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

 

Global Newsstream

Access information:Access on and off campus
Description:
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:30th September 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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If you have any problems accessing online services, then please:

 

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