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Databases in Database Trials

To suggest a database to trial, please contact the liaison librarian for your department or program.

The UMass Amherst Libraries would like to receive comments from library users about the usefulness of electronic resources on trial. Please send comments to the designated contact person.
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Academic Charts Online

Database trial ends 05/31/13. Please send comments to Pam Juengling,413-545-1858.

Includes over 60 years of popular music data.
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Black Studies in Video

Database trial ends 04/14/13. Please send comments to Isabel Espinal,413-545-6812.

Black Studies in Video is a collection featuring award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States.
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Books at JSTOR

Database trial ends 04/30/13. For username/password information contact the Reference Desk at 413-545-0150.

This is just a preview of Books at JSTOR containing 100 titles.
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British Records on the Atlantic World, 1700-1900

Database trials end 03/31/13. Please send comments to Jim Kelly, 413-545-3981.

This series brings together a wealth of collections spanning two centuries of Britain's colonisation, commercial, missionary and even literary relations with Africa and the Americas.
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Hartford Courant Historical Newspaper (1764-1987)

Database trial ends 04/24/13. Please send comments to Jim Kelly, 413-545-3981.

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
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History Vault

Database trial ends 05/15/13. Please send comments to Peter Stern, 413-545-3967.

This collection includes primary source materials from its University Publications of America (UPA) Collection.
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Index to Printed Music

Database trial ends 05/31/13. Please send comments to Pam Juengling,413-545-1858.

This invaluable resource for music researchers and students indexes music from ancient Greek times to the present.
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The Latino-Hispanic American Experience

Database trial ends 07/09/13. Please send comments to Peter Stern, 413-545-3967.

The Latino-Hispanic American Experience: Leaders, Writers, and Thinkers presents thematic content focusing on the evolution of Hispanic civil rights, religious thought, and the growing presence of women writers from the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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