Coop Connection-January 2012
News and Trials for: All Libraries | Academic Libraries | K-12 Libraries
All Libraries
Gale Training Webinars: Gale is offering a number of webinars in January on a variety of databases, usage statistics and Gale Virtual Reference Library (ebooks). For a complete listing of webinars, dates and times please see this link.
ProQuest Training: Start the new year off right with a free webinar from ProQuest. Here's the link to their monthly calendar: www.proquestk12.com/go/trainingsignup
Accolades for NewsCurrents and Read to Know: Knowledge Unlimited of Madison, still beaming from having NewsCurrents Online and Read to Know named to District Administration Magazine's "Readers' Choice Top 100 Products of 2011," is offering free trials of these programs to any WiLS-affiliated school or district. NewsCurrents Online and Read to Know help you teach students what's going on around the U.S. and the world; more importantly, these programs help to build the background information, vocabulary, history, civics, and critical thinking skills they need to truly UNDERSTAND these stories.
Contact Matt Cibula at 608 661 5666, ext. 3068, or cibula@newscurrents.com, to find out how to set up a special extended free trial.
Academic Libraries
Ergonomics Abstracts from EBSCO includes articles from over 400 leading journals plus book chapters and conference proceedings, and currently includes over 150,000 online records covering more than 25 years of ergonomics research. Please email for a trial or pricing.
Receive a 30% discount on new subscriptions to JOVE (Journal of Visual Experiments) databases through January 31. JOVE combines video demonstrations with precise procedural descriptions that illustrate key biomedical research methods. JoVE video topics encompass biological, chemical, medical, and physical research techniques, as well as basic research protocols (e.g., DNA microarrays).
Project Muse is offering discounts on its new ebooks. There are 47 book collections available for perpetual access purchase. All are available for a one-time fee, and some are also available on a "lease to own" option. Features include unlimited simultaneous usage, printing and downloading, DRM-free PDF format, and books are searchable and retrievable to the chapter level and simultaneous publication in e and p formats for new titles. Title lists for 2011 and earlier are here.
Please find the list of upcoming group renewals below. Please send an email to Kirsten if you are interested in running a trial or getting pricing for any of the following databases.
Please note that for some group databases, there are options to upgrade to full text.
| February | March | April |
|---|---|---|
| Mental Measurements with Texts in Print (EBSCO) | ABC-CLIO America: History and Life (EBSCO) (Full Text Option) |
BioOne |
| SPORTDiscus (EBSCO) | ABC-CLIO Historical Abstracts (EBSCO) (Full Text Option) |
K-12 Libraries
Trials (Logins) from Scholastic
Grolier—user: gogrolier password: winter
TrueFLIX—user: trueflix password: winter
BookFLIX—user: bookflix password: winter
Passwords are good until February 15, 2011 For questions regarding any of these trials, please contact: Matthew Kopyar 612.386.0599 mkopyar@earthlink.net
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Vendor Profile: Scholastic
Name
e: Matthew Kopyar; Please call me: Matthew
What I do: Independent Representative
Who I do it for and for how long: Scholastic Library Publishing and Quality Books for 8 years
My favorite part of the job is: Working with my customers
The database/product I am most excited about and why is: TRUE FLIX—a blended media solution that leverages TRUE Book content
Something most people don't know about me is: Launched a NASCAR team
I am currently reading: The Sentry by Crais
You can reach me at: 5120 France Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55410 Office: 612.386.0599 Fax: 952.285.7770 mkopyar@earthlink.net
NewsCurrents and Read-to-Know Knowledge Unlimited of Madison, still beaming from having NewsCurrents Online and Read to Know named to District Administration Magazine's "Readers' Choice Top 100 Products of 2011," is offering free trials of these programs to any WiLS-affiliated school or district. NewsCurrents Online and Read to Know help you teach students what's going on around the U.S. and the world; more importantly, these programs help to build the background information, vocabulary, history, civics, and critical thinking skills they need to truly UNDERSTAND these stories.
