Due to essential site maintenance, the Wiley Online Library (Wiley journals) will be unavailable for up to two hours starting at 2AM on Saturday, October 2nd.
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Database Trial: Proquest Digital Microform
OSU Libraries has a trial of Proquest Digital Microfilm. Access to the trial requires a password, please contact your subject librarian to obtain the login information. The trial will run through October 31, 2010.
ProQuest Digital Microfilm provides scanned newspapers in microfilm, accessible around the clock via an intuitive, easy to use, online interface. Researchers can access full-page, cover-to-cover newspaper content from anywhere an internet connection is present. Digital Microfilm allows multiple, simultaneous users from subscribing libraries to scroll through the scanned microfilm as they would with standard microfilm equipment, or they can access the content using metadata: newspaper title, date, and page numbers. Digital Microfilm also allows users to print, crop, email, or save images for later reference. Additionally, Digital Microfilm offers two image resolutions: lower resolution for quick scrolling and navigation, and a higher resolution to make the most of charts and photographs.
Comments on this resource can be submitted using the electronic resources evaluation form.
STAT-USA database discontinued
The STAT-USA Office will cease operation on September 30, 2010. The STAT-USA database will not be available after that date. This includes the State of the Nation and the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) resources.
For more than 25 years, the Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce through the STAT-USA database provided the business community with one place to go to access an extensive collection of U.S. economic and finance data, international trade statistics, and market research reports. Divided into two main areas, State of the Nation (SotN) tracked the U.S. economy while GLOBUS & NTDB provided international coverage with country and market research reports.
We have created a guide that captures the URLs of all the data pages from which STAT-USA pulled information. You can find it on the Library Guides page or click on this tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/3yhjchp
New Environmental News Source: Environment & Energy Publishing
The OSU Libraries have access to Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E). E&E is an important source for comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets. The subscription includes five online publications covering energy, environmental and climate policy: Environment & Energy Daily, Greenwire, ClimateWire, Land Letter and E&E News PM. The subscription also includes E&E TV/Onpoint, a daily interview format that delivers discussions with policy makers, authors and other key people involved with energy and environmental policy.
Access Environment & Energy Daily
Key areas covered by E&E’s more than 45 reporters and editors:
- U.S. federal legislation
- U.S. environmental regulation and federal agencies
- International and U.S. climate policy issues
- Global energy resources and markets
- Alternative energy
- Air and water issues
- Hazardous and toxic substances
- Public lands
- Endangered species
- Mining and agriculture
- Technology
New Database: OnePetro
OnePetro is now available, in part, through a generous donation to OSU Libraries. OnePetro is available to the OSU community through December 2010.
OnePetro.org is a multi-society library that provides a simple way to search for and access a broad range of technical literature related to the oil and gas exploration and production industry. OnePetro currently contains more than 85,000 documents, with more being added frequently.
The following organizations currently have their technical documents available through OnePetro:
- American Petroleum Institute (API)
- American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)
- American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
- Offshore Technology Conference (OTC)
- NACE International (corrosion engineers)
- Petroleum Society of Canada (PETSOC)
- Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
- Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA)
- The Society of Underwater Technology (SUT)
- World Petroleum Council (WPC)
If you have comments regarding the continued availability of this resource beyond December 2010, please contact Andrea.Wirth oregonstate.edu.
Taylor & Francis journals unavailable Tuesday, September 7, 11 PM – 1 AM PDT
The Taylor & Francis journals will be unavailable at 11 PM PDT – 1 AM PDT while Informaworld performs some essential work on the platform.
Database trials: Art Abstracts and Art Full Text
OSU Libraries has a trial of the Art Abstracts and the Art Full Text databases, to compare with our current Art Index subscription. This trial will run through September 30, 2010.
To access the databases, select Art Index from the OSU Libraries’ databases page. On the search page, select either Art Abstracts or Art Full Text before beginning your search.
Art Abstracts provides abstracts to the Art Index indexing for articles publishing from January 1994-present.
Art Full Text includes the indexing and abstracting of Art Abstracts, plus full text of articles from more than 270 periodicals as far back as 1997.
Comments on this database trial can be submitted using the Electronic Resource Evaluation Form.
STAT-USA to cease operations September 30, 2010
The STAT-USA Office of the US Department of Commerce will cease operation on September 30, 2010. The STAT-USA database will not be available after that date. This includes the State of the Nation and the National Trade Data Bank.
STAT-USA has provided a transition page that identifies the sources of the data in the STAT-USA database.
If you have any questions, please contact your subject librarian.
Database Trial: Social Explorer
Oxford University Press has recently acquired the Social Explorer database and is making it available for trial while they are migrating it to their platform. There is both a free edition and the professional edition – access to the full database requires the user to sign in; please contact your subject librarian for the login information. The trial ends August 31, 2010.
Social Explorer is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to historical census data and demographic information. It creates fast, intuitive, and appealing maps and reports to help users visually analyze and understand demography and social change throughout history.
Key features include:
- Contains the entire US Census history from 1790 to 2000, the American Community Survey, and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study from 1980 to 2000 – the most complete census data available on religion in the US
- All annual updates from the American Community Survey to 2008
- Original Census tract-level estimates for 2006 and 2007
- 2002 Carbon Emissions Data from the Vulcan Project
- 39 billion data points, 200,000 variables, and 15,000 interactive maps
- Thematic and interactive maps make it easy to visually explore the entire US census history
- Create reports at the state, county, census tract, block group, and zip code level
- Reports automatically calculate aggregates, percentages, and medians, to save time and eliminate error
- Automatically create slideshows from maps
- Maps are interactive and easily navigable and incorporate a find tool to instantly locate addresses, cities, zip codes, and towns
Database trial: John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera
OSU Libraries has set up a trial of the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. Access to the trial requires a password; please contact your subject librarian to obtain this. The trial will end August 14, 2010.
The John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera is the first-ever electronic research collection of its kind. ProQuest has painstakingly scanned in color a portion of the John Johnson collection that resides in the Bodleian Library of Oxford, England. The resulting database provides direct access to rare primary source materials and evidence of Britain’s cultural, social, industrial and technological heritage.
Comments on this database trial can be submitted using the Electronic Resource Evaluation Form.