We are experiencing intermittent difficulties with the Ebscohost databases, including Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier. We are working with Ebsco to fix this problem. If you are unable to access an Ebsco database, and are located on campus, try this link: Ebscohost and click on the Ebscohost Web link at the top of the page. If you are not on campus, access will be restored when the problems are fixed.

This problem has been fixed

OSU Libraries has established a trial of Morningstar Library Edition (login=oregonstate; password=library). This database combines fund and stock information and includes:

  • 16,000+ mutual funds
  • 100+ ETFs
  • 6,000+ stocks from NYSE, AMEX,
    Nasdaq, and OTC exchanges
  • 250 screenable fund datapoints
  • 450 screenable stock datapoints
  • 2,000 Fund Analyst Reports
  • 1,500+ Stock Analyst Reports

This trial will end June 16, 2007.

Access has been restored to the First Search databases

We currently have access problems with several of our First Search databases.

This does not affect all of our First Search databases; for example, Worldcat and ArticleFirst are still available.

The databases that are currently unavailable are:

Alternative Press Index
Arts And Humanities
Business Dateline
Clase & Periodica
Contemporary Women’s Issues
Disclosure
Dissertation Abstracts
Ebooks
Factsearch
Geobase
Media Review Digest
Worldscope

Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, is offering a free print subscription to Cell. As a benefit of the site license to Cell Online managed by OSU Libraries, any researcher, student, or faculty member in North America affiliated with our institution is entitled to receive a print subscription – normally a $179 value – absolutely free. To sign up for the offer, go to www.Cell.com/freesub.

For more information about the Cell Affiliated Subscription Program, please see our FAQ at http://www.cell.com/misc/page?page=misc9.

UPDATE: This problem has been fixed

Due to a server issue, some Oxford Online products are experiencing a technical problem which is preventing user access to certain databases.

The affected databases include Oxford Reference Online, Grove Music Online, Grove Art Online,

Please note that the OED Online has not been affected by this technical problem.

OSU Libraries has a trial of several music databases produced by Alexander Street Press. These trials will run through April 11, 2007. The trial is IP-based and can be accessed from computers on the OSU campus in Corvallis.

Classical Music Library
Classical Music Library is a multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Coverage of repertoire is increasing as new labels are added (currently over 32 labels), with a particular focus on content that meets the needs of educators and students. Includes biographical material on composers.

African American Song
African American Song documents the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. It features some 16,000 tracks of great historical recordings from Document Records. This great collection features recordings from the first half of the 20th century and includes iconic artists such as The Fisk Jubilee Singers, Memphis Minnie, Blind Willie McTell and Huddie Ledbetter.

Smithsonian Global Sound
Smithsonian Global Sound includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

Open WorldCat has added two new features:

SORTING SEARCH RESULTS
Web users who perform searches at WorldCat.org can now sort results using several indices. By default, search results are returned sorted by relevance. Additionally, users can now sort by author (alphabetical by last name), title (alphabetical), and date (newest-to-oldest and oldest-to-newest).

Result sorting joins the recently added “Refine Your Search” faceted browse feature in providing users the ability to better examine large result sets.

CITATION FEATURE HELPS STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS
Item records in WorldCat’s open-Web interface now include a “Cite this Item” link that provides bibliographic citations in five common styles: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA and Turabian. Displayed in a separate pop-up window, the citations follow the reference standard for each style.

The citations window cautions users that “formatting rules within a style can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study,” and that they should apply the specific requirements of a reviewing body.

A trial has been set up for Cabell’s directories for Educational Curriculum & Methods and Educational Psychology & Administration. These are directories for the respective fields which provide current contact information (addresses, phone, e-mail and websites) for a large number of journals. Also, the directories include information on publication guidelines and review information when available.

The directories are intended to help users select those journals that are most likely to publish their manuscript. To further assist in organizing and preparing manuscripts, each directory includes extensive information on the style and format of most journals. Furthermore, each directory describes the type of review process used by the editor(s) of a journal, number of reviewers, acceptance rate, time required for review, availability of reviewers’ comments, fees charged to review or publish the manuscript, copies required and manuscript topics.

Trial ends March 2, 2007

To access the trial, please get the login and password from your Library Subject Specialist. The URL for the trial is http://www.cabells.com. Click on the Members link on the lower left and enter the login and password to access the directories.

In 2007, OSU libraries’ subscriptions to Blackwell publishing titles will be moving to electronic journal subscriptions. This will significantly increase the coverage available online. While OSU libraries have had electronic access to Blackwell journals since 2002, our access has been limited to the most recent 2 years worth of issues. In 2007, our subscriptions will expand to four more years worth of issues, back to 2002. OSU Libraries currently subscribes to 238 Blackwell journals.

Blackwell Synergy Journals

Acta crystallographica. Section A
Acta crystallographica. Section B
Acta crystallographica. Section C
Acta crystallographica. Section D
Acta crystallographica. Section E
Acta crystallographica. Section F
Africa research bulletin. Economic financial and technical series
Africa research bulletin. Political social and cultural series
African journal of ecology
Agricultural economics
American journal of agricultural economics
American journal of political science
American journal of reproductive immunology
Analysis – Oxford
Annals of applied biology
Annals of public and cooperative economy
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Anthropology today
Aquaculture nutrition
Aquaculture research
Austral ecology
Australian and New Zealand journal of statistics
Australian journal of agricultural and resource economics
Australian journal of entomology
Australian veterinary journal
Basic and clinical pharmacology and toxicology
Biological journal of the Linnaean Society
Biometrics
Biotropica
Botanical journal of the Linnaean Society
British journal of politics & international relations
British journal of sociology
Bulletin of economic research
Bulletin of Latin American research
Canadian geographer
Canadian journal of agricultural economics
Canadian journal of economics
Centaurus – Oxford
Chemical biology and drug design
Child development
Cladistics – international journal of Willi Hennig Society
Conservation biology & conservation in practice
Conservation in practice
Criminology
Critical quarterly
Current directions in psychological science
Curriculum inquiry
Decision sciences
Decision sciences journal of innovative education
Development growth and differentiation
Diplomatic history
Ecography
Ecological entomology
Ecology letters
Econometrica
Econometrics journal
Economic history review
Economic journal
Economica – Oxford
Economics of transition
Educational measurement: issues and practice
English literary renaissance
Entomologia experimentalis et applicata
Environmental microbiology
Eurochoices
European journal of soil science & soil use and management
Experimental physiology
Family business review
Family process
Family relations
FEMS immunology and medical microbiology
FEMS microbiology ecology
FEMS microbiology letters
FEMS microbiology reviews
FEMS yeast research
Fisheries management and ecology
Fisheries oceanography
Foreign policy analysis
Freshwater biology
Functional ecology
Gender and history
Geographical journal
Geophysical journal international
German life and letters
Global change biology
Ground water – journal of the association of ground water scientists and engineers
Ground water monitoring and remediation
Growth and change – a journal of urban and regional policy
Health services research
Higher education quarterly
Historian – Oxford
History and theory
History of education quarterly
Immunological reviews
Immunology and cell biology
Industrial relations – Malden
Insect molecular biology
International affairs – Oxford
International economic review
International journal of applied ceramic technology
International journal of consumer studies
International journal of food science and technology – Oxford
International social science journal
International studies perspectives
International studies quarterly
International studies review
Invertebrate biology
Island arc
Journal for the theory of social behaviour
Journal of accounting research
Journal of aesthetics and art criticism
Journal of agricultural economics
Journal of American culture
Journal of anatomy
Journal of animal ecology
Journal of applied crystallography
Journal of applied ecology
Journal of applied microbiology
Journal of applied philosophy
Journal of applied social psychology
Journal of avian biology
Journal of biogeography & global ecology and biogeography & diversity and distributions
Journal of Chinese philosophy
Journal of ecology
Journal of economics and management strategy
Journal of educational measurement
Journal of eukaryotic microbiology
Journal of field ornithology
Journal of finance
Journal of financial research
Journal of fish biology
Journal of fish diseases
Journal of food biochemistry
Journal of food lipids
Journal of food process engineering
Journal of food processing and preservation
Journal of food quality
Journal of food safety
Journal of foodservice
Journal of industrial economics
Journal of internal medicine & supplements
Journal of international financial management & accounting
Journal of law medicine and ethics
Journal of management studies
Journal of marriage and family
Journal of microscopy
Journal of muscle foods
Journal of neurochemistry
Journal of personality
Journal of physiology
Journal of politics
Journal of popular culture
Journal of regional science
Journal of religious ethics
Journal of sensory studies
Journal of small animal practice
Journal of social philosophy
Journal of texture studies
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – Series A
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – Series B
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society – Series C
Journal of the World Aquaculture Society
Journal of time series analysis
Journal of veterinary pharmacology and therapeutics
Journal of zoology
Language learning
Law and society review – Oxford
Letters in applied microbiology
Manchester school
Mathematical finance
Metaphilosophy
Midwest studies in philosophy
Milbank quarterly
Milton quarterly
Modern language journal
Molecular microbiology
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
Muslim world
Natural resources forum
New phytologist
Nous
Oikos – Oxford
Oxford bulletin of economics and statistics
Pacific economic review
Pacific philosophical quarterly
Perspectives on psychological science
Philosophical forum
Philosophical issues
Philosophical perspectives
Philosophical quarterly
Physiologia plantarum
Physiological entomology
Pigment cell research
Plant cell and environment
Plant journal
Plant pathology
Political quarterly
Political studies
Political studies review
Politics
Population and development review
Presidential studies quarterly
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
Professional geographer
Psychological science
Psychological science in the public interest
Psychology of women quarterly
Religious studies review – Oxford
Restoration ecology
Review of agricultural economics
Review of economic studies
Review of income and wealth
Review of international economics
Risk analysis
Scandinavian journal of economics
Scandinavian journal of medicine and science in sport
Scandinavian journal of statistics theory and applications
Sedimentology
Social science quarterly
Sociological inquiry
Sociological quarterly
Sociological review
Sociological review monograph
Sociological theory – Cambridge
Studies in applied mathematics
Systematic entomology
Teachers college record
Teaching statistics
Tellus. Series A
Tellus. Series B
Transactions in GIS
Veterinary anaesthesia and analgesia
Veterinary and comparative oncology
Veterinary dermatology
Veterinary ophthalmology
Veterinary radiology and ultrasound
Veterinary surgery
Weed research – Oxford
Yale review
Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education
Zoologica scripta
Zoological journal of the Linnaean Society
Zygon – journal of religion and science