Database Changes at PLYMC -- Part 1

I've been updating the database page on the library's website and want to invite you to take a look and (more importantly) begin using our new resources. We had a rigorous spring database preview event this year and I'd like to thank all of you who participated. Your suggestions, opinions and "votes" helped select and deselect databases for our electronic collection. In this first round of additions please note:

Global Issues in Context brings users a balanced assortment of articles, reference materials, original documents, video, audio, maps, images, statistics and more to support their quest for current, authoritative and reliable information on the nations and peoples of the world. Take the Guided Tour and use the Search Tips to learn more about this spectacular resource that will be useful to students, travelers, business persons and all who have an interest in world events.

Our subscription to Global Issues in Context comes with a year's free subscription to the History Resource Center, with its individually or cross-searchable component databases for U.S. or World History.
History Resource Center: U.S. brings together a broad collection of full-text periodicals, reference works, primary documents and scholarly analysis into a virtual library covering the most-studied events, issues and current information about U.S. history. Included are timelines and chronologies and special research guides for students and faculty. History Resource Center: World is a comprehensive collection of full-text periodicals, reference works and primary source documents covering world history topics from pre-antiquity to the present. This virtual library provides credible multicultural, global and research-based content to study world history. It is cross-searchable with History Resource Center: U.S. and like it, has a research guide for students and faculty. There is an extensive section of Help Using History Resource Center available on both databases.

I'll be reporting on more changes in upcoming blog posts, but in the meantime...Have at it!

--Diane