World Book Public Library Trial

World Book Public Library edition is "designed to meet the diverse needs of public library patrons of all ages. Go to http://www.worldbookonline.com/?uid=wbpl&pwd=suffolk The trial is available until November 2. The coordinated order will go out the week of October 19th.

Gale Trials

http://access.gale.com/suffolkcls/

This trial contains the latest Gale Electronic resources with brief descriptions.

Please be aware that Career Transitions prompts you for a user name and password. Each patron can make up their own so they can go back in and use it again and pull up their unique information. The remainder of the products are IP authenticated and do not require a username and password.

Footnote.com

Ebsco has a arranged a trial for Footnote.com. Footnote is a social networking genealogy site that has drawn a lot of interest from Suffolk libraries. It has a slew of primary source historical documents and genealogy information. All libraries are IP authenticated, so you can enter the site by going to http://www.footnote.com.

Vault Online Career Library

Library Journal named this product one of the best of Reference in 2007.

A well-organized powerhouse of a file, Vault Online Career Library brings together an astonishing amount of career information in one place. ( Library Journal, 5/15/2007)

Click here to try this product out.

Career Cruising

Career Cruising offers users in-depth profiles of hundreds of different occupations and comprehensive post-secondary information. With multiple search options and direct links between our career and education databases, users can quickly and easily access material they are looking for.

http://www.careercruising.com
Username is Suffolk
Password is lib

Global Issues in Context

http://trials.gale.com/public/go/?key=8130_123522.

No login required.

Global Issues in Context is for people who want to know what’s going on in the world today and why.

► It is a new e-resource that offers global news and perspectives on issues and events of international importance and provides background information on them, placing them in context.
► It ties together a variety of sources from across the globe---news, perspectives, video, reference, country information, primary source documents, statistics---to present a rich analysis of critical issues, whether social, political, military, economic, science or health related, environmental, or cultural.
► It provides researchers with a framework to better understand 21st-century issues, helping them think critically about global connections and the interdependence of all nations.
► It gives them the knowledge and skills they need to succeed in an increasingly global marketplace and in life in the 21st century.

Summer 2009 EBSCO Trial.

EBSCO has enabled many databases for Suffolk libraries to trial over the summer. Please try them out and post your comments. Your opinions matter as we review our current subscriptions in Suffolk e-Resources and look at databases to keep, drop, or add. Please post comments and come to the forthcoming zone meetings for additional discussion.

Go to http://trial.ebscohost.com
User id is scls
Password is trial

Multilingual Health Database

To Login to the Free Trial:    
Go to:  http://trial.ebscohost.com     
User Id:        scls   
Password:       trial  

You might need to enable your browsers to support multiple foreign languages, you need to download language packs.  Here are the links for IE and Firefox:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/downloads/recommended/ime/install.mspx

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/