Through April 28th 2015, Ryerson has trial access to the eHRAF Archaeology and eHRAF World Cultures

eHRAF Archaeology focuses on in-depth descriptive documents of archaeological traditions from around the world. eHRAF is unique in having subject indexing at the paragraph level. This allows detailed and precise searching for concepts not easily found with keywords.

eHRAF World Culture’s cross-cultural database contains in-depth descriptive information about cultural and social life written by first-hand observers such as ethnographers.Similar to eHRAF Archaeology, this database indexes subject at the paragraph level.

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Ryerson Library currently has trial access to Psychotherapy.net through Dec 5th 2014.

Psychotherapy.net features a diverse compilation of streaming training videos in the field of counseling, psychotherapy, addiction, and more. Geared for a variety of teaching needs, it includes single-session demonstrations, multiple-session demonstrations, clinical case consultations, interview and documentary style films. Most use actual clients.

The videos cover most major modalities, including individual therapy, group therapy, couples and family therapy, child therapy, art therapy, psychodrama and therapeutic communities using a wide representation of client populations. Running searchable transcripts, downloadable instructor’s manuals, and clip making with direct sharing are available. The content is searchable by keyword, expert, and therapeutic issue.

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Ryerson has trial access to ProQuest International Datasets through Dec 10th 2014.
Aggregated datasets from national governments, international organizations, and research firms, ProQuest International Datasets is a collection of global macroeconomic and demographic statistics powered by DataMarket. Data is taken from multiple sources, enabling users to simply and immediately query and compare data and to share their findings.
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Ryerson has trial access to iPolitics through August 8th 2014.
Online and independent, iPolitics delivers up-to-the-minute non-partisan political news, information and analysis from Ottawa and across Canada. It provides in-depth coverage of politics as well as briefs about what’s making news at home and around the world.

Other features include:

• iPolitics Opinions: read the commentary and analysis in Canada
• The Editors Blog: features the site’s daily must read stories.
• Livewire feed: connects you to the top stories pulled from other sources as the news is breaking.
• Live updates of QP from journalists on the Hill.

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Ryerson Library has trial access to the Kanopy streaming video database for the month of July, 2014.

Kanopy is a streaming service that provides the platform to a host of educational video productions such as HBO, VideoFashion, Media Education Foundation, etc. The collection has over 20,000 video titles, covering a wide range of subjects. The current trial is a subset including sociology, business, hospitality, theatre , dance, literature, history and fashion.

The videos can be integrated with Blackboard courses, and accessed remotely. The majority of the videos are closed captioned and clip-making is allowed. PDA (Patron Driven Acquisition) is among the licensing options.

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Ryerson Library has trial access to the Business Expert Press Digital Libraries ebooks collection through July 4, 2014.

Business Expert Press Digital Libraries offers curriculum-based digital resources for students and entrepreneurs in business and management programs. Trial access includes content for 2010-2014.

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Ryerson Library has trial access to the Orlando database through February 9, 2014.

Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present provides entries on authors’ lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, sets of internal links, and bibliographies. Interacting with these materials creates a dynamic inquiry from
any number of perspectives into centuries of women’s writing. This database is a new kind of electronic textbase for research and discovery. As a new kind of history of women’s writing, it seeks to further the study and understanding of literature, focusing particularly on the part women have played in its development.

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Ryerson Library has trial access to the Material ConneXion database through November 22, 2013.

Material ConneXion offers a knowledge base with an eclectic collection of innovative materials and processes. The database is updated regularly and frequently with materials juried by a panel of material specialists. It is a resource for all disciplines of design development, including: Architecture, Interior Design, Packaging Design, Retail Design, Industrial Design, Fashion, Apparel & Footwear, Exhibition Design, Textile Design, Landscape Architecture, and Transportation Design and includes the largest selection of sustainable materials and the only Cradle to Cradle materials library in the world: Polymers, Ceramics, Glass, Metals, Cement-based materials, Natural Materials, Carbon-based materials, and Processes.

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