New trial database – Evidence Matters

Trial available until 29th February 2008

Evidence Matters is an online healthcare knowledge management system to assist decision makers in their treatment choices for patients. The main goal is to provide quick and easy access to evidence extracted from research articles on particular topics.

Data is extracted from medical treatment research articles published in peer-reviewed scientific print journals. Research from both past and present is aggregated and made available via comparative tables, graphs and bullet-point text summaries.

Using menus, you can construct a question on therapeutics, and get an answer in the form of a table, a list or a graph which summarizes a set of articles. From these views, you can drill down to single article summaries.

Go to: Evidence Matters

Password required. After logging in, click on the link for Evidence Matters to take you to the search page.

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New trial database – Early English Books Online

Trial available until 29th February 2008.

From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave’s Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing’s Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement.

They cover many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.

Go to: Early English Books Online trial

Login and password required.

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New trial databases – House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

Available until 29th February 2008

The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers are vital to the historical record of Britain, its former Colonies and the wider world. They are among the richest and most detailed primary sources for the history of the past two centuries, and are fundamental to an understanding of current legislation, policy making and the political environment.

HCPP online, with searchable full text, and detailed subject indexing, makes it possible to fully exploit the enormous potential of this resource for the first time.

Go to: 19th Century HC Parliamentary Papers trial

Go to: 20th Century HC Parliamentary Papers trial

Separate logins and passwords are required for each database.

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New trial database – Butler Group CIO Knowledge Center

Available until 14th March 2008

Butler Group research delivers independent technology assessments, technology comparison reports and strategy reports to validate and inform technology decisions. Additionally, Datamonitor provides constant industry specific IT Market analysis based on data collected via continual interviewing of IT Executives.

It provides both strategic and technology assessment, analysis & comparative content, and includes a custom report building facility.

Go to: Butler Group CIO Knowledge Center – register for yourself, or use our generic login and password

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