Subject Compilations of State Laws, an index of articles, books, court opinions, and other publications that compare state laws, is now available online. You can browse by subject or search by keyword, title, author, cases or court. Many citations have full-text links. If you’d have questions about using this resource, ask us.
Month: March 2014
Trials for 3 Resources on the Ukraine
The Libraries have on trial from East View Information Services three databases covering the Ukraine:
- Statistical Publications of the Ukraine – Statistical data on key economic, social, and environmental trends and developments in Ukraine published by the State Statistical Services of Ukraine. Please provide your feedback.
- Ukraine Parliamentary Election 2012 – Ephemera and primary source material documenting the contentious Ukrainian Rada elections of October 28, 2012. Please provide your feedback.
- Ukrainian Publications – Newspapers and magazines of Ukraine (UDB-UKR) including publications in Russian, Ukrainian, and English. Please provide your feedback.
All trials will continue through April 17th, 2014. If you have questions about using any of these resources, please ask us.
PolicyMap on Trial
PolicyMap is a collection of demographic, real estate, city crime rate, health, school, housing affordability, employment, energy, and public investment indicators available on a GIS platform. You can build layers of data and view them by location.
The trial ends March 31st, 2014. The cost is $8,000 for an annual subscription. Please share your feedback (UMass NetID required for UMass Apps) with us about this resource.
Trial for Merck Index Online
The Merck Index Online provides authoritative source information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals. You can do a quick search on Name, CAS Registry Number, Molecular Formula or Molecular Weight, or a structure search. You can also browse by organic named reaction.
The trial ends April 4, 2014. The cost is $22,600 for purchase and $4,452 for annual subscription. Please share your feedback (UMass NetID required for UMass Apps) with us about this resource.
LGBT Thought and Culture on Trial
LGBT Thought and Culture from Alexander Street Press features documentaries, interviews, memoirs, speeches, biographies, archival footage and primary source collections exploring the cultural, social, and political evolution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people since the beginning of the twentieth century. You can browse or search by author, topic, archival collection and material type.
The trial continues through April 27th, 2014. Purchase price is $29,000. Please share your feedback (UMass NetID required for UMass Apps) with us about this resource.
ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library on Trial
The ASTM Standards and Engineering Digital Library collects industry-leading standards and technical engineering information covering aerospace, biomedical, chemical, civil, environmental, geological, health and safety, industrial, materials science, mechanical, nuclear, petroleum, soil science, and solar engineering. You can search by keyword or browse by category.
The trial continues through March 31st, 2014. Please share your feedback (UMass NetID required for UMass Apps) with us about this resource.
Trial for Engineering Case Studies Online
Engineering Case Studies Online is a database of videos and textual sources from Alexander Street Press covering engineering successes and failures. You can browse by event (e.g. Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse), subject (e.g. civil engineering, construction, nuclear engineering) or search by title, discipline, organization, content type and more.
The trial continues through March 31st, 2014. Please share your feedback (UMass NetID required for UMass Apps) with us about this resource.
Accessible Archives Collections on Trial
The Accessible Archives platform offers digitized American historical newspapers, county histories, books and a geneology catalog organized into collections by geography, theme (e.g. Civil War, Woman Suffrage) and personal narrative (e.g. Harriet Tubman, Twelve Years a Slave). You can browse by collection and search by keyword with limits by publication type, source and date.
The trial continues through March 25th, 2014. The collections are available for a subscription cost of $3,829/year. Please share your feedback (UMass NetID required for UMass Apps) with us.
OntheBoards.TV for Theater, Dance Performances
The Libraries have added a subscription to OntheBoards.TV, a collection of streaming videos of contemporary theater and dance performances. You can browse the films by date added or search for title or keyword.
If you have questions about using this resource, contact Jim Kelly, Theater Liaison Librarian, at 413-545-3981.
Psychological Experiments Online Now Available
Psychological Experiments Online is a new source of audio, video, text and web sites about psychological experiments from the 20th and 21st centuries. You can browse or search by experiment, psychologist, methodology, subject, title and publisher and limit by date, format and content type. This is a growing collection of resources.
If you have questions or would like assistance, contact Mike Davis, Psychology Liaison Librarian, at 413-545-6822.