E-Resources trials

The Library regularly arranges trials to new resources. Publishers are usually willing to provide trial access to allow us to use and evaluate a resource before making a decision about purchase.

Current trials

The services listed below are currently available for a trial period. They are listed by trial closing date.  Your feedback is important and helps to inform decisions about future subscriptions.

Please tell us what you think of the current trials using the feedback form

 

Pidgeon Digital

Access information:Access on and off campus. 
Description:Listen to the greatest minds in modern architecture. Access hundreds of illustrated talks and interviews with major twentieth century architects within this online audiovisual collection. Founded by Monica Pidgeon, editor of influential radical magazine Architectural Design. Fully searchable illustrated talks and transcripts. Notable speakers include 17 Pritzker Prize winners and 15 RIBA Royal Gold Medal winners.
Trial ends:07/12/2025.
 

Click here to provide trial feedback

 

 

CAS BioFinder via SciFinder

Access information:Access on and off campus. Please sign in using your SciFinder credentials. If you have not yet registered for SciFinder, please follow the instructions here: How to register for SciFinder
Description:

CAS BioFinder is designed to support researchers in biology, biochemistry, and related disciplines with intuitive access to the biology and chemistry data, visualizations, and predictive models they need to understand diseases, explore potential treatment targets, and pursue drug candidates. 

AI-driven models predict the bioactivity of unknown ligands, matched molecular pairs analysis visualizations, 3D graphs of nearby chemical spaces, and quick summaries of lengthy biomarker data tables are embedded into a foundation of interconnected data to provide reliable results.

Trial ends:31/12/2025
 Click here to provide trial feedback

Expired trials

Expired trials are listed on a separate webpage. 

 

 

Privacy statement

Information about you: how we use it and with whom we share it

The information you provide will be used by the Library to support purchase decisions on trialled e-resources.

We will use the supplied information to contact you should there be any queries or problems with eg access issues, platform feedback.

We will use your e-mail address to alert you if the trial has resulted in a purchase/subscription.

We are using information about you because your feedback supports business cases for new e-resources and is part of our contractual obligation.

Further queries

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, please contact Elize Rowan, Content Acquisition & Access Manager [Elize.Rowan@ed.ac.uk]

 
 
 

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