TRIAL: Ghana & Togo under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports 1843-1957

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to Ghana & Togo under Colonial Rule, in Government Reports 1843-1957 until 3rd October 2017. Take a look at this resource, and let us know what you think.

Annual departmental reports relating to the Gold Coast and Togoland, 1843-1957 contains 11 volumes providing reports and statistics for such areas as: administration, finance, judiciary, police and prisons, natural resources, social services and more. The reports provide data and insights which help us to consider the significant cultural changes of the nineteenth century.

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TRIAL: GREENR

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to GREENR until 30^th June 2017. Take a look at this resource, and let us know what you think.

GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources) is an online resource that offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more. This resource includes journal articles, videos, case studies and statistics, and covers topics such as animal welfare, biodiversity, conservation, economic growth and environmental justice.
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TRIAL: U.S. Declassified Documents

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to  U.S. Declassified Documentsuntil 19^th June 2017. Take a look at this resource, and let us know what you think.

U.S. Declassified documents makes it possible for researchers to easily and quickly access and review selected previously classified government documents online.

This digital collection supports studies in domestic and foreign policy and provides unique opportunities for undergraduate and graduate comprehensive research in a rich primary source. In addition, U.S. Declassified Documents Online provides basic research for journalism, public policy studies, international law and security, and other disciplines.

Material in U.S. Declassified Documents Online originated in a wealth of official bodies and agencies, including the FBI, White House, CIA, U.N. and the State Department.

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TRIAL: The Independent Digital Archive

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to The Independent Digital Archive until 19^th June 2017. Take a look at this resource, and let us know what you think.

The Independent Digital Archive presents a digital collection of every page of every issue of The Independent, a national daily newspaper launched in 1986. These digitized pages let you view the pages as they originally appeared in print. The archive also features full-text searching, extensive indexing, keywords in context, and highlighted search terms.

You can search digitized content from two newspapers: The Independent and The Independent on Sunday.

Articles are categorized according to the following publication sections:

• Advertising
• Business and Finance
• Editorial and Commentary
• Features
• News
• People

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TRIAL: Skills4Study

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to Skills4Study until 17th June 2017.  Take a look at this resources, and let us know what you think.

Access: Skills4Study
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The first time you access Skills4Study you need to register for a personal account.  On the Skills4Study login page, the link to register is under the login box, marked “First time accessing the resource?”

Skills4Study Campus is an interactive resource for developing student study skills. Topics include critical thinking, reading and note taking, time management and many more

Click here to watch a short introductory video about Skills4Study.

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TRIAL: Kanopy Streaming

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to film and video streaming service Kanopy now until 15/06/17.  We have extended this trial so do take a look at this resource, and let us know what you think.

Access:Kanopy
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Kanopy provides access to one of the most unique collections of films in the world. Films range from award-winning documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics, training films and theatrical releases - on every topic imaginable


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TRIAL: Greenleaf Online Library

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to Greenleaf Online Library (GOL) until 30th May 2017. Take a look at this resource, and let us know what you think.

Access: Greenleaf Online Library
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Greenleaf Online Library (GOL) includes ebooks and journals covering corporate responsibility, business ethics, environmental policy and management, responsible business strategy and sustainable development.
GOL is the perfect resource for:
• Researchers, students and practitioners interested in business, management and cross-disciplinary aspects of sustainability and CSR
• Business and management teachers in need of engaging and inspiring case studies
• Sustainability Teams within corporate organizations

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TRIAL: Bridgeman Education

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to Bridgeman Education until 30th May 2017. Take a look at this resource, and let us know what you think.

Access: Bridgeman Education 
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Bridgeman Education is the online educational resource of the Bridgeman Art Library. It offers access to an archive of over 500,0000 unique high quality digital images of art, history and culture – all copyright cleared for educational use.

Images are sourced directly from leading museums, galleries, artists, photographers and private collections around the world. Bridgeman Art Library represents over 2,000 collections and more than 29,000 artists.

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TRIAL: Kluwer Arbitration

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to ‘Kluwer Arbitration’ until 15th May 2017.  Take a look at this resource, and let us know what you think.

Access: Kluwer Arbitration
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KluwerArbitration.com is a leading online resource for international arbitration research. It contains a wealth of commentary from expert authors and an extensive collection of primary source materials. Subscribers also gain access to exclusive materials including ICC cases and awards.

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TRIAL: Elsevier eLibrary (additional titles)

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to additional titles in the Elsevier eLibrary ebook collection until 30th June 2017.  To access the additional titles, click on the links below (University login required off campus)

Veterinary Science
Equine internal medicine. 3rd ed.
Large animal internal medicine. 5th ed.

Nursing
Calculating drug doses safely. 2nd ed.
Infection control in clinical practice. 3rd ed.
Key topics in public health

Physiotherapy & Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy for children
Physiotherapy for respiratory and cardiac problems
Foundations for practice in occupational therapy 

Radiography
An introduction to radiography
Magnetic resonance imaging. 4th ed.
         

Take a look at the additional titles and let us know what you think.

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TRIAL: Chatham House Online Archive

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to the Chatham House Online Archive until 5th May 2017. Take a look at this resource, and let us know what you think.

Access: Chatham House Online Archive
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Chatham House Online Archive is a rich collection covering the 20th and 21st centuries. Containing over 90 years of high level analysis and research on global trends and key events and issues, it provides a searchable, browsable research environment that enables users to explore approximately half a million pages of research, expert analysis and commentary.

Subject-indexed briefing papers, special reports, pamphlets, conference papers and monographs allow users to quickly retrieve and analyse material relevant to their own research or study. Users also have access to the full text of Chatham House’s two flagship publications: the leading academic journal International Affairs and the magazine The World Today. Additionally, the archive offers unique access to thousands of hours of audio recordings of Chatham House lectures and their fully searchable transcripts offering valuable insight into the thoughts and reasoning of key figures in international affairs.
Global in reach, key research topics include:

Diplomacy & International Relations, Energy, Environment & Development, International Economics, Trade & Business
International & National Politics, International Security & Law and Global Health Security.

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TRIAL: Harper's Weekly 1857-1912

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to the ‘Harper's Weekly 1857-1912’ digital archive until 9th April 2017.  Take a look at this resources, and let us know what you think.

Access: Harper’s Weekly
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Harper’s Weekly was the definitive newspaper of record for the latter part of the nineteenth century and early twentieth. It had broad national distribution and some international, a circulation that exceeded 100,000 and peaked at 300,000, and effective readership of at least half a million people. Harper's Weekly: 1857–1912 is the definitive version of the newspaper in electronic form.

Illustrations are indexed to allow retrieval of topics, places, portraits and visual content; e.g., slaves escaping to the Union side are indexed as contrabands. Cartoon indexing allows users to search by subject as well as by character. More than 100,000 advertisements are indexed topically (jewellery, cough remedies, political campaign merchandise) as well as by manufacturer or retailer. Harper’s Weekly: 1857–1912  also has more than 10,000 pages of annotations, essays, and notes that provide detailed explications of materials in the database. Examples include The Presidential Elections, 1860-1884, as depicted in Political Cartoons and Prints, which provides a comprehensive overview of the role of political cartoons in presidential elections from Abraham Lincoln to Grover Cleveland.

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TRIAL: Race Relations in America

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to the ‘Race Relations in America’ digital archive until 3rd April 2017.  Take a look at this resources, and let us know what you think.

Access: Race Relations in America
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Please note that PDF download options are not available during the trial.

This collection contains a wealth of primary source material on the Civil Rights Movement, segregation, discrimination and racial theory in America during three pivotal decades of the twentieth century.

The Race Relations Department, based at Fisk University, was a highly influential think tank offering a forum for discussion and research on racial topics. The work of the Department highlighted topics such as poverty and inequality, class, housing, employment, education and government policy. Its programme attracted many well-known figures in the Civil Rights Movement, including Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., Bayard Rustin, Charles Houston, and Marguerite Cartwright. This resource sheds light on the fascinating work of the Department through the digitisation of extensive records from the Department’s archives. The collection contains excellent survey material, including interviews, questionnaires, statistics, raw data and analyses.

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TRIAL: Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) digital archives until 31st March 2017.  Take a look at this resources, and let us know what you think.

Access:  Nineteenth Century Collections Online
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NCCO is the result of partnerships between Gale and almost 100 libraries to preserve and digitise content for academic research.  It includes digitized primary source materials relating to the long nineteenth century.  Sources include monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, ephemera, photographs, statistics, maps and more.

NCCO is divided into twelve collections:

Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
British Politics and Society
British Theatre, Music, and the Arts: High and Popular Culture
Children's Literature and Childhood
Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection
Mapping the World: Maps and Travel Literature
Photography: The World Through the Lens
Religion Spirituality, Reform and Society
Science, Technology and Medicine, 1780-1925 Part I and Part II
Women: Transnational Networks

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TRIAL: Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to the Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) until 31st March 2017.  Take a look at this resources, and let us know what you think.

Access: Digital National Security Archive (DNSA)
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From the nongovernmental National Security Archive, this resource consists of declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present. Each collection is assembled by foreign policy experts and features chronologies, glossaries, bibliographies, and scholarly overviews to provide unparalleled access to the defining international issues of our time.

Find our more about the DNSA collections on the Proquest DNSA LibGuide

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TRIAL: Women's Magazine Archive

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to Women's Magazine Archive until 22nd February 2017.  Take a look at this resources, and let us know what you think.

Access: Women's Magazine Archive
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Women’s Magazine Archive Part 1 provides access to the complete archives of the foremost titles of consumer magazines aimed at a female readership, including Good Housekeeping and Ladies’ Home Journal, which serve as canonical records of evolving assumptions about gender roles and cultural mores.

Women’s Magazine Archive part 2 features several of the most prominent, high-circulating, and long-running publications in this area, such as Woman’s Day and Town & Country. Collection 2 also includes some titles focusing on more specific audiences and themes. Cosmopolitan and Seventeen, for example, are oriented towards a younger readership, while black women’s interests are represented by Essence. Women’s International Network News differs in being a more political, activist title, with an international dimension.

Topics covered these collections include family life, home economics, health, careers, fashion, culture, and many more; this material serves multiple research areas, from gender studies, social history, and the arts, through to education, politics, and marketing/media history.

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TRIAL: Skills4Study

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to Skills4Study until 16th February 2017.  Take a look at this resources, and let us know what you think.

Access: Skills4Study
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The first time you access Skills4Study you need to register for a personal account.  On the Skills4Study login page, the link to register is under the login box, marked “First time accessing the resource?”

Skills4Study Campus is an interactive resource for developing student study skills. Topics include critical thinking, reading and note taking, time management and many more

Click here to watch a short introductory video about Skills4Study.

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TRIAL: Scientific American Medical Resources

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to additional ‘Scientific American’ medical resources, until 2nd February 2017.  Take a look at these resources, and let us know what you think.

Access: Scientific American medical resources
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The trial includes access to the following resources:

• Scientific American Medicine
• Scientific American Surgery
• Scientific American Neurology
• Scientific American Vascular & Endovascular Surgery
• Scientific American Emergency Medicine
• Scientific American Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Endoscopy
• Scientific American Pain Management
• Scientific American Nephrology
• Scientific American Critical Care of the Surgical patient

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TRIAL: CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

University of Liverpool staff and students have trial access to The CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, until 10th February 2017. Take a look at this resource, and let us know what you think.

Access: CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics
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CRC Press’s web version of the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics has been serving the scientific community for over 15 years.  Ideal for researchers in academic settings, this online product has several interactive tools and features designed to help users access trusted chemical and physical data in a seamless manner.

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TRIAL: South Asia Archive

The University of Liverpool has trial access to South Asia Archive until 12th February 2017

Access:  South Asia Archive
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The South Asia Archive is a digital archive, providing online access to documents ranging from the mid-18th to the mid-20th Century. Focusing on South Asia, the Archive includes reports, rare books, and journal runs from noteworthy, rare publications.

The documents in the Archive are interdisciplinary, reflecting the varied range of knowledge production in colonial and early post-colonial India in fields including:

Culture and society
Industry and economy,
Science, technology and medicine
Urban planning and administration
Politics and law

Comprising material sourced from archivists in India by the South Asia Research Foundation, this Archive brings together a wealth of important primary content.

Take a look at this resource and let us know what you think.

Please note that PDF document downloads are not available during this trial period, although documents and images may still be viewed on screen.

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