Currently, the libraries have a trial subscription to LearningExpress Library online learning Platform through the end of April, 2009. LearningExpress Library features over 800 interactive courses, practice tests and e-books related to job skills improvement, career licensing/certification test preparation, college admissions test preparation and basic skills improvement. Learning express includes everything from Math, Reading and Writing Skills tests to Graduate School Entrance Exam Preparation (GMAT, GRE, LSAT, MCAT). There is also a whole suite of tutorials regarding basic computer skills learning programs which you can read about more here.

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UWF Libraries is engaging in a trial of NewsBank’s Access World News Research Collection through the end of this semester.

According to the NewsBank website:

The most comprehensive collection of full-text newspapers globally, Access World News provides extensive coverage at any level—local, state, regional, national and international. This fully searchable Web-based resource features the vast majority of U.S. newspapers by circulation, along with almost one thousand hard-to-find local and regional titles, the majority of which are unavailable elsewhere. Additionally, Access World News offers searchable news video clips and over a thousand international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.

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The UWF Libraries has three new online research databases: Index Islamicus, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Full Text, and Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies.

Dissertations & Theses: Full Text With more than 2.4 million entries, the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. UMI offers over 2 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats.

More than 930,000 are available in PDF format for immediate free download, and an average of 2,000 new PDFs are added to the database each week. Coverage: 1637 – Current
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Oxford Islamic Studies Online offers unrivaled online access to the history and culture of Islam and provides full-text access to great Oxford reference and scholarly works, including The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam,

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• The West Florida Photohistory database contains thousands of photographs of the Bell Collection. Henry Bell operated a photograph studio in Pensacola 1911-1949, and these images are of Pensacola individuals, families, weddings, theatre actors, visitors to the area, politicians, and others. We hope to expand this project to include other images from the thousands of area photographs (lumbering, street scenes, historic buildings, fires, etc.) in Special Collections, but these are not yet online. The West Florida Photohistory Project is part of the PALMM (Publication of Archives, Libraries, and Museum Materials), a cooperative project of Florida’s state universities.

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MetaLib allows users to access databases, library catalogs, journal collections, and other information resources. These resources may be searched individually through the database’s native interface or, in many cases, searched simultaneously in groups.

Features

Find Database – The Metalib database list includes 287 resources that may be searched individually in each database’s native interface. Databases may be identified alphabetically by title, by words contained in the title, or by category.

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• ProQuest Civil War Era database provides a unique combination of newspapers and pamphlet collections covering the period of American history from 1840-1865. Through this combination of resources, not only will researchers and students be able to conduct primary research on the major events of the war, but they will also be able to trace the circumstances that led to the war during the twenty years prior to 1861. The database can be accessed through November 21st, using the password “uwfcivil.”

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• Corporate Affiliations from Lexis-Nexis-This database provides current, accurate corporate linkage information and company profiles on nearly 200,000 of the most prominent global public and private parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries and divisions—down to the seventh level of corporate linkage. Not only does Corporate Affiliations publish corporate family trees, the database also contains over 700,000 corporate contacts, 110,000 board members, 150,000 brand names and 140,000 competitors.

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• ACLS Humanities E-Book-Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of over 1500 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 90 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers.

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