Dennis Smith, who coordinates Collection Development for the University Library System, has announced that ULS currently has trials for 3 databases.
1. Black Thought and Culture from Alexander Street Press, is a database of the published works of many historically important black leaders. Subjects indexed include segregation, poverty, education, Jim Crow laws, the Scottsboro and Herndon trials, miscegenation, civil rights, and many more. The trial is by IP address (you can access from any Pitt computer and remotely via http://sslvpn.pitt.edu) until June 21.
2. Harper's Digital Archive contains pdf images of Harper's magazine since 1850. Harper's has a tradition of fine writing, and the archive includes articles by Mark Twain, Woodrow Wilson, and Winston Churchill, to name a few. Access is by login and available until June 30.
username: nerl
password: nerl2007
3. North American Congress on Latin America digital archive contains the bimonthly magazine published since 1966. NACLA has information on U.S. - Latin American relations and on a range of political, social and economic issues. NACLA "examines the interrelationships between multiple forms of social exclusion - class, race, gender, ethnicity and sexuality-that are at the heart of the ongoing militarism, human rights violations, environmental destruction and poverty that plague the region." Access is by login and is available until June 30.
username: nerl
password: nerl2007
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