ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on Saturday, June 30, 2012. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance to install the latest enhancements to the ProQuest platform. The window will take place from Saturday, June 30, 2012, at 9:00 PM PST to Sunday, July 1, 2012 at 7:00 AM PST All ProQuest databases will be offline during this time-period.
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Archives Now Available: New York Times and Los Angeles Times
Back Issues of The New York Times (1858-2008) and The Los Angeles Times (1881- 1988) are now available through ProQuest.
Trial Database: Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print
Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook™ (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. This resource also includes the complete Tests in Print database which is also produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska. Tests in Print (TIP) 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). A score index permits users to identify what is being measured by each test.
This OSU Trial runs through 6/12/2012.
Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.
Trial Database: Mental Measurements Yearbook
Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook™ (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.
This OSU Trial runs through 6/12/2012.
Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.
Trial Database: Health and Psychosocial Instruments
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI), produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, is a comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments. Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences. Additionally, instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior and Education are included. Records contained in HaPI provide information on questionnaires, interview schedules, vignettes/scenarios, coding schemes, rating and other scales, checklists, indexes, tests, projective techniques, and more.
This OSU Trial runs through 6/12/2012.
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Trial Database: Credo Reference
With Credo Reference, you get content from hundreds of reference books covering every major subject. There are over 3 million entries, 200,000+ images (art, diagrams, maps and photos), and over 100,000 audio pronunciation files and sound clips. The content is enriched by a network of cross-reference links that cut across topics and titles to give you accurate, contextual results. Try out the concept map in addition to basic and advanced searching to find references that meet your needs.
This OSU Trial runs through 5/31/2012.
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Trial Database: Access Engineering
AccessEngineering includes renowned engineering handbooks including fully interactive versions of Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook, Marks’ Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain, as well as Schaum’s Outlines. Recently redesigned, the AccessEngineering interface offers powerful new search tools, improved navigation, and 24/7 global engineering news, and provides users with faster, more accurate, and more relevant searches.
This OSU Trial runs through 5/12/2012.
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Trial Database: EBSCO eBook Academic Collection
EBSCO eBook Academic Subscription provides access to thousands of ebooks. Integrated into the EBSCOhost platform, EBSCO ebooks are easily discoverable alongside the content in Academic Search Premier and other familiar EBSCO databases. The collection covers a broad range of subject matter by important publishers such as Springer, Wiley, CUP, ABC-CLIO, and Sage and more. Books can be view online or downloaded to eReaders (not including the Kindle).
This OSU Trial runs through 5/31/2012.
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Now Available: e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection
OSU Libraries has purchased the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection which includes access to over 1,300 backlist titles and at least 100 new electronic books published by Duke University Press. Duke, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher, is internationally recognized as a prominent publisher of books in the humanities and social sciences.
Now Available:Material ConneXion
Material ConneXion is the largest global resource of new materials. The Library houses over 1,400 new and innovative materials representing eight categories: polymers, glass, ceramics, carbon-based materials, cement-based materials, metals, natural materials and natural material derivatives; featuring truly cutting-edge materials and applications.