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February Research Database Trials

This February, the University of St. Thomas Libraries are trialing five research databases. These resources will be available for the entire month, giving students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to explore and provide feedback to help determine whether the libraries should invest in these resources in the future.

We value your input! Please send any comments or questions to the librarian listed with each resource by February 28th.

APA PsycTests (via ProQuest)

Access APA PsycTests
APA PsycTests allows you to instantly find and download instruments for research and teaching, making it easy to access tests and measures designed for use with social and behavior science research. Each record provides a summary of the construct, and also provides information on reliability, validity, and factor analysis.

Dive into the wide range of test types including test batteries, questionnaires, rating scales, surveys, and much more.

Please contact Merrie Davidson with any questions or feedback.

Financial Times

Access Financial Times: you will need to set-up an account using your St. Thomas email

FT.com is the fully digital version of The Financial Times, a leading international newspaper that provides in-depth analysis of global markets, industries, and economic trends. Beyond business, it also covers politics, technology, climate change, social issues, and lifestyle trends, making it a valuable resource across multiple disciplines. The digital platform allows users to quickly search for topics using keywords or browse entire issues with ease.

Please contact Andrea Koeppe with any questions or feedback.

ProQuest One Academic

Access ProQuest One Academic (copy/paste link into browser):
https://login.ezproxy.stthomas.edu/login?URL=https://www.proquest.com/pq1academic

ProQuest One Academic is an all-in-one research database that provides access to scholarly journals, dissertations, newspapers, ebooks, primary sources, and streaming videos across multiple disciplines—all from a single platform. It includes four core multi-disciplinary products – ProQuest Central, Academic Complete, Academic Video Online and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.

With over 40 databases, ProQuest Central includes content across all major subject areas, including business, health and medical (including nursing), social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science, engineering and religion.
ProQuest One Academic information page

Please contact Andrea Koeppe with any questions or feedback.

Scopus and Web of Science

Scopus and Web of Science are two of the most widely used multidisciplinary citation databases for academic research. Both databases are essential for literature reviews, tracking research trends, and assessing scholarly impact through citation analysis. They are competing products from two different providers. St. Thomas currently subscribes to Scopus.

Since both Scopus and Web of Science have recently added AI features to their products, the Libraries are trialing both products to solicit feedback on their functionality and to determine future needs.

Scopus AI

Access Scopus AI
Scopus AI is a powerful, AI-driven add-on feature to the Scopus database. It is designed to enhance the research process by leveraging the extensive Scopus database of peer-reviewed literature, patents, and conference proceedings. Developed to assist researchers, students, and professionals, Scopus AI simplifies the often-daunting task of sifting through massive amounts of scholarly information.

Key features of Scopus AI include:

Smart Search Assistance: Scopus AI refines search queries, helping users locate relevant articles, papers, or datasets with precision.
Trend Analysis: It identifies emerging trends in research fields, providing insights into current and future directions.
Content Summarization: Scopus AI generates concise summaries of articles, saving time and making it easier to extract key findings.
Collaboration Insights: The tool highlights key contributors, institutions, and partnerships in specific research areas.

Scopus AI FAQs page

Please contact Karen Brunner with any questions or feedback.

Web of Science, with AI Research Assistant

Access Web of Science
The Web of Science Research Assistant is a responsibly developed, generative AI-powered tool designed to enhance research and help discover fresh insights faster. The Research Assistant runs alongside researchers as they work, keeping up with research needs as they develop. Intelligent discovery helps the researcher effortlessly interpret and explore the literature. Task-based guidance and contextual prompts light up potential paths forward and enable researchers to complete complex research tasks faster.

Key features include:

Delivery of carefully curated data from editorially selected sources, with guided walk-throughs and relevant, context-specific prompts
Optimization for academic research use cases
Adherence to licensing agreements, usage rights, and evolving global regulations
Inclusion of concise overviews and commentaries, as well as dynamic visualizations such as trend graphs, topic maps, and co-citation networks

More information about the Research Assistant

Our trial also includes the Journal Highly Cited Data package, a separate analytics solution that is the combination of Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators. This has connections to Web of Science Core Collection to provide visibility to journal metrics (like Impact Factor) and article metrics (like Hot or Highly Cited Papers).
Access Journal Citation Reports
Access Essential Science Indicators

Clarivate Trial Terms and Conditions

Please contact Meg Manahan with any questions or feedback.

February 4, 2025 by Mary Stade

Database Highlights & Trials

October Research Database Trials (Concluded)

Please note, the October Trials have concluded.

This October, the St. Thomas Libraries are excited to offer trials of two powerful databases: Micromedex and Pragda. These resources will be available for the entire month, giving students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to explore cutting-edge information in healthcare and global cinema.

Micromedex

For healthcare professionals and students, Micromedex provides:

Comprehensive Drug Information: Detailed drug monographs, interactions, and dosage calculators.

Toxicology Insights: Fast, reliable toxicology resources for emergency care.

Disease Management: Up-to-date clinical guidelines for treating a variety of conditions.

Pragda

Film lovers and global studies enthusiasts will love Pragda, which offers:

International Cinema: A curated collection of contemporary films from Spain and Latin America.

Cultural Insights: Films that explore diverse cultures, social issues, and human experiences.

Educational Value: An excellent resource for those studying world languages, film, and global studies.

Both trials are open from October 1st to October 31st, and we encourage everyone to explore these platforms. We value your feedback and want to hear from you! Please share comments or questions with librarians Karen Brunner (Micromedex) or Amanda Breu (Pragda).

Happy researching and viewing!

October 2, 2024 by Mary Stade

Database Highlights & Trials

February Research Database Trials (Concluded)

Please note, the February Trials have concluded.

During the month of February, the University of St. Thomas Libraries is trialing five research databases. This is an opportunity for the UST community to use these subscriptions at no cost and help determine whether or not the libraries should invest in these resources in the future. We encourage you to provide any feedback about these resources — positive or negative — to the sponsoring librarian listed with each resource by February 24th.

ASME Digital Collection

Access the ASME Digital Collection

The ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Digital Collection provides unparalleled depth, breadth, and quality of peer-reviewed content. The platform is an essential resource for professionals seeking engineering solutions to global challenges. It includes:

ASME’s Journals from 1933-present
ASME’s Conference Proceedings from 2000-present and selected proceedings back to 1955
ASME eBooks from 1993-present with selected titles back to 1944

Please contact Jim Kelly with any questions or feedback.

Compendex on Engineering Village

Access Compendex on Engineering Village

Elsevier’s Compendex on the Engineering Village platform comprises journals, conference proceedings, dissertations, standards, books, and, recently, preprints. The content is sourced from thousands of publishers from around the world, including major engineering societies like IEEE, ASME, SAE, ACM, and many others. The amount of engineering-focused scholarly and technical literature in Compendex is vast and global in scope, featuring everything from the latest cutting-edge findings to historical research and innovations.

Please contact Jim Kelly with any questions or feedback.

Inspec on Engineering Village

Access Inspec on Engineering Village

Inspec hosted on Elsevier’s Engineering Village platform contains over 22 million records from across global publishers to deliver quality content to a wide range of research communities.

Inspec uses precise, subject-specific indexing to enhance the discoverability of scientific research across physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control, mechanical and production engineering, information technology, and more.

Please contact Jim Kelly with any questions or feedback.

ProQuest One Business

Access ProQuest One Business

ProQuest One Business is designed to support the unique teaching and learning needs of business faculty and students. Developed in collaboration with faculty, students, and business librarians, ProQuest One Business delivers a mix of practical and theoretical content in an interface that helps students build the research skills they’ll need for success in their courses and careers. A business-focused interface intuitively guides users to content including journal articles, books, and company, industry, and country reports.

Please contact Andrea Koeppe with any questions or feedback.

Trends & Policy: U.S. Immigration

Access Trends & Policy: U.S. Immigration (Use the menu in the upper left corner to limit to U.S. Immigration)

Trends and Policy: U.S. Immigration from ProQuest connects policies implemented by the U.S. government with statistics showing the results of those policies and provides context with analytical reports and news articles. It is designed to be a tool – all the content in one database. It gathers U.S. immigration laws and other materials from the legislative branch, reports and statistics from the executive and judicial branches, and contextual newspaper articles. It includes relevant documents from 1790 to today.

Please contact Andrea Koeppe with any questions or feedback.

February 6, 2024 by Mary Stade

Database Highlights & Trials, Political Science

New database trial in October – Trends & Policy: U.S. Healthcare

The St. Thomas libraries are excited to trial a new database that focuses on U.S. Healthcare policy. Trends & Policy: U.S. Healthcare provides a single location to connect U.S. Government policies with statistics and news showing the results of those policies.

Trends & Policy is a series of in-depth primary source collections such as public laws, Legislative branch reports, and Executive branch reports and data. Currently, researchers must use multiple disparate tools to find all of the essential executive and legislative content related to a policy. Statistical data can often be difficult to find, extract and use in research and in reports. The focus of these collections is not only on their respective topics, but also brings together primary source content relevant to U.S. policy with statistics and data.

If you type in keywords or phrases related to your topic, results are organized by Topic Pages that give context and pathways into research on a topic, Government materials such as public laws, commission reports, and hearings, Newspaper articles, and Statistical tables.

Trends & Policy: U.S. Healthcare cuts a wide swath into many disciplines aside from the obvious audiences of political science and nursing students. MBA students can learn about health maintenance organizations, (HMO’s) educators can read about the effects of school bullying on mental health, and students of history can compare pandemics from the past to the present.

You can access the Libraries’ trial of Trends & Policy: U.S. Healthcare here.

Please contact Andrea Koeppe with any questions or feedback you have about the database trial by October 31st.

October 6, 2022 by Andrea Koeppe

Database Highlights & Trials, Libraries

Database Trial: GeoScienceWorld eBooks

During the month of February, the UST Libraries will be trialing the GeoScienceWorld (GSW) eBook Collections. The UST Libraries already have a subscription to the GeoScienceWorld database and GSWorld eBooks would be an add-on to that platform. The platform is cross-searchable, allowing users to search eBooks, all 46 journals on the GSW platform, and nearly four million GeoRef records simultaneously.

GSW eBooks are from 10 respected publishers in the geosicences, including the Geology Society of America. Other features include:

Responsive design for easy reading on any mobile device
Unlimited access and downloading
Downloadable, DRM-free PDF chapters
Downloadable images
Ability to view larger versions of images

Please try out this database and give us your comments. Click on GeoScienceWorld (GSW) eBook Collections to access the trial site.

This trial runs through February 28, 2019. Please send your comments to Karen Brunner at brun4952@stthomas.edu.

February 1, 2019 by Karen Brunner

Libraries

Nexis Uni vs. Westlaw Campus Research

We at the library work to keep up with new products and resources that make your research more productive. Lexis Nexis had been a staple of our electronic collection seemingly since the dawn of databases. Even though they changed their name to Nexis Uni, and gave themselves a completely new look, the same extensive legal, news, and company information remains in tact.

Now there is a new product from another well known and well respected company that piqued our curiosity. Westlaw is a staple of the UST Law library, and law libraries across the country. Their new product is Westlaw Campus Research, a database that covers the same topic areas as Nexis Uni. The primary strength of Westlaw Campus Research is its collection of legal materials, cases, statutes, regulations and articles from legal journals. It also contains detailed company and financial data, as well as state, national, and international journals and newspapers.

For the next few weeks the libraries are running a free trial of Westlaw that is open to everyone in the UST community. The link to Westlaw is here. During the trial we encourage comparisons and critiques of content, ease of searching, or any other feedback you have about one or both products. You may give any UST librarian your comments or you may send them directly to Andrea Koeppe

February 17, 2018 by Andrea Koeppe

Business & Economics, Database Highlights & Trials

TRIAL – Three Additional Collections in Emerald Management 175

The UST libraries have subscribed to Emerald Management 175 for over five years because of the access it provides to scholarly full text management and international management journal articles. Now for a limited time UST is putting on trial other collections in Emerald previously unavailable in our current subscription.

To search the additional collections, go to the main Emerald search page and conduct a keyword search. From the results you may choose to look at all of the results or limit the hits within an individual collections.

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Emerald’s Business, Management and Economics eBook Series Collection
This collection contains over 400 volumes across multiple business and economic topics such as Management Science, Business Strategy and Organization Studies with new titles added regularly. The interface allows users to search through entire books or books on the chapter level. Many books and chapters are written from authors world-wide to ensure a global perspective.

Emerald Social Sciences eBook Series Collection
The Emerald Social Sciences eBook Series Collection extends the current Emerald business portfolio with high-profile international authorship and high quality cross-disciplinary research with over 240 volumes from over 35 book series titles in the fields of politics, psychology, sociology, health care and education.

Emerging Markets Case Studies Collection
Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies is a new online collection of peer-reviewed case studies focusing on business decision making and management development throughout key global emerging markets written by case writers working in developing economies that offer local perspectives.

The trials end 11/5/11. Please get any comments or questions to Andrea Koeppe at arhudson@stthomas.edu.

October 6, 2011 by Andrea Koeppe