{"id":1421,"date":"2008-05-13T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T21:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.oregonstate.edu\/enews\/2008\/05\/13\/database-trial-acls-humanities-ebook-collection\/"},"modified":"2019-01-08T01:21:03","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T01:21:03","slug":"database-trial-acls-humanities-ebook-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/2008\/05\/13\/database-trial-acls-humanities-ebook-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Database Trial: ACLS Humanities Ebook Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to let you know that the OSU Libraries are conducting a trial of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.HumanitiesEBook.org\">ACLS Humanities E-Book<\/a>.  The trial will run through <strong>June 30, 2008<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This electronic resource includes 1700 full-text, cross-searchable books in the humanities selected  for their continuing importance to students and scholars.  In summer 2008, and every year thereafter,  HEB will be adding 500 titles to the collection.<\/p>\n<p>The project includes both in-print and out-of print books and adds 500 titles a year. It is a collaboration of the American Council of Learned Societies, various constituent members of the ACLS and nearly 95 publishers.<\/p>\n<p>Areas include: Comparative\/World, Africa, America, Asia, Latin America, Europe (Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern), the Middle East, Byzantium and  the Mediterranean, and  Australasia\/Oceania, plus Women&#8217;s studies, of the Native Peoples of the Americas, and history of Economics, Science and Technology, Archaeology, Art History, Folklore, Religion, Musicology, and Political Science.<\/p>\n<p>Lists of titles can be found online at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanitiesebook.org\/titlelist.html\">http:\/\/www.humanitiesebook.org\/titlelist.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This site allows for simultaneous multi-user access; individual books can be added to e-reserve; and you can link from a syllabus to books\/chapters. If we subscribe, a cataloging record for each book in the collection will appear in our catalog with a link to the online text.<\/p>\n<p>To try the site, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.HumanitiesEBook.org\">http:\/\/www.HumanitiesEBook.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although searching and browsing are always unrestricted, to access the full text you will need to use a login and password. Please contact your <a href=\"http:\/\/osulibrary.oregonstate.edu\/staff\/sublist.html\">Subject Librarian&lt;\/a for the login and password information.<\/p>\n<p>Please let us know what you think of the site and whether you would like us to subscribe. Comments can be submitted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/osulibrary.orst.edu\/collection_development\/electronicresources\/evalpub.htm\">Database Trial Evaluation Form<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to let you know that the OSU Libraries are conducting a trial of ACLS Humanities E-Book. The trial will run through June 30, 2008. 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In summer 2008, and every year thereafter, HEB&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/2008\/05\/13\/database-trial-acls-humanities-ebook-collection\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153788,1303471],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-books","category-trials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9677,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/9677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/libraryenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}