamations of King James I 1603–1625, the diaries of Samuel Pepys and John Evelynand the prose works of Thomas Hobbes, John Donne and Francis Bacon.

These links will show only the content we have access to:

Browse works – http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/search?onlySubscription=true

Browse editions – http://www.oxfordscholarlyeditions.com/search?onlySubscription=true&view=edition

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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 – Vetus Latina database

i_vldlogo_mediumWe have trial access to Vetus Latina database on the Brepolis platform until the 7th November. You will need to click “Enter database” to accept the terms and conditions of use before access is given to the database.  Access is available on and off campus.

The Vetus Latina Database is an electronic index to all Greek and Latin patristic citations or allusions to the pre-Vulgate editions of the Bible, collected by the Vetus Latina Institut in Beuron, Germany.

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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 – Women and Social Movements, International Archive

WASIbuttonWe have trial access to Women and Social Movements, International Archive until the 8th November.  Access this database on campus or off campus via the VPN.

Women and Social Movements, International is a landmark collection of primary materials. Through the writings of women activists, their personal letters and diaries, and the proceedings of conferences at which pivotal decisions were made, this collection lets you see how women’s social movements shaped much of the events and attitudes that have defined modern life.

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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 – Credo Reference

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We have trial access to Credo Reference until 31st October.  Access is via a specific username and password listed on our EASE protected password page.

Credo Online Reference Service helps researchers build context by providing background information and key terms enabling more efficient research. It gives access to hundreds of in-depth subject encyclopedias and handbooks covering every major subject from Accounting to Art History and Shakespeare to Einstein, as well as Topic Pages which offer an easy starting point and pathways for further research. Some people might find the Credo Mind Map a good way of seeing the relationships between topics in a visual way.

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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.