Electronic Resource Trials

Please take the time to review these resources and submit comments to the Library Reference Desk at reference@tcu.edu.

Business Book Summaries

Business Book Summaries® (BBS) provides comprehensive, yet concise summaries for the best business books available. Using stringent criteria, only the top 1% of the more than 6,000 business books published each year in the United States is selected for inclusion in the database. Summaries are provided for more than 700 of the top business books from the last 20 years.

Trial ends 10/30/2009.

Reaxys

Reaxys is a web-based search and retrieval system for chemical compounds, bibliographic data and chemical reactions. It is built to support chemists in their daily work with focused and relevant information in chemistry.

Coverage: current

Number of simultaneous users permitted: unlimited

Trial ends 10/31/2009.

Passport Global Market Information Database (GMID)

This in-depth database provides information useful to students and faculty within the realm of marketing, business, international business, and economics. This coverage is tailor-made for faculty and students as a one-stop site for country, consumer/marketing, company and industry information including:

Over 8 Million Internationally Comparable Statistics

• Market Size, Company Share and Brand Share data for 25 consumer markets & 300+ products
• Key economic indicators (GDP, inflation, exchange rates)
• Population structure (age, sex, immigration, birth rates)
• Business environment (labor, taxes, education)
• Government policy (expenditure, investment)
• Country infrastructure (telecom, transport, public services)
• Environment (pollution, consumption)
• Household profiles (home ownership, family size, marital status)
• Possession of goods (televisions, refrigerators, computers)
• Finances (disposable income, household income, savings)
• Health (obesity, nutrition, smoking)
• Leisure activities (travel, entertainment, culture)
• Online trends (internet users, shopping)

• Global & national market reports (industry trends & key market drivers)
• Company profiles (market performance & strategies for global & national companies)
• Country profiles (overview of political structure, population, economic outlook)
• Future demographics (analysis of population structure by sex and age from 1976 through 2020)
• Consumer lifestyles (how people live their lives and influencing factors)
• Strategy briefings (analysis of global trends influencing consumer markets)

• Industry events and news
• Changing country and business environment
• Emerging consumer trends and attitudes

Trial ends 11/30/2009.

EBSCOHost Integrated Search

EBSCOHost Integrated Search is a federated search engine that allows the user to simultaneously search EBSCO databases together with these other sources:

• Academic OneFile
• JSTOR
• LexisNexis Academic
• NewspaperDirect Library PressDisplay
• Ovid Nursing Collection II
• Project Muse
• ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
• ScienceDirect
• TCU Library OPAC
• Web of Science
• Wiley Interscience
• WorldCat

Number of simultaneous users permitted: unlimited

Trial ends 11/30/2009.

Humanities International Complete

Humanities International Complete provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. This database includes all data from Humanities International Index (more than 2,200 journals and 2.71 million records) plus unique full-text content, much of which is not found in other databases. The database includes full text for more than 1030 journals.

Coverage: 1909 to current

Number of simultaneous users permitted: unlimited

Trial ends 11/30/2009.

Reviewed 08/26/2009

Reviewed by Dennis Gibbons

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