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Products in this section have been selected for addition to the ASU Libraries' collection of electronic resources. They will be listed here for 2 months, after which they can be found on the Find Articles page.

Naxos Sheet Music Library (Posted: 3/12/07) Email Us Comments

Delivers digital sheet music in all classical genres, spanning music from Medieval to the 21st century and composers from Bach to Arvo Part. Sheet music can be download 24/7 and printed using the downloaded Solero viewer.

FMG On Demand (Posted: 3/11/07) Email Us Comments

Films Media Group (FMG) is a comprehensive collection of nearly 5000 high-quality educational videos available for video streaming to the computer desktop. Titles cover a wide range of topics organized into 20 subject folders. Individual Learning Objects for each title subdivide the videos into smaller segments.

Ecosal (Posted: 2/28/08) Email Us Comments

EcoSal is a continually updated resource based on the classic ASM Press publication Escherichia coli and Salmonella: Cellular and Molecular Biology. EcoSal is an archive of knowledge on the enteric bacterial cell and includes links to sites containing extensive tabular and pictorial presentations, as well as to active databases of primary research information.

Urban Land Institute Development Case Studies (Posted: 2/12/08) Email Us Comments

This database includes more than 450 case studies of development projects of all kinds: residential, retail, office, industrial, hotel, public sector, green development, everything. They are all innovative in their markets, have special features, and are proven to be financially successful. There are also profiles of award winning projects andlinks to "cool projects" that the research department found interesting, but not open long enough to be proven financially successful.

Literature Criticism Online (Posted: 2/11/08) Email Us Comments

Includes biographical and bibliographical information on 20th century and contemporary literary figures (novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers, and literary theorists), and scholarly and popular commentary from books, journals, magazines, broadsheets, pamphlets, diaries, and newspapers.

Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation (Posted: 2/7/08) Email Us Comments

Contains articles on what is currently useful or is likely to be useful in future medicine. The articles answer the question, "What are the branches of medicine and how does technology assist each of them?" Articles focus on the practice of medicine that is assisted by devices, rather than including, for example, the use of drugs to treat diseases.

Mint Global and Orbis (Posted: 2/5/08) Email Us Comments

Bureau Van Dijk's Orbis database is a specialized business database that contains detailed company financial data, original filings. ownership and subsidiary information, Datamonitor industry profiles, business intelligence and M&A deal data on the top 5 million public and hard-to-find private companies in the world. Mint Global is the user-friendly version of the Orbis database.

IQOM (Posted: 1/22/07) Email Us Comments

Inteligencia Comercial is an authoritative source of information in Spanish on current Mexican business conditions, providing precise and on-time monitoring of local and international trade as well as an archive of in-depth commerical analysis.

Accounting Research Manager (ARM) (Posted: 1/22/08) Email Us Comments

Provides full text materials and interpretation on accounting, auditing, govermental, internal controls and SEC information. Covers GAAP, GAAS and SEC rules.

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Plus (Posted: 1/10/08) Email Us Comments

Contains the International Index to Film Periodicals (1972 to the present), the International Index to Television Periodicals (1979 to the present), the List of Periodicals Indexed, the Treasures from the Film Archives, the Bibliography of FIAF Members Publications, and the International Directory of Film and TV Documentation Collections. Also included is searchable full text to many FIAF journals.

Chinamaxx (Posted: 12/20/07) Email Us Comments

Chinamaxx houses the world's largest and most complete database on Chinese publications. It has a collection of 710,000 titles of Chinese literature published since 1949. Classified using the CLC (Chinese Library Classification) system, it includes 22 main classes and 52 sub-classes covering all academic disciplines. The content aims at enhancing academic studies on Chinese Social sciences and facilitating research project and paper writing.


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Resources on Trial

Products in this section are being evaluated for possible addition to the ASU Libraries' collection of electronic resources.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts (Posted:2/21/08) Email Us Comments

contains summaries of over 189,000 U.S. and international publications on topics that include criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse. Includes federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, audiovisual presentations, and unpublished research. Database content covers dates from 1970 to present.

Social Theory (Posted:1/7/08) Email Us Comments

Social Theory provides comprehensive coverage of major social thinkers together with seminal texts from lesser writers. Covers the areas of politics, economics, history, psychology, anthropology, religion, and literature. Both the original works and translations are included. This trial is available until 3/8/2008.

CHANT (Posted:3/6/07) Email Us Comments

(CHinese ANcient Texts) a comprehensive database of ancient Chinese texts up to 600AD. Login to the trial using the userid asulib and password asulibpw. After login please choose download and follow the instructions to download fonts for displaying ancient Chinese characters for each database. CHANT comprises 5 full-text databases:
1. Oracular Inscriptions on Tortoise Shells and Bones
2. Bronze Inscriptions
3. Excavated Wood/Bamboo and Silk Scripts
4. Traditional Chinese Texts of Wei Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties (220-589 A.D.)
5. The Entire Body of Extant Han and Pre-Han (pre-220 A.D.) Traditional Chinese Texts


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