The Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development examines three key life stages from a sociological perspective, exploring how enduring experiences, as well as transitions and events such as childcare, education, stress, marriage, career, addiction, friendship, parenthood, disease, spirituality, and retirement influence the individual’s life course. The life stages examined are: Childhood and Adolescence; Adulthood; and Later Life.
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Now available online: Encyclopedia of the Great Depression
The Encyclopedia of the Great Depression encompasses nearly two decades of American history, beginning with the farm crisis of the mid-1920s, through the 1929 stock market crash, the gradual recovery during the 1930s with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and World War II. This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary encyclopedia features entries on depression-era politics, government, business, economics, literature, the arts, society and culture.
EBL Down for Maintenance December 8th
Due to necessary system maintenance being performed by their host provider, EBL will be unavailable for 5-15 minutes during the following scheduled time:
USA (Pacific): 20:00 – 21:00 December 8th, 2010
Trial: NBC News Archive
The OSU Libraries has a trial for the NBC News Archives on Demand. The trial will be available until 11/30/2010.
NBC News Archives on Demand contains thousands of professionally made multimedia content archived in easily searchable video collections that are updated regularly: News footage of historic and current events. Primary source documents, articles and political cartoons. Photographs, images, charts and graphs. Critical analysis and mini-documentaries covering topics across academic disciplines.
Access NBC News Archives on Demand
NBC News Archives on Demand (Higher Ed) is specifically tailored to the needs of college and university students and instructors. Comprised of 26 collections including Biology, Psychology, Forensic Sciences, Environmental Sciences, U.S. History, Business, Economics, Urban Studies, Women’s Studies, and many more.
* Universal Newsreels from 1930s – 1960s
* Primary source documents from 1600s – Present
* Current events updated regularly
* Downloadable and embeddable videos
* Personalized playlists for research
* Revolutionary flippable media player
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Trial: Henry Stewart Talks – Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection
The OSU Libraries has a trial for the Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection of the Henry Stewart Talks. The trial will be available until 1/7/2011.
The Biomedical & Life Sciences collection provides access to over 1,100 online seminar style talks containing the latest research, developments as well as the fundamentals presented by the world’s leading authorities in their respective fields including a number of Nobel Laureates.
Access the Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection
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Elsevier/ScienceDirect maintenance Nov 7th and Nov 13th
ScienceDirect (Elsevier journals) will be offline and unavailable for approximately 4 hours on November 7th and 6 hours on November 13th. During this time, upgrades will be implemented and maintenance performed.
November 7th: off line from 11:00pm to 3:00am
November 13th: offline from 5:00am to 11:00am
ProQuest/CSA database maintenance Oct 30th-31st
ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on October 30th, 2010. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, 30 October, 2010, at 19:00 PDT to Sunday, 31 October, 2010 at 07:00 PDT.
This includes CSA Illumina products as well.
Wiley Online Library service interruption Oct 30th @ 2:00am
Due to essential site maintenance, the Wiley Online Library (Wiley journals) may be interrupted for up to two hours starting at 2AM on Saturday, October 30th.
(Update) Project Muse: off-campus access has been restored
Please report any access issues to e-resources@oregonstate.edu.
Database Trial: Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)
The OSU Libraries has a trial to Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI). The trial is available through November 13th.
HaPI 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.
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