Trials

• ALA's Guide to Reference
• Geographic Research's SimplyMap

• ALA's Guide to Reference

This trial is active until December 27, 2009, and is a free 60-day database trial. Use the following link to access:

http://www.guidetoreference.org.

Although access is via IP authentication, please note that you'll also want to set up your own User Profile to take advantage of the full features on the site. To do that you should click on the "Create a Profile" link on the home page in the upper right hand corner. This is an essential step for accessing the full content and for using interactive features like creating notes and lists, as well as saving searches.

ALA's Guide to Reference is a selective guide to the best reference sources, organized by academic discipline. An editorial team of reference librarians and subject experts have selected and annotated some 16,000 entries, both print and web-based, free and subscription. Users in libraries subscribing to Guide to Reference can set up a profile for use in their reference and research work. This subscription database, published by the American Library Association, is updated on an ongoing basis.

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• Geographic Research's SimplyMap

This trial is active until December 11, 2009, and is a free 30-day database trial. Use the following link to access:

http://simplymap.com/index.php.

SimplyMap is an Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Professional mapping applications take over 20 hours of training to use, but SimplyMap has been designed to be incredibly user friendly—most users are up and running with less than 10 minutes of training.

Although access is via IP authentication, please note that you'll also want to create your own Personal Workspace to take advantage of the full features on the site. For information on how to get started with SimplyMap, see http://simplymap.com/New-SimplyMap-Help/Default.htm.

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