Trial Database with Environmental Compnent

The WMU Libraries has a trial subscription to the Global Issues in Context database (password: "trial"). This database is produced by the same company as the GREENR, another trial database I wrote about yesterday.

Both databases have a similar format -- a focus on news, background information, primary source documents, commentaries, statistics, and and videos -- although different subject emphasis.

Since Global Issues in Context has an environmental component (the image and links circled on the screen shot to the right), I would like to know how students, staff, and faculty in the WMU natural sciences departments think these two databases compare.

Do you think that...

(1) subscribing to both GREENR and Global Issues in Context would be redundant
(2) we should subscribe to GREENR -- subscribing to only Global Issues in Context would *not* provide enough environmental resources
(3) Both databases are wonderful and needed
(4) Neither stands out - we already subscribe to all of the environmental article databases you need
(5) Other: _____________________________________

Please let me know what you think.

The trial ends Friday, October 23.


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Try Out Environmental Database

The WMU Libraries are trying out GREENR, an online database that includes materials -- news, background information, primary source documents, commentaries, statistics, and and videos covering renergy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population, and economic development -- about environmental issues.

The database's content and organization is quite different than a typical article database, and we in the libraries are trying to decide if it's worth subscribing to. Please take a look at it and let me know what you think.

Faculty, is this a resource that you would for your research? Students, is this a database that you would use for assignments? Instructors, is this a resource you would suggest your students use for projects? Let me know.

The trial subscription ends Wednesday, September 30 Friday, October 23.

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