Headlines from the DBInfo Blog
The DBInfo Blog contains news and events about electronic resources at UML Libraries.SciFinder Scholar allows unlimited usage
The UML subscription to Scifinder Scholar from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) is now available for unlimited simultaneous user logins for all UML students, faculty, and staff. Prior to this upgrade to CAS’s new Academic Unlimited Access Program, simultaneous usage was restricted to five users at any one time. Now any number of users can access the [...]
Films on Demand now offering Interactive Transcripts
Films on Demand, the provider of the UML Library’s largest database collection of streaming videos, now provides new interactive transcripts for thousands of their videos. Interactive transcripts provide: live video/transcript syncing: read the full text of the video and follow along as the video plays printing: print the full transcript option click-to-seek navigation: click on [...]
Trial access to March of Time Newsreels
Alexander St. Press is providing trial access to UMass Lowell for its March of Time newsreel collection from April 4 to June 2, 2012. The March of Time newsreel collection contains the full run of the series, 415 videos in total, digitally remastered by HBO Archives, with searchable transcripts.These films, produced from 1935 to 1967 [...]
Trial access to University Press Scholarship Online from Oxford Press
Oxford University Press is providing free trial access to its University Press Scholarship online database of over 8,000 reference books that cover 21 academic subject areas in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Medicine, Law, and more. The trial is available from April 1 until April 26, 2012. University Press Scholarship Online, launched in September 2011, brings [...]
Springer Reference Trial through June 30, 2012
Springer Media is providing UMass Lowell with trial access to their Springer Reference web site through the month of June, 2012. SpringerReference.com consists of over 146 peer-reviewed large Encyclopedias, Handbooks, Dictionaries, Bibliographies and Data collections that focus primarily on the sciences but also covers many other subject areas: Biomedical and Life Sciences Business and Economics [...]