Menu

The LibVine

What's going on at Dalhousie Libraries

Archives for trial resources

Update: Trial to Dynamed Plus now including ACP Smart Medicine

Leave a Comment

DynamedtoACPSmartMedicine

Updated August 31

A trial has been set up for Dynamed Plus, which will run until the end of September.  Dalhousie currently subscribes to Dynamed and to ACP Smart Medicine (formerly known as ACP PIER). By the end of the year, ACP Smart Medicine will be discontinued as a stand-alone product and the content will be incorporated into Dynamed Plus.

Please check it out during the trial period and provide your feedback on any advantages a subscription to Dynamed Plus might deliver by the end of September.

Please provide feedback through this online form by the end of  September.

 

Films On Demand: Trial Resource

Leave a Comment

Bring on the popcorn!

The Dalhousie Libraries are offering trial access to Films on Demand until April 22, 2012.

Films On Demand, a service of Films Media Group, is a web-based digital video service that allows you to view streaming videos anytime, anywhere. Choose from thousands of high-quality educational titles in dozens of subject areas. You can also organize and bookmark clips, create and share playlists, and personalize folders.

Films Media Group is a leading source of high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content. Films Media Group serves the education community through its four brands: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.

Choose your Films On Demand now!

BioOne: Biosciences Database Trial

Leave a Comment

The Dal Libraries are offering BioOne on a trial basis until April 30, 2012.

Explore this resource now and post your comments here to let us know what you think!

BioOne, a not-for-profit organisation, provides an online database of 171 high-quality biological, ecological and environmental sciences journals from 129 not-for-profit publishers. 70% of the titles are ISI ranked and almost half of the current titles are exclusively on BioOne. Topics covered include:

  • Agriculture
  • Biology
  • Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Environment
  • Forestry
  • Genetics
  • Geology
  • Marine & Freshwater Biology
  • Palaeontology
  • Plant Science
  • Zoology

View the complete title list (Open Access journals are marked with the OA icon)

Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals

7 Comments

RIPM was established in 1980 to provide access to eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century periodical literature dealing with music. The Dal Libraries are now offering a 30-day trial of RIPM’s new interface for the Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals (1800-1950), as well as the full-text Online Archive of Music Periodicals. The trial runs until February 26.

Explore RIPM and let us know how you like this music resource by posting comments here!

The Vogue Archive Online, On Trial

Leave a Comment


We’re offering The Vogue Archive for your viewing pleasure on a trial basis! The trial runs until February 17, and as part of our suite of Proquest databases it is available on and off campus.


The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. More than 400,000 pages are included, constituting a treasure trove of the work from the greatest designers, photographers, stylists and illustrators of the 20th and 21st centuries. Vogue is a unique record of American and international popular culture that extends beyond fashion. The Vogue Archive is a great primary source for the study of fashion, gender and modern social history past, present and future.

Explore The Vogue Archive now!

Marquis Biographies Online: Trial Database

Leave a Comment

Trial ends February 4, 2012.

Since 1899 Marquis Who’s Who has been recognized globally as the premier biographical data provider. Marquis Biographies Online is a searchable database featuring comprehensive profiles on over 1,444,914 of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor, including: government, business, science and technology, the arts, entertainment, and sports. The database provides access to all biographies that have appeared in 24 Marquis Who’s Who print volumes since 1985, plus historical biographies from our Who Was Who in America volumes from 1607-1985. The site is updated daily.

For on campus use only. Trial access is for a single concurrent user.

Explore Marquis Biographies Online now, and let us know what you think!

Please note: The site has a 10-minute automatic Time Out feature. If you leave your session inactive, after 10 minutes you’ll be asked to log in again. If you mistakenly close your Internet browser window (before choosing “Log Out”), you will need to wait 10 minutes before you can log back in.

BMJ Case Reports Free Trial

Leave a Comment

Try BMJ Case Reports for free from on and off campus until the end of December, 2011.

Connect now!

BMJ Case Reports is an award winning database that delivers a focused, peer-reviewed collection of cases in all disciplines so that healthcare professionals, researchers and others can easily find clinically important information on common and rare conditions. This is the largest single collection of case reports online!

Business Expert Press’s Digital Libraries

2 Comments

The Libraries are offering Business Expert Press’s Digital Libraries on a trial basis. These ebooks will be available until January 21, 2012 (trial has been extended as site was down temporarily).

Business Expert Press publishes concise, practical ebooks for students advancing towards degrees in business/management, or anyone, in fact, interested in entrepreneurship. For students seeking a BS or MBA, BE Press authors translate real-life business experiences into teaching tools in topics such as accounting, supply chain management, cultural issues, and sustainability. Editors from Georgetown University, the University of Southern California, Boston University, Georgia Tech and others are building curriculum-connected collections mapped to the programs taught in business and management schools, so they’re relevant for today’s students.

Explore this resource now, and let us know what you think!

Trial Access to GreenR

Leave a Comment

Dalhousie Libraries are offering a one-month trial of GreenR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources), a database which provides information on the physical, economic, and social aspects of environmental and sustainability issues.

GreenR includes references to journal articles, encyclopedia entries, book reviews, news stories, case studies, statistics, reports and podcasts. The interactive database also features a number of video interviews (known as the Green Interviews) with prominent environmentalists and researchers.

The trial lasts until December 9th, so please check it out now!

Free Trial – AnatomyTV’s 3D Real Time Body

1 Comment

 Connect now for a free trial to AnatomyTV’s 3D Real Time Body. Available until Nov. 16, 2011

Did you know?  Dalhousie University currently has Free Trial access to AnatomyTV’s  3D Real Time Body through November 16th!

Log in today!

3D Real-Time Body:With Intuitive user driven functionality, you can view clear, detailed and accurate 3D real-time modeling of human anatomy regionally. Create your own views to save as bookmarks or label, annotate, and export your own bespoke images.

  • Fully interact with models. Rotate the 3D models in any direction using your mouse, zoom in or out and use intuitive functions to add or remove bones, arteries, veins, nerves, muscles, organs, skin etc. View any structure in isolation.
  • Found a view you want to use again? Simply save the view as a bookmark so you can come back to it anytime.
  • Create your own image library. Use the advanced functionality to create the perfect view, add appropriate labels for one or multiple structures, then use edit functions to save the image for use in presentations or patient education.
  • Highlight and label any structure, and even view through x-ray.
  • Export images with personalized labels in whichever language you choose.