Research Guides: Collection Development and Resource Feedback: Current E-Resource Trials

Trials Process

Syracuse University Libraries welcome feedback about the following resources that are available to trial during November 2022. Trial access is on campus only, unless otherwise noted. Faculty, staff, and student feedback is an important part of our evaluation process! Let us know what you think using the feedback form at the bottom of this page. Please note that we are exploring these resources for future consideration and that there is no guarantee that we will be able to add them to the collection.

Further questions? Want to request a resource trial for the future? Contact SU Libraries Collection Development Librarians at colls@syr.edu or fill out the Suggest a Title form. We'll be glad to hear from you!

Black Studies Digital Primary Source Collections

Historical Black Newspapers (ProQuest)
both on and off-campus access
Access individual titles via the link on the right side of homepage under Trial - Limited time only. Full page image scans of several United States newspaper titles, including Atlanta Daily World 1931-2010, Chicago Defender 1910-2010, Cleveland Call and Post 1934-2010, Baltimore Afro-American 1893-2010, LA Sentinel, 2006-2010, Louisville Defender 1951-2010, Michigan Chronicle 1939-2010, New York Amsterdam News, 1922-2010, Norfolk Journal & Guide, 2004-2010, Philadelphia Tribune, 2002-2010, Pittsburgh Courier 1911-2010
African American Newspapers in the South, 1870-1926
both on and off-campus access
Complete runs of select newspapers from the District of Columbia, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and West Virginia: The Advocate, 1907 – 1912; Athens Republique, 1921 – 1926; The Banner-Enterprise, 1883 – 1884; The Bee, 1882 – 1884; The Black Dispatch, 1917 – 1922; The Educator, 1874 – 1875; The Langston City Herald, 1892 – 1900; The Louisianian, 1870 – 1871
The Muskogee Cimeter, 1904 – 1920; The Nashville Globe, 1907 – 1918; The National Forum, 1910; Pioneer Press, 1911 – 1917; The Republican, 1873 – 1875; Semi-Weekly Louisianian, 1871 – 1872; The Tulsa Star, 1913 –1921; Western World, 1903 – 1904
African American Historical Serials Collection
both on and off-campus access
Newspapers, magazines, reports, and annuals from various publishers, churches, and social service agencies, documenting the history of African American religious life and culture between 1829 and 1922.
Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century
both on and off-campus access
Federal government records, organizational records, and personal papers related to critical people and events in African American history. Includes
• Federal Government Records (Black Freedom 1)
• Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1 (Black Freedom 2)
• Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 2 (Black Freedom 3)
• Federal Government Records, Supplement (Black Freedom 4)
African American Police League Papers
both on and off-campus access
This module documents how African American policemen in Chicago, beginning in 1968 attempted to fight against discrimination and police brutality by the Chicago Police Department and to improve relations between African Americans and the police department. Historical document of Afro-American Patrolmen's League (AAPL; renamed the Afro-American Police League in 1979 and later, the African American Police League) from 1961 to 1988
NAACP Papers
both on and off-campus access
Digitized archives of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files (NAACP 1)
• The NAACP’s Major Campaigns: Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces (NAACP 2)
• The NAACP’s Major Campaigns: Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses (NAACP 3)
• The NAACP’s Major Campaigns: Legal Department Files (NAACP 4)
• Special Subjects (NAACP 5)
• Branch Department, Branch Files, and Youth Department Files (NAACP 6)

Databases and Ebook Collections

Anatomy.TV (two new modules)
both on and off-campus access
Please evaluate each model separately. Access individual modules via the tabs on the left side of the resource home page
Disease & Conditions
Provide expertly written, peer reviewed clinical content to learn anatomy from a clinical perspective. Help to understand the relationship between anatomy and clinical presentation, with videos, slides and written content.
Real-Time Functional Anatomy and Therapy
A rebuilt real-time, full 360 control of animation in movement. Explore anatomy and study animated movement from any angle. Visualize core anatomical movements, testing positions and gross motor movements such as running. Layer the anatomy while in motion, from superficial musculature right down to the ligaments.
APA Psyc Info (trialing ProQuest Platform)
both on and off-campus access
Indexing and abstracting for journals, books and book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, and more. Subject coverage includes Applied psychology, Communication systems, Developmental psychology, Personality, Lifespan, and Psychological and physical disorders.
NOTE: The Libraries currently subscribe to PsycInfo on the EBSCO platform. This trial on the ProQuest platform is to compare the interfaces. Please focus comments on those aspects.
APA Psyc Therapy Videos (APA Platform)
both on and off-campus access
Unscripted streaming demonstration videos of authentic therapy sessions, produced by the American Psychological Association. For use in teaching and learning psychotherapy techniques.
APA Psyc Therapy Videos (EBSCO Platform)
both on and off-campus access
Search on the EBSCO platform alongside other EBSCO content, then click on a video's DOI to connect to videos hosted on the APA page.
ACCESS ENDS NOVEMBER 27
BAR Digital Collection
on-campus only
Books, edited collections of papers, excavation and site reports, and conference proceedings in the field of archaeology.
Border and Migration Online
both on and off-campus access
Text, video, and images selected by an international board of scholar around themes such as Border Identities, Border Enforcement and Control, Border Disputes, Human Trafficking, Sea Migration, Undocumented and Unauthorized Migration, and Global Governance of Migration.
Fashion Snoops
on-campus only
A consumer insight & trend forecasting platform focuses on fashion, media marketing, and other consumer facing industries
See HERE for the recorded trial onboarding video.
Also use the following links to register for Color Week:
Must-Have Colors FW 24/25
SPRING | SUMMER 24 COLOR SHIFTS
SPRING | SUMMER 24 SENTIMENT COLORS
SPRING | SUMMER 24: TOP 10 COLORS BY MARKET
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
both on and off-campus access
Citations for journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. Covers anthropology, economics, political science and sociology.
Newspapers.com
Both on- and off-campus access
Full-text page image access to 4,000+ historical newspapers, dating from the early 1700s into the 2000s.
O'Reilly Higher Education Ebooks (formerly Safari Ebooks)
To access the trial, please click "Institution not listed?" link, then use your syr.edu email.
Ebooks and streaming video on topics ranging from programming to IT networking to project management to graphic design to business strategy. The content includes case studies, certification preparation materials, practice exercises, training videos, and much more.
Policy Commons: North American City Reports
both on and off-campus access
The module of Policy Commons preserves and includes the full text of surveys, budgets, statistical records, case studies, planning documents, training manuals, policy guidelines, reports, and news from the five hundred largest cities in North America. It also includes select materials from hundreds of related agencies and non-governmental organizations. North American City Reports includes and expands on the well-known Index to Current Urban Documents (ICUD). With more than 150,000 documents, it provides a new and typically unmined source for observing policy in action.
South Asia Archive
on-campus only
Collection of 4.5 million pages of documents from across the Indian subcontinent from 1700 to 1953, originally collected by the South Asian Research Foundation (SARF). It includes books, journals and documents from the region, covering India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. Documents included in the archive are written in English, Bengali, Sanskrit, and more.
urbanNext
on-campus only
Books and journals from the publisher Actar Publishing focusing on architecture and urban design. Topics include city design, energy and sustainability, technology, territory and mobility, and economics.
Trial available 10/31-11/30

Research Assessment and Funding

SciVal
Please create an Elsevier account and use that to sign into this resource.
Research performance assessment tool that provides analysis of publication and citation data included in Scopus. It provides analysis of the performance of your own research, or at the university, college, school or research group level, as well as individual researchers and institutions worldwide. SciVal allows you to visualize research performance, benchmark against peers using a number of metrics, review co-author networks and identify potential collaborative partnerships.

Two live demonstrations of SciVial are scheduled to introduce potential users to this resource:

Thursday, November 17th, 2:30pm to 4:00pm, Register for the zoom webinar
Monday, November 21st, 11:00am to 12:30pm, Register for the zoom webinar

Or explore the following:

Funding Institutional
login with NETID and password
This searchable database contains data on funding opportunities, funders, and awarded grants, drawn from a wide range of governmental and private sources.
Use it to:
• Search for funding opportunities
• Find new sources of external grant income
• Identify potential collaborators and find investigators that are securing grants in their field of interest
• Survey funding trends
• Set-up alerts to be notified automatically of new funding opportunities

Text Analysis

Constellate
Please create a JSTOR account and use that login to sign into this resource.
Text and data analytics service from JSTOR and Portico, supports learning and performing text analysis, building datasets, and sharing analytics course materials. The platform provides value to users in three core areas -- they can teach and learn text analytics, build datasets from across multiple content sources, and visualize and analyze their datasets.

More information on using this resource is available from JSTOR.

User quickstart
Details about the content offered in Constellate
Python Basics, three session class starting Monday, November 14
Intermediate Python 4 (Object Oriented Python), Monday, November 21
Exploring Text Analysis for Research (video)
What can you do with word counts? (video)
A description of the different types of datasets you can create in Constellate
Instructions on how to use our filters and advanced search

Feedback Form

Please submit feedback for each resource you explore.