Electronic Resources Trials

Aberystwyth University libraries request free site trials of resources in response to enquiries by staff and students. We also request trials of new resources that we think may be of interest and use in teaching, learning or research at Aberystwyth University.

See the tables below for details of current or recent trials. Trial access is available on campus. Off-campus access is sometimes available via VPN.

Please email librarians@aber.ac.uk after visiting any of the resource trials, describing briefly how the resource would be of use to you in teaching, learning or research.

Current trials

Resource	Publisher	URL	Trial ends
Oxford Bibliographies	Oxford University Press	https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/	03/12/2023
Orlando	Cambridge University Press	https://orlando.cambridge.org/	15/12/2023

 

Please also let us know if you have found a resource for which you would like us to arrange a site trial, or if you have any other enquiries about these trials.

Although many of the resources we trial are too expensive to consider subscribing to in the first instance

• you might like to try these resources even if it is only for a limited time
• publishers may offer more viable pricing models in the future e.g. a single purchase price rather than a recurrent commitment
• we can gather evidence of interest in a resource to support a case for purchase, particularly where interest is found to be inter-disciplinary.

Recent trials

Resource	Publisher	Trial ended
Science Technology & Medicine, 1780-1925 - Nineteenth Century Collections Online	Gale Cengage
CAB Reviews	CABI	28/02/2022
Punch Historical Archive 1841-1992	Gale Cengage	13/03/2020
Kanopy	Kanopy.com	29/11/2019
Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive	Alexander Street (ProQuest)	15/11/2019
Digital Theatre Plus	Digital Theatre Plus	16/07/2019
Future Medicinal Chemistry (2018 & 2019 only)	Future Science	31/12/2019