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Hoover Library is conducting a trial of the database Tests in Print. “Tests in Print produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).” To access the trial, go to the library home page at http://hoover.mcdaniel.edu/, click on Find Articles, then scroll down to the Trials feature and click on Tests in Print. If you have any questions, please contact Sally Jones at sajones@mcdaniel.edu.

We have added a new database to our electronic collection. ARTFL, the project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language, consists of nearly 2000 texts, ranging from classic works of French literature to various kinds of non-fiction prose and technical writing. The eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries are also represented, with a smaller selection of seventeenth century texts as well as some medieval and Renaissance texts. Recently added is a Provençal database that includes 38 texts in their original spellings. Genres include novels, verse, theater, journalism, essays, correspondence, and treatises. Subjects include literary criticism, biology, history, economics, and philosophy. If you have any questions, please contact Sally Jones at sajones@mcdaniel.edu.