TRIAL: TRAC - Terrorism Research & Analysis Consoritum

UNCC Atkins Library is current running a trial for the unlimited version of TRAC - Terrorism Research and Analysis Consoritum. 

Created by The Beacham Group, LLC, Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC) is a uniquely comprehensive resource for the study of political violence of all kinds. In cooperation with a team of 2800 experts, TRAC gathers the best information for exploration of this topic by faculty, scholars, students, government and defense professionals, as well as the general public.

TRAC Resources Include:

• Core analyses of 3,800 groups that have been known to aid and abet political violence or terrorist organizations.  One of the world’s largest databases of terrorist groups, their leaders, locations, and affiliations, TRAC includes hate/racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, lone wolves such as Timothy McVeigh, groups such as al-Qaeda and government counterterrorism campaigns. Each profile includes (when known) the group’s tactics, targets, ideology, associated groups, leaders, theater of operation, links to other resources, and links to TRAC’s analyses. Images are included with the profile often feature the group’s flag or logo; its founder or leader; incidents and events associated with the group (plus the flag of the location where the event occurred; flag of the country where the group operates; and an image that visually the group’s activities. 

• Original, commissioned analyses of seminal terrorism topics. These in-depth essays cover important terrorism issues such as Gender and Terrorism, Quranic Understandings of Violent Jihad to Vulnerable Cities, and Urban Terrorism

• Profiles of vulnerable regions and cities mostly likely to attract terrorist incidents. This includes links to the Failed States Index and TRAC’s profile of threatened countries.
• Live intelligence repository: TRAC provides a publishing center for research of any length produced by its members. Plus, contributors, reporters and consortium members can post stories and have them immediately disbursed throughout the network
• Chatter control: TRAC continuously monitors important news and analysis sources and posts feeds to the site as events unfold
• Hot links that quickly navigate between concepts within articles, news feeds, and outside resources
• Access to political violence experts worldwide
• And hundreds of internet links to think tanks; government agencies; universities, community colleges and police academies offering courses in terrorism, criminal justice, and homeland security; government and private research centers.

 Please review this resource and leave any feedback in the comments section.  Per library policy this resource can only be access on campus.  The trial runs through February 22, 2015.

TRIAL: Women and Social Movements, International

Atkins library is now running a trial for Alexander Street Press’s Women and Social Movements, International.

Women and Social Movements, International uses writings of women activists to trace the history of women's social activism across the globe. Through personal letters and diaries, and the conference proceedings at which pivotal decisions were made, this online collection illuminates women's influence on the course of history.

The database provides an unparalleled survey of how women’s struggles against gendered inequalities promoted their engagement with other issues over time and across cultures. Faced with resistance from national political parties and organizations in the 19th and 20th centuries, women created international organizations where they pioneered policies that were adopted by national and international governing bodies. For example, President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points built on resolutions adopted by the Women’s Peace Conference at The Hague in 1915. (source)

You can access the trial here: http://wasi.alexanderstreet.com

The trial will end January 3, 2015.  Please leave any feedback you have in the comments section.

TRIAL: Readex Collections

We now have trials to the following Newsbank Collections:

Latin American Newspapers Series I (1805-1922) and Series II (1822-1922)

"Latin American Newspapers, Series 1 and 2, 1805-1922, offer unprecedented coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped this vital region during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and a dozen other countries, these resources provide a wide range of viewpoints from diverse Latin American cultures. Together, both series of Latin American Newspapers chronicles the evolution of Latin America over two centuries through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other items."(source)

African Newspapers, 1800 - 1922

"This groundbreaking online collection provides more than 60 searchable African newspapers published in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Featuring English- and foreign-language titles from Angola, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe, African Newspapers offers unparalleled coverage of the issues and events that shaped the continent and its peoples between 1800 and 1922."(source)

Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876

"Caribbean Newspapers, 1718-1876—the largest online collection of 18th- and 19th-century newspapers published in this region—will provide a comprehensive primary resource for studying the development of Western society and international relations within this important group of islands.  This unique resource will prove essential for researching colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and U.S. relations with the region as far back as the early 18th century." (source)

Foreign Broadcast Information Services Daily Reports, 1941-1996

"The Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Report has been the United States' principal historical record of political open source intelligence for more than half a century. The original mission of the FBIS was to monitor, record, transcribe and translate intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories. Providing a wealth of information from all countries outside of the U.S.—from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, the FBIS Daily Reports are an indispensable source for insights into decades of turbulent world history." (source)

The trials will last through the month of November. 

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TRIAL: ProQuest History Vault

We now have a trial to ProQuest history Vaults Black Freedom Struggle in the 20^th Century 1-3 and NAACP Papers Collection  1-6.

NAACP Papers Collection:  “ProQuest and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) have teamed up to  digitize the association’s archives, bringing one of the most famous records of the civil rights movement to the online world. The collection is nearly two million pages of internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country. It charts the NAACP’s work and  delivers a first-hand view into crucial issues.

Black Freedom Struggle in the 20^th Century: “This collection contains 1.3 million pages and offer all levels of researchers the opportunity to study the most well-known and also unheralded events of The Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century from the perspective of the men, women, and sometimes even children who waged one of the most inspiring social movements in American history.”

There trial can be accessed here:

https://trials.proquest.com/trials/trialSummary.action?view=subject&trialBean.token=YFCYF9O7ZTV4ZC9NLLLU

 

The trial will run until November 28th.  Please leave any feedback you have on these products into the comments section.

TRIAL: Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War

Atkins library is currently running a trial for ProQuests Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War.

Source

“Rare magazines published by service personnel of the First World War are now searchable online in Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War, providing scholars with a unique resource from which to research alternative perspectives on the conflict.

Published by every type of military and support service unit, from every involved nation, trench journals were a means of expression through which men and women engaged in all aspects of World War I could share their thoughts and experiences. By making these magazine discoverable online, Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War opens up new opportunities for research in multiple fields: literature, history, war studies, cultural studies, and gender studies.

Over 1,500 periodicals, drawn from the holdings of major libraries and research collections, including the Imperial War Museums and the British Library, make this resource the most comprehensive collection of trench journals available to scholars anywhere in one place.”(source)

You can access the trial here:  https://trials.proquest.com/trials/trialSummary.action?view=subject&trialBean.token=YFCYF9O7ZTV4ZC9NLLLU

Per Atkins Library Trial Policy, trials are only available for access on campus.  The trial will run until October 29.

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TRIALS : Alexander Street Press and Ebsco Databases

Atkins Library is currently trialing the following resources!

ASP LGBT Thought & Culture: http://search.alexanderstreet.com/gltc

“LGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting the key works and archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the 20th century and into the present day. The collection includes materials ranging from seminal texts, letters, periodicals, speeches, interviews, and ephemera covering the political evolution of gay rights to memoirs, biographies, poetry, and works of fiction that illuminate the lives of lesbian, gay, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community.”(source)

ASP Dance in Video vol. 2: http://search.alexanderstreet.com/dav2

“The second volume expands upon the foundation built in Volume I, providing 400 hours of video that showcase a new catalogue of dancers and partners including the Joffrey Ballet, John Jasperse Company, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Bavarian State Ballet, Royal Ballet of Cambodia, Kirov Ballet, and Compañía Nacional de Danza.”(source)

Ebsco Gender Studies Database:  http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=fmh

“This database combines the Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. Several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Internet are available.  Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, theses & dissertations and other sources.” (source)

Per trial policy, these resources cannot be accessed from off campus.

If you have any feedback on these trials, please feel free to post a comment.