Current Trial Databases

AP Image Database
Trial Starts:  10/13/09     Trial Ends:  11/30/09
Username: apimages15     Password: trial
AP Images is a groundbreaking research tool that gives you unlimited access to the photos, audio clips, graphics and text articles of the Associated Press. The Associated Press has observed the world for over 180 years, our content makes lectures, presentations, reports, group projects and portfolios, stimulating and inspirational.  This is currently used in the teaching and learning of economics, communication, history, political science and religious studies, art/design just to name a few

American History in Video by Alexander Street Press
Trial Starts: 10/7/09     Trial Ends: 11/15/09
Provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release includes over 1260 titles, equaling approximately 420 hours.

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