In March and October of each year, Gleeson Library/Geschke Center offers short-term trials of databases and other electronic resources we are considering adding to our collection. Current students, staff, and faculty should contact their library liaison to suggest an e-resource for trial or to add to a wishlist.
This semester we are trialing the following databases. To leave feedback about any these trials, please fill out this short survey.
- Gale Access Program – ends 3/21/22
Delivers over 50 core databases, Archives Unbound, and ebooks via a single interface. It provides support for key courses as well as key majors: business, health, nursing, technology, humanities, social sciences, sciences and more. See a list of all resources included in the trial and Program. - NewspaperArchive – ends 3/31/22
Provides full-text access to over 6,000 American, British, Canadian and many other international newspapers with coverage between 1607-present. Over 200 newspapers are from California, including Alta California, San Francisco Call, Hispano America, and the Oakland Tribune. - Data Planet module: Claritas Consumer Profiles – ends 3/31/22
Gleeson Library subscribes to Data Planet. We are currently trialing this additional module: The Claritas Consumer Profiles datasets comprise three different geo-demographic segmentation products: ConneXions®, PRIZM® Premier, and P$YCLE® Premier. - Data Planet module: EASI Market Planner – ends 3/31/22
Gleeson Library subscribes to Data Planet. We are currently trialing this additional module: Easy Analytic Software Inc. (EASI) is a software engineering and statistical modeling firm that specializes in consumer demographics. Using input data from the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Mediamark, EASI develops model-based indicators of the demographic characteristics, consumer spending, and behavior patterns for a wide range of geographic areas—states, counties, census tracts, and block groups. - ProQuest History Vault: The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century, Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1 – ends 4/8/22
Brings a new perspective to the Black Freedom Struggle via the records of major civil rights organizations and personal papers of leaders and observers. The three major civil rights organizations are the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, and the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs. Includes the papers of A. Philip Randolph, Bayard Rustin, and pioneering educator Mary McLeod Bethune. Through records of Claude A. Barnett’s Associated Negro Press, this module also branches out to cover other aspects of African American life in the 20th century, such as religion, sports, education, fraternal organizations, and even the field of entertainment. - ProQuest History Vault: Black Freedom Struggle of the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2 – ends 4/8/22
This Black Freedom module includes the records of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Africa-related papers of Claude Barnett, and the Robert F. Williams Papers. Rounding out this module are the papers of Chicago Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell, the Chicago chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality, and records pertaining to the Mississippi Freedom Summer. - ProQuest History Vault: Southern Life and African American History, Plantation Records, Part 3 – ends 4/8/22
Consists of collections selected from the holdings of the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These collections represent rice, cotton, and sugar plantations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. Major collections include Cameron Family Papers, and Pettigrew Family Papers. Includes several collections of cotton factors’ records, notably the records of Maunsell White from Louisiana, and the Gordon family from Savannah, Georgia.