Online database trials

Throughout the year, the Library often has the opportunity to sample trial databases. This allows the entire campus community a chance to see what products are available, use them and hopefully drop a comment to the Library staff. If you use any of the products below, we would appreciate your feedback: is the content useful? Does the product have an intuitive interface? Does it surpass a similar product to which we already subscribe? Please send your questions and comments to Lauren Jensen, Public Services Librarian, x2303, or Rick Sayre, Library Director, x2192.

Euromonitor International  (Trial expires November 20, 2009)

Euromonitor International is described by the company as a product designed to "provides intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. That intelligences includes economic indicators including finance, foreign trade, government, energy and environment, population and people of 205 countries. We have over 600 in country analysts gathering this data which includes:

• 4 million internationally comparable statistics; 15,000 industry, company, country and consumer reports
• 17,000 rankings of leading companies by market share and brand share
• Daily updates on demographic, economic, social and political issues"

Try It! Illinois  (Trial expires November 30, 2009)

The Illinois State Library’s Try-It! Illinois Program is an annual trial of hundreds of databases from a number of commercial vendors will continue through November 30. Some of the vendors participating in this year's trial are: Auralog, BioOne, CABI, Capstone Publishers, H.W. Wilson, Encyclopedia Britannica, EBSCO, GALE/CENGAGE, Greenwood & ABC-CLIO (merged), MangoLanguages, Marshall Cavendish Digital, Morningstar, OCLC, Plunkett Research, ProQuest, Questia School, Rand McNally, ReferenceUSA, Rosen Publishers, Standard and Poors, Taylor and Francis, The World and I, TumbleBook Library, ValueLine, and World Book.

For Monmouth College students, faculty, and staff, passwords are available on the Message Boards or you may contact a librarian (ex. 2301) for more assistance.

Music Online  (Trial expires December 17, 2009)

A new offering from Alexander Street Press, Music Online is a collection of music based resources. Music Online provides audio, video, scores and text reference through one centralized interface. The online collection includes the following databases:

• African American Music Reference
• American Song
• Classical Music Library
• Classical Music Reference Library
• Classical Scores Library
• Contemporary World Music
• Dance in Video
• The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
• Opera in Video
• Jazz Music Library
• Smithsonian Global Sound - accessed independently

Gale Virtual Reference Library (Trial expires December 17, 2009)

A collection of over 4 million articles across a wide variety of subjects can be found in the Gale Virtual Reference Library.