AskART/Academic

http://www.askart.com

Trial avail­able 5/1/12–6/1/12

Send com­ments to Angela Weaver

AskART is an online data­base con­tain­ing over 200,000 artists. From its incep­tion the focus was on Amer­i­can artists from the early 16th-Century through the present. How­ever, in Jan­u­ary of 2007 the data­base expanded to include inter­na­tional artists’ auc­tion records.

Our web­site wel­comes col­lec­tors, gallery own­ers, researchers, apprais­ers, museum and library per­son­nel, artists, insur­ers, schol­ars, art afi­ciona­dos — any­one with inter­est in two and three-dimensional orig­i­nal fine art. We offer exten­sive bio­graph­i­cal infor­ma­tion about Amer­i­can artists as well as book and peri­od­i­cal ref­er­ences, along with Inter­na­tional artists’ auc­tion records and images. Over 6,000 muse­ums and deal­ers are also ref­er­enced. As a mem­ber of AskART, one has com­plete access to infor­ma­tion about the artists’ biogra­phies, auc­tion records, finan­cial graph­ics, mag­a­zine ads pre-1998, and images.

Take a tour: http://www.askart.com/AskART/help/artists_tour.aspx?artist=21592

Trial avail­able 5/1/12–5/31/12

http://www.hilltimes.com

Weekly news­pa­pers on Cana­dian pol­i­tics and gov­ern­ment affairs.

Send com­ments to Sion Romaine

Trial avail­able 4/27/12–5/28/12

http://www.indiaraj.amdigital.co.uk

This col­lec­tion from Adam Matthew fea­tures Man­u­script Col­lec­tions from the National Library of Scotland.

There is a grow­ing inter­est in the his­tory of South Asia. India has played a cru­cial role in global trad­ing net­works for cen­turies and was cen­tral to the story of Empire. More recently it has emerged as a vibrant democ­racy and a major eco­nomic power.

The National Library of Scot­land has won­der­ful col­lec­tions doc­u­ment­ing this his­tory from the foun­da­tion of the East India Com­pany in 1615 to the grant­ing of inde­pen­dence for India and Pak­istan in 1947.

The sources are extremely var­ied rang­ing from the papers of key East India Com­pany rep­re­sen­ta­tives and colo­nial offi­cials to records of daily life in Agra, Bom­bay, Lahore, and Madras. There are orig­i­nal Indian man­u­scripts con­tain­ing his­to­ries and lit­er­ary works, as well as accounts of wars, dis­cus­sions of Indian Nation­al­ism and papers of tea and cof­fee planters.

The col­lec­tion is par­tic­u­larly strong for the 18th and 19th cen­turies and will be of inter­est to schol­ars studying:

* Social his­tory
* Urban his­tory
* Trade and eco­nomic devel­op­ment
* Agri­cul­ture
* Travel and antiq­ui­ties
* Indian pol­i­tics
* The growth of Nation­al­ism
* Empire and World His­tory
* There are also impor­tant sources cov­er­ing Pak­istan,
Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Malaysia and Singapore.

Send feed­back to Deepa Baner­jee

http://www.nybooks.com

Trial avail­able until May 4, 2012

Send com­ments to Faye Chris­ten­berry

Trial avail­able April 5 — June 30, 2012

http://www.erudit.org/?lang=en

Sent com­ments to Sion Romaine

Éru­dit is the only North-American dis­sem­i­na­tion plat­form of schol­arly and cul­tural jour­nals in French lan­guage. Éru­dit is a plat­form whose mis­sion is to pro­mote and dis­sem­i­nate research and cul­ture. Éru­dit is a non-profit cor­po­ra­tion and an inter-university con­sor­tium of the Uni­ver­sité de Mon­tréal, Uni­ver­sité Laval, and Uni­ver­sité du Québec, which has oper­ated in the area of dig­i­tal pub­lish­ing since 1998.

http://www.statista.com

Trial avail­able April 4 to May 3, 2012

A brief overview:

Data aggre­ga­tion plat­form with sta­tis­tics, facts, and mar­ket data
More than 60,000 top­ics of infor­ma­tion – use­ful to stu­dents of all aca­d­e­mic fields
Over 10,000 pub­lic and pri­vate sources of infor­ma­tion
All sta­tis­tics can be directly down­loaded in JPG, Excel, and Pow­er­Point for­mats
All data pre­pared accord­ing to aca­d­e­mic cita­tion stan­dards, with links to the orig­i­nal source for fur­ther research

Review avail­able:
http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/01/reference/statista/

http://www.lrb.co.uk/

Trial avail­able until May 15, 2012

Send com­ments to Faye Chris­ten­berry

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.