Access World News Research Collection offers information on issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level including print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Access includes NewsBank’s SPECIAL REPORTS a compilation of full-text articles, images, maps and websites covering monthly themes and current events relating to World Economics, Issues in the News, World Health, and Natural Disasters.
This trial was available from October 5-October 31, 2012.
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AnthroSource is a service of the American Anthropological Association offering full-text anthropological resources from the breadth and depth of the discipline. AnthroSource contains past, present, and future AAA publications with more than 250,000 articles from AAA journals, newsletters, bulletins and monographs.
This trial was available from September 25-October 27, 2012.
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Building on the inductive translational approach to the science of behavior analysis, this 2-volume handbook reviews contemporary laboratory research in behavior analysis. Appropriate for students, researchers, and clinicians, it affords the reader coverage of the logic, clinical utility, and methods of single-case research designs, and the design, data collection, and data analysis phases. It also includes chapters devoted to a particular behavioral/developmental disorder or to behavior of societal importance, with each providing a review of what works and where additional research is needed.
This trial will be available from October 25 - November 24.

Updated daily, Apabi provides the full text of 355 Chinese newspapers (more than 80% of China’s newspaper sources) covering government, industry-specific, regional, national, and other publications. Newspaper content is displayed in its original format, images and text and users may read online, download to your computer, or produce page prints.
Advanced searching functions support multiple fields and conditions. Search by newspaper, columns, articles, pictures, etc.
This was available until March 26, 2013

A medical and health care database the Cochrane Library is a collection of six databases that contain different types of independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making, and a seventh database that provides information about groups in The Cochrane Collaboration. This database includes the following collections: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials; Cochrane Methodology Register; Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects; Health Technology Assessment Database; NHS Economic Evaluation Database; About The Cochrane Collaboration.
This trial was available until March 31, 2013

[PLEASE NOTE: download options are not available during trials.]The Confidential Print series, issued by the Foreign and Colonial Offices since around 1820, is one of the fundamental building blocks for research that should be possessed by any academic library and one of the most important series produced by the British Government.
Spanning the full era of the modern European colonisation of Africa, from the occupation of Algeria by France, through increasing British presence on the west African coast and around the Cape of Good Hope in the south, the Berlin Conference which set off the ‘Scramble for Africa’, the high-water mark of economic exploitation of Africans in the Congo Free State, rivalries amongst European powers and the era of withdrawal that followed the Second World War, Confidential Print: Africa is a fundamental resource for academics, students and researchers studying modern Africa and its recent history. This trial was available November 12- December 10.

The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, includes papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. These range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties. Covering revolutions, territorial changes and political movements, foreign financial interests, industrial and infrastructural development, wars, slavery, immigration from Europe and relations with indigenous peoples, among other topics, the documents in this title are appropriate for scholar of Latin American history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This resources is now available at: http://libguides.furman.edu/content.php?pid=254914&sid=2104708

The CQ Almanac offers coverage and analysis of U.S. congressional legislation from 1945 to today. CQ Almanac includes analysis of the path legislation takes through Congress, including how bills are changed, derailed, or ultimately passed during an annual session of Congress.
This trial was available until January 9, 2013.

Encyclopedia of Religion in America examines how religious history and practices are woven into the political, social, cultural, and historical landscape of North America. This four-volume reference work explains the origins, development, adaptation, influence, and interrelations of the many faiths practiced, including major world religions, new religious sects, cults, and religious movements that originated or had an influence in the United States.
This trial was available until January 9, 2013.

This database offers more than 1,000 key food industry and market reports, as well as tens of thousands of additional food industry articles, benchmarks and best practices, selected from thousands of trade and industry publications. This source includes full text with images, tables, charts, and other graphical content from many key titles.
This trial will be available until April 8, 2013.

FSTA covers topics relating to every aspect of the food chain including all the major food commodities plus biotechnology, microbiology, food safety, additives, nutrition, packaging and pet foods. The database includes material from over 4600 serial publications published in up to 40 languages.
This trial was available until April 8, 2013.

Gale is offering a special package of resources to South Carolina academic libraries including, but not limited to:
• Academic OneFile
• Books & Authors
• Business & Company Resource Center
• Custom Newspapers
• Educator's Reference Complete
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Health & Wellness Resource Center
• Science In Context
• Small Business Resource Center
• US History In Context
• World History In Context
This trial was available through August 1, 2012 on campus only and is now available through our All Databases Page - http://libguides.furman.edu/alldatabases

This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. The commodities featured in this resource have been transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years. They helped transform societies, global trading operations, habits of consumption and social practices. This trial was available from November 12- December 21.

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Medici.tv offers over 1000 programs available on streaming VOD; the majority of films are accessible in high quality (HD). This resource includes filmed concerts by current performers in classical music and documentaries on performers and composers. In addition, the catalogue offers numerous educational programs and master classes.
This trial was available until November 30, 2012
A mobile device application for this resource is available at: https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/medici.tv/id376813468?mt=8

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text includes nearly 3 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with over 1 million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works.
This trial was available from October 15-November 15, 2012.

Resources for College Libraries provides a list of core print and electronic resources for academic libraries, including over 75,000 titles in 117 subjects. Developed by ACRL’s Choice and Bowker, RCL covers the two-year and four-year college curriculum and provides a list of core titles for undergraduate study.
A case sensitive username and password are required for access to RCL:
USERNAME: Furman
PASSWORD: 7364313006
This trial will be available until December 14, 2012.

RISM - Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600 is the most comprehensive annotated index and guide to music manuscripts containing more than 657,000 manuscript records by over 22,500 composers found in over 800 libraries and archives in 32 countries.
This trial was available until October 22, 2012
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SAGE Knowledge is a social sciences digital library created for students, researchers, and faculty. Incorporating more than 2,500 titles, it includes SAGE eBook and eReference content, containing scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more.
This trial was available from October 15-January 9, 2013.

SAGE Research Methods searches over 100,000 pages of SAGE book, journal and reference content. Users can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. SAGE Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than discipline and can be used across the social sciences, and health sciences.
This trial was available from October 15-January 9, 2013

ProQuest Statistical Insight provides access to statistical information produced by U.S. Federal agencies, states, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Users can search between 200,000 to 500,000 tables with its advanced Search Tables functionality. This resource is updated monthly, allows line-item access to tables, and offers narrowing by source, data date, subject, and type of data breakdown.
This trial was available from October 5- November 5, 2012

The Current Digest of the Chinese Press offers a broad-survey of current events and happenings as reported by mass media in the People’s Republic of China. Updated weekly, the Digest offers a collection of articles, translated into English, from dozens of key Chinese newspapers on a wide range of topics, including politics, international relations, security, economics, education, public health, and culture.
This trial was available until March 26, 2013

The PsycTESTS repository for ready-to-use tests and measures features instruments that are relevant to psychology and related fields, such as psychiatry, education, medicine, business, and social work. International in scope, this resource provides access to thousands of actual test instruments, most of which are available for immediate download and use in teaching and research. PsycTESTS is an authoritative source of structured information about tests of interest to a variety of fields, and while focused on contemporary instances of test use, has coverage that spans more than a century.
This trial was available until March 17, 2013.

This collection includes Women's Travel Diaries and Correspondence from The Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. These diaries and the supporting correspondence describe the travel experiences, destinations and desires of nineteenth and twentieth century American women. Included are first-hand accounts of major historical events as reported by eye witnesses, detailing key interests and themes in women’s lives, providing snapshots of cities, cultures and customs, and charting the rise of modern tourism and the travel industry.
This was available until March 7, 2013