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Princeton University has a trial subscription to Springer Materials, the new Landolt-Bornstein database. This database is a huge resource for physical and chemical data and includes 165,000 substances and material systems, 3,000 properties, and 1,000,000 literature citations. The new interface includes keyword and advanced searching, and the ability to browse by subject area, Landolt-Bornstein volume, or periodic table. The trial is available until January 29, 2009 at http://www.springermaterials.com/

 Please have a look and let us know what you think.

Princeton University has a trial subcription to two new databases from Jane's:

Jane's Sentinel Country Risk Assessments
A compilation of data on all UN sanctioned countries and territories which includes defense and security matters, but also extensive write ups on politics, leadership, international and domestic relations, demographics, economic information, infrastructure and other factual areas.
Trial ends: 8/29/2009

Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre
News, analysis and records of over 200 terrorist groups. Daily updates from over 200 news services around the world (wire services, the Times [London], International Herald Tribune, magazines and journals); in depth analysis on major events of terrorist and counter-terrorism related issues and a robust collection of detailed information and a chronology of the groups themselves. Includes the major transnational groups, regional and local based groups, and also transnational criminal gangs or organized criminal groups.

All trials can also be viewed on the trial subscriptions database page:

http://libweb5.princeton.edu/eresources/resources.aspx?trials=1

Princeton University Libraries has a five day trial to ASM International’s Alloy Phase Diagram Center. This online tool “allows subscribers to explore, search and view more than 28,000 binary and ternary phase diagrams and associated phase data for more than 6,200 systems from their Web browsers.”

The trial is available until May 19^th at http://www.asminternational.org/AsmEnterprise/APD/

If you have any questions or comments about the Phase Diagrams Center or the trial, please contact myself at wdressel@princeton.edu or Adriana Popescu at popescua@princeton.edu.

Princeton University Libraries have a one month trial to BuildingGreen.com

Building Green integrates a suite of online tools with wide-ranging information on sustainable building including the GreenSpec directory of products and Environmental Building News. Please have a look and let us know what you think.

Princeton University Libraries now has a trial subscription to the National Technical Information Service’s (NTIS) new online library, the National Technical Reports Library (NTRL). NTIS “serves as the largest central resource for [US] government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today.” Good through March 31, 2009, the NTRL trial offers access to 2.5 million records and over 500,000 Full Text PDFs from NTIS. The top ten subject categories in the collection are:

• 57 Medicine & Biology
• 92 Behavior & Society
• 74 Military Sciences
• 46 Physics
• 70 Administration & Management
• 91 Urban & Regional Technology & Development
• 68 Environmental Pollution & Control
• 43 Problem Solving Information for State & Local Governments
• 96 Business & Economics
• 48 Natural Resources & Earth Sciences

To take advantage of this trial, please visit http://ntrl.ntis.gov and let us know what you think.

Princeton University has a trial subscription to InsideEPA.com through February. This online news service provides instant access to the latest issues of environmental newsletters provided by Inside EPA, including:

• Inside EPA
• Superfund Report
• Clean Air Report
• Water Policy Report
• Environmental Policy Alert
• Inside Cal/EPA
• Risk Policy Report
• Defense Environment Alert

This subscription provides searchable archives from as early as 1998 and featured daily news headlines on the home page.

To explore this trial visit http://www.insideepa.com/ and let us know what you think.

In addition to the online news service from Inside EPA, we also have trial subscriptions of EnergyWashington.com and Carbon Control News through February.

EnergyWashington.com provides online news on the national energy policy and is available at http://www.energywashington.com/

Carbon Control News provides online news on the regulation and control of greenhouse gases and is available at http://www.carboncontrolnews.com/

Princeton has a trial subscription to the Material ConneXion database through January 30th. The database contains information on over 1400 materials and processes. You can search by product name, material category, keyword, year, or country.

Material ConneXion is a “knowledge base for information about new and innovative materials.”

For more information or to try out this resource, please visit http://gamma.materialconnexion.com/academic/Default.asp and let us know what you think.

Princeton University Libraries now have a trial subscription to the Referex Engineering reference library from Engineering Village. This e-book collection contains hundreds of full text engineering books you can browse, search, and read from the comfort of your own computer or laptop. Subject coverage includes: Electronics & Electrical; Chemical, Petrochemical & Process; Materials & Mechanical; Civil & Environmental; Computing; and Security & Networking.

Beginning January 8, 2009, a keyword tag cloud will be added to each e-book title record to facilitate search and discovery.

Visit http://www.engineeringvillage.com/controller/servlet/Controller?CID=ebookSearch&database=131072 and let us know what you think.

Applied Science and Technology Index Retrospective

Coverage dates: 1913 - 1983

Please forward comments to the Digital Resources Advisory Group (dirag@princeton.edu) If the above link doesn’t work, please go to the Articles & Databases page, and click on “Trial databases”. Trial ends: 1/31/2008