The links listed below are to databases which the Auraria Library is evaluating for subscription. Trial periods vary, and are posted when we have definite dates. There is some uncertainty with the trials, so database availability may fluctuate.
Please use this comment form and help us with the evaluation: tell us what you like, don't like, or wish you had.
To suggest a trial, contact the appropriate collection development librarian at the Library.
Academic eBook Collection
Trial ends: June 30, 2012 | Comments
userid: clic | password: trial
Description: Includes 50,000 ebook titles wih unlimited access to all the eBooks. These EBSCOhost eBooks can be downloaded to personal readers including Nooks and iPads.
Education in Video (Alexander Street Press)
Trial ends: May 31, 2012 | Comments
Description: "Education in Video is the first online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Upon completion, the collection will contain more than 3,000 video titles totaling 1,300 hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. It will give education faculty, students, and in-service teachers a single source for the best research-based professional development video resources available. This release now provides 593 titles, equaling approximately 218 hours." Alexander Street Press.
LGBT Life w/Full Text
Extended trial | Comments
Description: LGBT Life w/Full Text is the premier resource to the world's literature regarding Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Transsexual issues. Comprehensive coverage includes traditional academic, lifestyle, and regional publications as well as non-periodical content such as non-fiction books, bibliographies and dissertations. Disciplines include athletics, health, law, sociology, family, religion, civil liberties, employment and entertainment.
TeachingBooks.net
Trial ends: May 31, 2012 | Comments
E-mail: Enter your email address (required) | username: Auraria | password: Auraria
Description: TeachingBooks.net is a database of multimedia materials about children's and young adult books, authors, and illustrators. A digital library with tens of thousands of resources supporting every book being read in the K-12 curriculum. Includes the following: exclusive movies and audio productions with authors introducing their books and revealing their craft, enabling anyone to learn directly from the author when reading a book; audio book readings, author websites and blogs, video book trailers, and other engaging resources to infuse multimedia into reading activities; ready-to-use, evaluated lesson plans and book discussion guides that prompt discussion and enhance the teaching of books; resources that can be aligned with a single click to your syllabi and other reading lists.
University Press Scholarship Online
Trial ends: June 16, 2012 | Comments
username: ucauraria | password: ucauraria
Description: A growing cross-searchable library to the full text of over 7,000+ academic monographs in 21 subject areas covering the humanities, social sciences, medicine, and law from six leading university presses.