Textile Technology Complete provides extensive coverage of the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing. Formerly the Institute of Textile Technology's Textile Technology Digest, this database traces the body of knowledge in textile science and technology as far back as the early years of the 20th century.

Textile Technology Complete contains indexing and abstracting for more than 460 periodical titles, and for thousands of titles drawn from sources such as books, conferences, theses, technical reports and trade literature. Subject coverage includes manufacturing techniques, textile end products, chemicals and dyes, the properties of natural and synthetic fibers and yarns, environmental issues, and the related areas of chemistry, biology and physics. Coverage spans the domestic and international arenas and includes publications covering the major resources from the scientific community, as well as the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and polymer industries.

This database also includes full text for more than 50 journals, as well as over 50 books and monographs.

Textile Technology Complete includes the following full-text backfiles:

• Textile Chemist & Colorist & American Dyestuff Reporter and its predecessor Textile Chemist and Colorist back to 1/1/1969, volume 1, issue 1
• AATCC Review full text backfile to 1/1/2001, volume 1, issue 1
• Journal of the Textile Institute full text backfile to 1910, volume 1, issue 1 (EBSCO 2008)

Trial ends December 10

The Index to Printed Music (IPM) is an invaluable resource for music researchers and students.  IPM is the only online resource for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, with over 307,000 index records of individual music works. The database has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

IPM records with detailed indexing include, but are not limited to:

• composers
• poets
• librettists
• performing forces (medium)
• formats
• genres

Users can also search for titles of music collections, as well as individual compositions (Ebsco 2008).

Trial ends December 20

The story of the American West has exerted a powerful influence over the psyche of the modern world, helping to fashion senses of national identity as well as permeating literary and cinematic culture. Tales of frontier life, of Native Americans and of vigilantes and outlaws are of constant interest, and are matched by more recent interest in the growth of urban centres, the environmental impact of westward expansion and of life in the borderlands.

The Graff Collection is a unique resource that allows scholars to explore all of these areas and more. Through a mixture of original manuscripts, maps, ephemeral material and rare printed sources, this collection is a dynamic teaching and research resource.

• Papers of early pioneers, explorers and hunters, such as the original manuscript journal and papers of James Audubon.

• Canada and the Pacific Northwest, such as accounts of the Gold Rush and of the landscape.

• The evolution of Western towns can be seen through materials such as prospectuses and city directories.

• The growth of railway and road networks can be explored through maps and railroad company records.

• Emigrants guides, manuscript travel journals, store catalogues, illustrations and maps enable scholars to understand Westward expansion.

• Accounts of ranches and the prairie lands document the agricultural transformation of the West.

• Rich resources for the study of Texas, Mexico and the South.

• Literary and historical works, and contemporary newspapers and posters enable a better understanding of the real and mythic West – with first hand accounts of the lives of vigilantes and outlaws.

• Native American history and culture is also very well documented.

• Original manuscripts, ephemeral material (trade cards, wanted posters, photos, claim certificates, news-sheets etc), maps, and rare printed works.(Adam Matthew Digital, 2008)

Trial ends December 31