New trial - China Yearbook & China Reference works

Trial available until 31st August 2008.

China Yearbook is the most comprehensive Yearbok database in China. It collects 1582 titles of world, national, and provincial-level yearbooks, industry yearbooks, subject yearbooks, school yearbooks, enterprise yearbooks and statistical yearbooks, totaling at 8,000 volumes by the end of 2007.  All artucles can be retreived by CAJ or PDF downloading, and the search on chart or image are supported.

China Reference works are the most fundamental and indispensable resources for knowledge service. China Reference Works Online (CRWO) collects more than 1,500 volumes, including dictionaries, thesauruses, cyclopedias, atlases, illustrated handbooks, chronicles, and so on by the end of 2007. It doesnot need any additional Reader installing, ad users can use this database by simply online browsing.

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New trial - On Examination

Trial available until 12th September 2008.

On Examination provides medical professionals with current and relevant online revision courses. The question library includes thousands of internationally relevant questions in two resources: Basic, for students in the early part of their training, and Advanced, for students preparing for final exams.

It includes:

• High quality questions with explanatory answers based on typical exam themes.
• Detailed score analysis so that you can gauge your performance against your peers, and also recognise your strengths and weaknesses.
• Adapted learning which personalises the site to your educational needs.

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New trial - GeoRef

Trial available until 29th August 2008

The Library currently has a subscription to this database from a different provider, and we are now trialling GeoRef on the Engineering Village platform.

Note: To search only GeoRef, uncheck the boxes at the top of the screen for the other databases.

The GeoRef database, established by the American Geological Institute in 1966, provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef is the most comprehensive database in the geosciences and continues to grow by more than 90,000 references a year. The database contains over 2.9 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.

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New trial - Entrepreneurship

Trial available until 22nd August 2008

Search worldwide publications and multi-media related to the topic of Entrepreneurship. Intended to bridge theory with practice, the Entrepreneurship database covers a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Content ranges from the scholarly - including journals, dissertations, working papers and conference proceedings - to a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans, and tips from successful entrepreneurs.

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