Trial avail­able 3/27/12–4/23/12

http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/1univ/plog/LexisNexisAcademicTrial.asp
ID: DIANEGLOVER Pass­word: 42SW2Y

Send com­ments to: Cass Hart­nett

Pro­Quest Leg­isla­tive Insight is a Fed­eral leg­isla­tive his­tory ser­vice that makes avail­able thor­oughly researched com­pi­la­tions of dig­i­tal full text pub­li­ca­tions cre­ated by Con­gress dur­ing the process lead­ing up to the enact­ment of U.S. Pub­lic Laws.

Prod­uct Overview
Pro­Quest® leg­isla­tive his­to­ries are com­prised of fully search­able PDFs of full-text pub­li­ca­tions gen­er­ated in the course of con­gres­sional law­mak­ing. These include the full text of the Pub­lic Law itself, all ver­sions of related bills, law-specific Con­gres­sional Record excerpts, com­mit­tee hear­ings, reports, and prints. Also included are Pres­i­den­tial sign­ing state­ments, CRS reports, and mis­cel­la­neous con­gres­sional pub­li­ca­tions that pro­vide back­ground mate­r­ial to aid in the under­stand­ing of issues related to the mak­ing of the law.

Leg­isla­tive his­to­ries may be used to dis­cover the leg­isla­tive intent behind a spe­cific law and to aid in the teach­ing of leg­isla­tive process to law school and main cam­pus stu­dents. The his­to­ries also offer insight into laws of gen­eral inter­est to Polit­i­cal Sci­ence, Gov­ern­ment, and U.S. His­tory stu­dents, as well as to stu­dents prepar­ing for careers in pub­lic health, edu­ca­tion, busi­ness, or any other dis­ci­pline sub­ject to Fed­eral regulation.

http://www.PrivCo.com

Trial avail­able March 6, 2012 — April 2, 2012

Send com­ments to Doreen Har­wood

PrivCo is a rel­a­tively new busi­ness data­base that pro­vides infor­ma­tion on non-publicly traded cor­po­ra­tions. Com­pa­nies cov­ered in-depth by PrivCo include fam­ily and pri­vate equity owned busi­nesses, venture-backed busi­nesses, and unlisted inter­na­tional com­pa­nies. Much of this infor­ma­tion is not cov­ered in larger, well-known busi­ness data­bases that focus on publicly-traded companies.

http://mco.primarysourcesonline.nl/

Trial avail­able until 3/31/12

Send com­ments to Glenda Pear­son

This extra­or­di­nary col­lec­tion con­tains ca. 40,000 images, all full color and fully search­able. The mag­a­zines scanned are not in Google and can­not be found in any US library, at least not as com­pre­hen­sive as we offer them. This is con­sid­ered by schol­ars as the largest Latin Amer­i­can col­lec­tion in the US with a strong focus on film stud­ies. In fact, the two issues of El Cine Grá­fico are the only known to have sur­vived in the whole of Mex­ico. Cin­ema Reporter is held by only one other archive in Mex­ico and can­not be found any­where else in such a com­plete run (although even the Filmoteca’s run has some gaps).

The col­lec­tion also gives access to the per­sonal scrap­book of Fer­nando de Fuentes, a major direc­tor from the so-called “Golden Age” of Mex­i­can Cin­ema. This album is, of course, unique and many peo­ple work­ing on Mex­i­can Cin­ema will find this a great trea­sure. It con­tains reviews, movie stills, lobby cards, pho­tos from pre­mieres, etc.

The col­lec­tion will be of inter­est to aca­d­e­mics work­ing on Latin Amer­i­can Stud­ies, Film & Media Stud­ies, Queer Stud­ies, Gen­der Stud­ies, etc. One can find infor­ma­tion on movies and movie stars, but it’s also a trea­sure trove for peo­ple work­ing on early adver­tis­ing and fashion.