Thematic areas include: family and race, material culture, language and culture, kinesthetics, body language, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, caste systems and slavery, male and female roles, kinship and families, political organization, conflict and conflict resolution, religion and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, marriage, gender, and family roles.

Of special interest will be the video content in Ethnographic video online and the range of features that can be used with the video for teaching and research including searchable, synchronized transcripts, and the ability to create synchronized annotations and multi-media presentations.

To access the trial visit the URL: http://anthtrial.alexanderstreet.com

Currently the trial is only available on campus.  We expect the trial  databases to be available off campus via Shibboleth sign-on very shortly.  To reach the Shibboleth login pages first perform a search in the search box at the top right of the database home page.

Presently off campus access is not available via the licensor, Taylor & Francis.  We are working with T&F on enabling off campus access in the near future.

To access the Handbook on campus visit the link on the eresources@cambridge A-Z list at http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/fulllist.php?search_term=H.

Alternatively go directly to the resource (within the Cam domain only) via the URL: http://www.hbcpnetbase.com/.

Samuel Magal, Owner and Chief Photographer, is a trained archaeologist specializing in Classical and Marine archaeology. Since 1999, he has photographed hundreds of sites and museums throughout the Mediterranean.

View the collection: http://library.artstor.org/library/collection/sitesandphotos

An ARTstor training event in the Research Skills Programme will be given on 9 March, 2012 at 10:00-11:30 am in the Morison Room, Cambridge University Library.  To book a place please visit: http://training.cam.ac.uk/cul/event/350402

The American Civil War Research Database

http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/cwdb/

The American Civil War : Letters and Diaries

http://solomon.cwld.alexanderstreet.com/

The American Civil War : Photographs, Posters, and Ephemera

http://cpho.alexanderstreet.com/

Feedback on the trial should be sent to Libby Tilley by email (eat21@cam.ac.uk)

The Congressional Record is the public account of all legislative debate in the United States Congress and as such is a unique source of American public documentation. It contains a substantially verbatim account of all discussion and decisions of Congress on nearly all the major and minor policies and concerns of the day and is a key primary source in the study of American social, political, economic, and foreign policies. The Record also contains inserted materials, communications from the president and the executive branch agencies, memorials, petitions, and information and materials on legislation being introduced or passed. The Record and its predecessors – the Annals of Congress, the Register of Debates and the congressional Globe – span debate for over 200 years in 2,000 volumes and 2,750,000 pages.

The digitized version makes research using the Congressional Record dramatically easier than consultation of the bound volumes, overcoming their size and complexity, indexing variability and pagination variations.

The Congressional Record is available on and off campus via the eresources A-Z listing or via the URL below:

http://ezproxy.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://www.lexisnexis.com/congcomp

EUScreen is the result of a collaboration between 36 partners across Europe and provides over 14,000 items of archived TV footage from 17 European countries. The content dates from the 1920s to the present day and includes rare footage and commentary on many key events in history.

EUScreen represents a particularly valuable resource for anyone working in Social History or Media Studies and may also be of use to those learning or teaching foreign languages.

The archive can be searched by genre, topic, date, language, country of production or broadcaster. By signing up for a free My EUScreen login users can bookmark footage and add comments.

More content will be added later in 2012 bring the content to around 30,000 items. The resource is freely available on the EUScreen portal here http://www.euscreen.eu and from the Eresources Database A-Z list

Blake is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to William Blake (1757-1827), the British poet, artist and engraver, and his circle. The journal publishes articles, notes and book reviews, as well as two annual features: a review of sales of original works by Blake and his followers and a checklist of publications on Blake.

Online access is available to digitalized issues from 2011 to the present and bonus content including articles, bibliographies and indices from a number of back issues is also made available.

The journal can be accessed from the website http://blake.lib.rochester.edu/blakeojs/index.php/blake on- and off-campus using a Raven log-in and from the ejournals@cambridge A-Z list.

The papers are fully cross-searchable with the other newspapers on the ProQuest Historical Newspapers platform, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Times of India. As well as allowing browsing of discrete issues, there are multiple ways to search and across different content types (articles; cartoons, advertisements etc.).

Please use the links on the eresources@cambridge A-Z list or the ejournals@cambridge A-Z gateway to access The Guardian and The Observer on and off campus.

Guardian & Observer on / off campus is available at:

http://ezproxy.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/hnpguardianobserver?accountid=9851

Downloading to popular e-readers is supported, including Sony ereaders, the Barnes & Noble Nook, iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. You can keep a downloaded ebook for 3 days, after that period it will automatically disappear from your PC or mobile device. You cannot return a downloaded title early, it will remain checked out to you for 3 days.

Each downloadable ebook can be downloaded by two people simultaneously, the online copy will remain available for online searching and reading as usual.  When all available copies of an ebook are checked out you can place a hold on that title, you will then be emailed when that ebook becomes available for download.

Detailed onscreen help from MyiLibrary is available from the MyiLibrary Download Support pages.

Briefly, here’s how it works:

• Create a personal account on MyiLibrary and login.

• Search for titles of interest, those that are available for downloading give you the option to “add to bookshelf”, click on this.

• Under My Account, select Bookshelf. Your bookshelf enables you to review and download titles you have selected.

• The selected title will be displayed, and you will see that you have 48 hours in which you can checkout and download it. If after 48 hours you haven’t checked out and downloaded the title it will be automatically removed from your bookshelf. If you decide not to checkout the title, you click on remove to return it to circulation.

• Clicking on download will download it to your PC. If you have Adobe Digital Editions loaded on your PC you will be given the option to open and read it with that program. If not you will be prompted to choose a location where you would like the file to be saved. You can install Adobe Digital Editions from http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/

Documents to guide you when downloading to a Nook and an iPad can be found under MyiLibrary on the ebooks@cambridge Tips and Instructions page. Guidance for downloading to Sony ereaders will also be posted here when available. You can also find a spreadsheet listing those titles which are currently available for downloading. The numbers of downloadable titles on MyiLibrary will increase over time as more publishers sign up to this service.

Please let the ebooks@cambridge team at the UL know what you think of this new service, we are very keen to hear comments and feedback in order that we may make improvements where possible. Please email Jayne Kelly or Rhiannon Taylor at ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk.

Titles include those such as Rang & Dale’s Pharmacology (7th edition), Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine, and Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease. Medical students, particularly those on placement, may find these e-textbooks of considerable interest.

Access to the trial is available both on- and off-campus from the following link: http://linux02.lib.cam.ac.uk:2048/login?url=https://www.elsevier-etextbooks.com/bookshelf and from the link on the ebooks@cambridge collections web page. From off-campus users will need to use their Raven password.

The Bookshelf feature displays those titles available to read and search in full-text, and users can print from those texts. Users can also register individually on the platform to create a saved space in which notes, bookmarks and highlights can be added.

Trial access is available from Monday 23rd January 2012 to 15 March 2012.

Jayne Kelly and Rhiannon Taylor in the ebooks@cambridge team at the UL would welcome comments on this trial. Please send your feedback to ebooks@lib.cam.ac.uk