Database Trials
New Database Trials
- For access, please call the Reference Desk at 262.472.1032 and we will email the username and password to your campus email.
- EBL is a purchase-on-demand service, so the universe of books available in this trial is not what would actually appear in our version of EBL if we were to go with this product.
- Vendor's product description
- Please send us feedback on this database.
- Trial ends: April 15, 2013
- ebrary Academic Complete has 80,000 academic books covering many disciplines.
- Vendor's product description
- Please send us feedback on this database.
- Trial ends: April 30, 2013
EBSCO Ebook Academic Collection 
- EBSCO Academic Ebook Collection has 112,000 academic books covering the arts, humanities, social sciences, medicine, and technology.
- Vendor's product description
- Please send us feedback on this database.
- Trial ends: April 30, 2013
National Technical Reports Library V3.0 (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)
- The NTRL V3.0 contains the meta-data of over 3 million scientific and technical reports, with access to approximately 740,000 of these reports in full-text. The collection is arranged by 39 Subject Categories and 375 Sub-categories.
- Vendor's product description
- Trial ends: March 31, 2013
Primo Central (Ex Libris)
- The Primo Central discovery tool is designed for quick and efficient search and discover of library resources. This is a beta test version of Primo Central. Not all resources have been activated and/or tested. So please bear with us as we continue to develop this tool.
- Vendor's product description
- You may also want to use the test instance of Primo Central which features sample catalog records from all UW libraries.
- Trial begins: November 26, 2012
Past Database Trials
- Vendor's product description.
- Trial begins Monday, October 3, 2011.
- Trial ends Friday, December 16, 2011.
- We plan to subscribe to this database as of January 1, 2012.
Alexander St. Press Counseling and Therapy (Alexander Street Press)
- Subsets of this collection include:
Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume I
Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume II
The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy - Vendor's product description
- Outcome: The Library now subscribes to Volume 1 of this collection
American Periodicals (ProQuest)
- Vendor's product description.
- Trial ended February 26, 2011.
- Outcome: We did not receive sufficient feedback to make a decision on this database.
America's Newspapers (NewsBank)
- Vendor's product description
- Outcome: The Library now has a subcription to America's Newspapers.
- Vendor's product description.
- Outcome: Due to the high cost (nearly $30,000 in one-time and annual access fees), we will not be able to subscribe.
- Trial ended: Tuesday, May 1, 2012.
- Please send your feedback to the Library about this trial.
bX Recommender (Ex Libris)
- bX Recommender is different from our other product trials because it's a service that works within our other databases and is not a "standalone" product. bX is a new scholarly article recommender service which will aid researchers in finding additional relevant articles. bX is similar to the "More Like This" or "If You Liked This, You’ll Also Like..." services on web sites such as Amazon, but it is based on article usage by nearly 2,000 users at research institutions around the world. bX Recommender is available from the Find It
menu in the Library's article databases (e.g., EBSCOhost, WilsonWEB, and ProQuest databases) - Vendor's product description
- Short screencast demo of bX Recommender
- Screenshot of bX Recommender
- Trial ended: March 26, 2010
- The UW System began a subscription to this product in Spring, 2010.
DRAM (streaming music)
- Vendor's product description
- Trial ended: September 30, 2010
- Outcome: The Library now subscribes to DRAM.
DSM-IV TR Online (American Psychological Association)
- Vendor's product description.
- Outcome: The Library's subscription began on August 1, 2011.
- Outome: Subscription began January 1, 2010. Thanks for your feedback!
GEOBASE (Elsevier)
- Vendor's product description.
- Trial begins Wednesday, September 7, 2011.
- Trial ends Friday, October 7, 2011.
- Please send us feedback on this database.
Global Road Warrior: The Ultimate Guide to the World (World Trade Press)
- Outcome: We now have a subscription to Global Road Warrior.
- Vendor's product description
- Trials ended: February 28, 2010
Grove Art Online (Oxford) 
- Vendor's product description.
- Outcome: Due to lack of feedback we will not pursue this subscription.
- Trial ended: Wednesday, February 26, 2012.
- Please send your feedback to the Library about this trial.
Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
- Vendor's product description and title list
- Outcome: The Library's subscription to this product began in May, 2010
Music Online: Listening (Alexander Street Press)
- Subsets of this collection include:
American Song
Classical Music Library
Contemporary World Music
Jazz Music Library
Smithsonian Global Sound. - Vendor's product description
- Trial ended: September 30, 2010
- Outcome: The Library now has a subscription to Jazz Music Library.
- Vendor's product description
- Trial ended: September 30, 2010
- Outcome: The Library now has subscription to Naxos.
Reaxys (Elsevier)
- Vendor's product description
- Trial ended: November 30, 2010
- Outcome: We now have a subscription to Reaxys, courtesy of UW-Madison.
Theatre In Video (Alexander St. Press)
- Outcome: The response to this database was lukewarm, due to the recent acquisitions of Films on Demand, so we did not subscribe.
- Trial ended: February 28, 2010
Women and Social Movements International (Alexander Street Press)
- Vendor's product description.
- Outcome: The feedback was mixed on this database and it was decided not to subscribe at this time.
- Trial ended: Monday, October 31, 2011.
WestlawNext Campus Research (Thomson Reuters) >
- Outcome: This interface will eventually become the only interface offered for this product. Therefore we plan to make the switch for January, 2013.
- Vendor's product description
- Trial ended: October 20, 2012
Wilson Core Collections (EBSCO)
- Children's Core Collection
Vendor's description of Children's Core Collection. - Middle and Junior High Core Collection
Vendor's description of Middle & Junior High Core Collection. - Senior High Core Collection
Vendor's description of Senior High Core Collection. - Outcome: We will subscribe to this database as of August 1, 2012.
- Trial ended :Wednesday, February 27, 2012.
World Shakespeare Bibliography Online
- Vendor's product description.
- Trial begins Monday, November 1, 2011.
- Trial ends Thursday, December 31, 2011.
- We are planning to subscribe to this database as of January 1, 2012.
Andersen Library Database List
Last Revised: cje - 4/18/2013
