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 trialsThe 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 Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth CenturyAccess information:Access on and off campus.Description:The Archives of Latin American and Caribbean History, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century offer a range of content for the region, providing opportunities for research into issues and events in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean history, as well as historical perspective back to the colonial period. Coverage extends from the 15th to 20th century, providing information about the indigenous peoples of the region, the Conquest (la Conquista), colonial rule, religion, struggles for independence, and political, economic, and social progress and issues in newly independent nations.”Trial ends:28/07/2025 Click here to provide trial feedback British Literary Manuscripts OnlineAccess information:Access on and off campus.Description:British Literary Manuscripts Online presents facsimile images of literary manuscripts, including letters and diaries, drafts of poems, plays, novels, and other literary works, and similar materials for research and teaching. The manuscripts range from medieval texts to the works of Oscar Wilde, and users can browse the manuscripts individually or search the metadata for author names, titles, manuscript numbers or notes.British Literary Manuscripts Online is divided into two parts. Part One: c1660-1900 contains works of major literary figures from the Restoration through the Victorian era: Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, William Morris, and Oscar Wilde, among others. Part Two: Medieval and Renaissance presents a range of literary manuscripts — letters, poems, stories, plays, chronicles, religious writings, and other materials — from roughly 1120 to 1660Trial ends:28/07/2025 Click here to provide trial feedback State Papers Online: Part IV: The Stuarts and Commonwealth, James I - Anne I, 1603-1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland and Registers of the Privy CouncilAccess information:Access on and off-campusDescription:State Papers Online, 1509-1714 ('SPO') offers a completely new working environment to researchers, teachers and students of Early Modern Britain. Whether used for original research, for teaching, or for student project work, State Papers Online offers original historical materials across the widest range of government concern, from high level international politics and diplomacy to the charges against a steward for poisoning a dozen or more people. The correspondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts from ambassadors, civil servants and provincial administrators present a full picture of Tudor and Stuart Britain. Part IV includes State Papers Foreign, Ireland and Registers of the Privy Council.NB: The Library has purchased access to three modules of SPO - "Part II: The Tudors, 1509-1603", "Part III : The Stuarts: James I to Anne, 1603-1714", and "The Stuart and the Cumberland Papers" - which can be found on the S databases page.Trial ends:28/07/2025 Click here to provide trial feedback Sunday Times Historical Archive (1822-2021)Access information:Access on and off campusDescription:Easily explore two centuries of news, investigative reporting, and commentary from Britain's premier Sunday publication. The Sunday Times is famous for many of its stories, including Kim Philby's outing as a Soviet spy, the thalidomide investigation, and the publishing of Adolph Hitler's diaries. The Sunday Times Historical Archive 1822-2021 brings together, for the first time, the complete run of the newspaper and its supplements, in one cross-searchable and browseable platform.Trial ends:28/07/2025 Click here to provide trial feedback Global NewsstreamAccess information:Access on and off campusDescription:GLOBAL NEWSSTREAM is a major source for recent news from around the world offering more than 2,000 full-text sources across diverse media formats including newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, and websites. Current news combined with an extensive archive reaching back to the 1980s provides one of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. Current national and regional news content is updated daily, and deep archives provide 40+ years of coverage. Major North American daily newspapers include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Globe and Mail, Toronto Star and leading European and international newspaper titles include Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine, ABC (Madrid), The Times of India and The Australian. Further content details – incl. PDF flyer/overview and downloadable title list - are here: https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/globalnewsstream Trial ends:31st August 2025Click here to provide trial feedback Radical Irish Newspaper ArchivesAccess information:Access on and off campus.The above link lands on the home page of Irish Newspaper Archives - to access Radical Irish Newspaper Archives, click "RADICAL ARCHIVE" in the top right hand corner of the screen.Description:The RNA archive is a special collection of Radical and Political journals from the early 20th century. The Radical archive is a new product that will see the release for the very first time of this important collection of 117 newspapers, journals, pamphlets, and bulletins. The archive will allow historians from across the World to research the political, social, and industrial unrest of the Irish nation through some of our country's most revolutionary publications. Trial Ends:31/08/2025. Click here to provide trial feedback Expired trialsExpired trials are listed on a separate webpage. Privacy statementInformation about you: how we use it and with whom we share itThe 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 queriesIf you have any questions about this privacy statement, please contact Elize Rowan, Content Acquisition & Access Manager [Elize.Rowan@ed.ac.uk] Need any help?If you have any problems accessing online services, then please: HTML Contact the IS Helpline . This article was published on 2024-08-21
