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Emerson Library Database Trials
The trials below are being evaluated by Emerson's librarians, faculty, staff and students. The Emerson community is welcome to take part in these trials - but please share your experiences to guide our decisions!
- Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
This database provides the complete runs of major trade and consumer magazines from their inception to 2000. It arms students and researchers with the primary source material needed to develop a contextual understanding of the entertainment industry as it evolved over the 20th century. Includes Variety, Spin, Melody Maker, and Billboard, among other titles. - WARC World Advertising Research CenterWARC provides authoritative forecasts of advertising expenditure for all major economies, used by researchers worldwide, as well as case studies, best practice guides, marketing intelligence, consumer insight, industry trends and latest news from around the world. WARC publishes 5 journals available online - Admap, Market Leader, International Journal of Advertising, Journal of Advertising Research and International Journal of Market Research
- AdForumAdForum is an online audiovisual library of more than 120,000 advertisements (1999-present), including:
television ads
digital/Web ads
social media ads
print (magazine & newspaper) ads
radio ads
and various other forms of "Out of Home" advertising like billboards, posters, and vehicle mounted images. Content originates from over 20,000 advertising agencies in dozens of countries. Award-winning advertising can also be retrieved by award name and year (e.g., Clio, Effie, One Show, etc). - University Press Scholarship OnlineAn ebook collection, UPSO offers full-text access to top scholarly books from around the world, making disparately published scholarship easily accessible, highly discoverable, and fully cross-searchable via a single online platform.
- ARBA - American Reference Books Annual
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ARBAonline, American Reference Books Annual, is the most comprehensive, authoritative database for quality reviews of print and electronic reference works. Recent updates include 100 reviews of new releases in the world of reference. ARBAonline currently features over 22,000 reviews of reference works published since 1997 and covers reference sources from more than 400 publishers in over 500 subject areas.
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