eTrials - Trials & Test of New eResources

The Library offers trials of new databases to allow faculty, students and staff the opportunity to examine their suitability. Feedback from trials is used to inform possible purchase decisions. Depending on the feedback obtained, and the cost involved, some of these databases and electronic resources may be added to the UMass Dartmouth Library collection. Quoted descriptions are taken from vendors' descriptions made available through the product or on the vendor's web site.

Send your thoughts to Susan Raidy-Klein, Collection Development and Acquisitions Librarian. All feedback received will be reviewed by library's Collection Development committee.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)

a comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments. Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. Instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior and Education are included. Records contained in HaPI provide information on questionnaires, interview schedules, vignettes/scenarios, coding schemes, rating and other scales, checklists, indexes, tests, projective techniques, and more.

Trial available through May 4, 2012

Nursing Reference Center (NRC)

an evidence-based, point-of-care resource for nurses available from the provider of CINAHL. NRC features clinically organized quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, continuing education modules, point-of-care drug information, patient education, best practice guidelines, detailed medical illustrations, the latest medical news, legal cases, research instruments, unique point-of-care reference books, and more.

Quick Lessons are clinically-organized nursing overviews on diseases and conditions and are designed to map the nursing workflow. Evidence-Based Care Sheets provide evidence-based summaries on key topics. Hundreds of nursing skills & procedures provide access to clinical papers detailing the necessary steps to achieve proficiency in a specific nursing task or defining key considerations to providing culturally competent care.

Trial available through May 4, 2012

Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO)

Oxford Bibliographies Online is a research tool for the social sciences and humanities. A scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information by directing them to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set they need for their research. Each entry is a selective guide to the key literature on a topic and receives multiple peer-reviews as well as Editorial Board approval. All citations are linked through to the Carney Library collection via OpenURL, full-text via DOIs, or to the web via links to OCLC, WorldCat, and Google Books, allowing users to locate quickly full-text content directly from OBO.

Trial available through March 31, 2012

ProQuest History Vault (ProQuest)

ProQuest History Vault is created from primary source materials from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections. It currently (2012) includes three modules:

  • The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century, Federal Government Records
  • The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1
  • The Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960–1975