National ASTD has just introduced a new member benefit. -- access to full-text articles from T+D, Learning Circuits and from thousands of leading periodicals, journals, newspapers, and regional business news through quick and easy searches of this dynamic database.
You can locate the Online Library here:
http://www.astd.org/content/research/doYourOwn/doYourOwn.htm
To use it, you have to be a national member -- and you have to sign in.I test drove the site today (Sunday, March 8, 2009). It was easy to use and the articles provided seemed they would be useful. (This was just a 15 minute test drive, so I didn't dive deeply.)
Make sure you use the ASTD Online Library link at the top of the page and not the Trainlit Literature Database link, if the latter is still available, further down. The Online Lirbary is easy to use and pulls up useful information. The Trainlit Literture Database did neither. According the the ASTD Knowledge Center web page, Trainlit is supposed to be unavailalbe after March 6, so it may not even be there when you go.
The Online Library, powered by EBSCOhost®, provides access to:
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Nearly 3,000 titles
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Over 170 full-text business monographs and business books.
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Selected business content from more than 100 major regional newspapers, and business news from 50 regional sources.
In addition, you have access to Business Book Summaries that let you preview more than 700 of the leading business books covering business skills and soft skills development.
National ASTD members, take a look. Let us know what you think.
Eric Hansen
-- GCASTD President