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Media Technology Monitor (MTM©) is Canada's premier research product in the area of technology ownership and use. MTM provides valuable insight into consumer trends on existing and emerging technologies, and its large sample sizes and high response rates allow clients to uncover more about the niche markets and demographic groups that are relevant to them.

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Trial ends on February 14, 2013.

Black Women Writers presents 100,000 pages of literature and essays on feminist issues, written by authors from Africa and the African Diaspora. Facing both sexism and racism, black women needed to create their own identities and movements. The collection documents that effort, presenting the woman’s perspective on the diversity and development of black people generally, and in particular the works document the evolution of black feminism.

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The trial ends on November 21, 2012.

Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI), a multidisciplinary, full-text database that brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press. There is a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives. CWI includes English-language titles from East and West Africa, Asia, and South and Central America, the Caribbean, North America and Europe.

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The trial ends on November 13, 2012.

Medici.tv is the world’s unique virtual concert hall. It is a high definition audiovisual platform, specialized in classical music, opera and dance. It provides a reference catalogue to numerous films, live broadcasts, and unlimited access to a streaming catalogue....

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The trial ends on November 12, 2012.

Family & Society Studies Worldwide provides comprehensive coverage of research, policy, and practice literature in the fields of Family Science, Human Ecology, Human Development, and Social Welfare. It indexes publications from a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history and social work. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, statistical documents, theses & dissertations and other sources. Dates covered: 1970 to the present

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The trial ends on Nov. 8, 2012.

The Illustrated London News Historical Archive gives students and researchers full color digitized images of the entire run of the ILN from 1842 to 2003.

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers are a rich compendium of British history from the early 1600s to the first years of the 19th century.  This collection provides access to the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney.  It is one of the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media.

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These trials end on November 16, 2012.

Short Story Index aims to index all the important collections and anthologies of short stories that are published each year. All literay genres are covered. Content includes detailed indexing of more than 117,000 stories from more than 4,200 collections and anthologies and full text for nearly 5,000 stories. Coverage is from (1984)-

Short Story Index Retrospective provides access to the full content of the Short Story Index from 1915 through to 1983. Content includes bibliographic entries on more than 150,000 short stories, and citations to short stories published from the 1830s to the 1980s, from some 350 periodicals and collections of short stories.

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These trials end on August 10, 2012.

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive contains the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in color, with granular indexing of all articles, covers, ads and reviews.

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The trial ends on August 3, 2012.

The International Index of Music Periodicals Full Text is an unrivaled resource for music research. This database provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals. It covers the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition.

The trial ends on July 15, 2012.

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Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries is the largest and most comprehensive streaming audio collection of world music. It currently provides streaming access to tracks from the Smithsonian archives and world music archives in Asia and Africa.

We also have a trial to Music Online, a resource that allows users to cross-search all of the Alexander Street Press music databases that Carleton subscribes to - Classical Music Library, Classical Scores Library, and Garland Encyclopedia of World Music as well as the trial to Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries.

The trials end on July 4, 2012.

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The Index to Printed Music (IPM) is an invaluable resource for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions. Included is music from ancient Greek times to the present.

The trial ends on June 21, 2012.

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Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) provides coverage of pure and applied research in food science, food technology, and food-related human nutrition. It covers the complete food manufacturing cycle, from initial market research to final packaging. FSTA includes food-related literature from journals, books, conference proceedings, reports, theses, patents, standards, and legislation.

The trial has been extended until June 29, 2012.

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"Cambridge Books Online offers access to eBooks covering subjects from all disciplines across science, technology and medicine, as well as humanities and social sciences."

This trial ends May 3, 2012.

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We have a trial to Canada Supreme Court Reports (1876-2010) from HeinOnline. This title includes Reports of the Supreme Court of Canada (1876-1923), Canada Law Reports (1923-1969) and Canada Supreme Court Reports (1970) -.

The trial runs until Feb. 29, 2012.

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The Benezit Dictionary of Artists has over 190,000 entries on artists from antiquity to the present day and is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources on artists in the English language. It contains thousands of auction records, museum holdings and bibliographies, has superb coverage of obscure artists and also includes images of artists’ signatures, monograms and stamps. The database is updated 3 times per year to reflect new scholarship, artists and updates to existing entries.

The Benezit Dictionary of Artists is available on Oxford Art Online and is cross-searchable with Grove Art Online and other Oxford art reference resources.

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The trial has been extended until Feb. 15, 2012.

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Sustainability Watch topics focus on the concept of “People – Planet – Profits” and provide... summaries with key developments across the sustainability spectrum. By monitoring thousands of leading journals and periodicals, Sustainability Watch presents best practices in a variety of sustainability areas including environmental impacts and pollution prevention initiatives, corporate citizenship, and long-term sustainable business practices.

The trial has been extended until December 31, 2011.

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Vogue is a unique record of American and international popular culture that extends beyond fashion. The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day, with no embargo period.

The trial has been extended until Nov. 25, 2011.

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