The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII), provided by the US Geological Survey Biological Informatics Office, is a broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation’s biological resources. The NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools maintained by NBII partners and other contributors in government agencies, academic institutions, non-government organizations, and private industry. NBII partners and collaborators also work on new standards, tools, and technologies that make it easier to find, integrate, and apply biological resources information. Resource managers, scientists, educators, and the general public use the NBII to answer a wide range of questions related to the management, use, or conservation of this nation’s biological resources.

OSU Libraries now has access to the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center as part of the statewide database licensing contract with Gale.

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center pulls together background information and pro & con viewpoints about current social issues. The database includes:

• Nearly 7,000 viewpoint articles
• 41 complete titles from the Information Plus reference program
• More than 275 primary documents
• 300 biographies of social activists and reformers
• Nearly 5,000 statistical tables, charts and graphs
• Nearly 4,600 topic overviews that provide context for the issues
• More than 775 court-case overviews
• 334 profiles of federal agencies and special interest groups
• 2,000 links to reviewed and subject-indexed Web sites
• More than 1,300 images, all hand-selected to support the topics covered
• More than 135 full-text periodicals and newspapers
• Podcasts from the Weekly Presidential Radio Address

JSTOR Plant Science is an online environment that brings together global plants content, tools, and people interested in plant science. It provides access to foundational content vital to plant science – plant type specimens, taxonomic structures, scientific literature, and related materials. They are offering JSTOR Plant Science to all participating institutions worldwide at no cost.

JSTOR Plant Science offers access to botanical and other resources from around the world including:

• The world’s largest database of plant type specimens representing the botanical diversity of the planet. More than 600,000 specimens are available today. When complete, there will be an estimated 2.2 million.
• Over 175,000 scientific research articles and other content dating back hundreds of years from leading academic journals including Kew Bulletin, Mycologia, International Journal of Plant Sciences, Science, PNAS, and others.
• Foundational reference works and books such as The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa, Flowering Plants of South Africa, and illustrations from Curtis’s Botanical Magazine.
• A significant set of correspondence, including Kew’s Directors’ Correspondence which included hand-written letters and memorandum from the senior staff of Kew from 1841 to 1928.
• More than 20,000 paintings, photographs, drawings, and other images.

Green energy-related research and development (R&D) results are now more easily accessible through a new online portal, DOE Green Energy.

The free public portal was launched on the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) within the Office of Science. The site is designed to ease access to green energy R&D information for use by researchers, scientists, educators, students and the general public. Researchers can use the DOE Green Energy portal to speed scientific discovery and innovation; business and industry can use the R&D to stimulate economic growth related to renewable energy. Educators, students, and the public can discover applications of renewable energy science and energy efficiency best practices. The portal provides technical documents from thousands of R&D projects conducted at DOE National Laboratories and by DOE-funded awards at universities.

The EbscoHost databases (including Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Education Research Complete and MLA International Bibliography, been enhanced to include the following:

* Support for the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th Edition.
* Improved support for the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Edition
* Ability for EBSCOhost customers to export bibliographic data in XML format (see this FAQ.)

A number of Gale Databases are now available through the Oregon Statewide Database Licensing Program. There are a large number of databases and they cover a broad range of topics, so here a brief overview of the databases available, organized by broad topics. If we have a similar database in EbscoHost, it is listed for comparison.

General Databases

• Academic OneFile – compare to Academic Search Premier
• InfoTrac OneFile – compare to Masterfile Premier
• InfoTrac Newsstand – compare to Newspaper Source

Business & Economics Databases

• Business & Company Resource Center – includes company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals
• General Business File – compare to Business Source Premier
• Business Economics and Theory Collection – includes a number of journals indexed in EconLit
• Small Business Resource Center – sample business plans, how-to guides, articles and websites

Education – see also K-12 databases below

• Educators Reference Complete – compare to Education Research Complete

Health & Medicine

• Health Reference Center Academic – compare to Health Source Nursing/Academic and Health Source Consumer Edition
• Health & Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module – medical reference materials
• Nursing Resource Center – interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams
• Nursing and Allied Health Collection – articles on all aspects of the Nursing profession

Law

• LegalTrac – compare to Legal Collection
• Criminal Justice Collection – full-text of over 150 legal-related periodicals

Sciences

• Agriculture Collection – full-text includes a number of journals indexed in Agricola
• Computer Database – compare to Computer Source
• Environmental Studies & Policy Collection – includes 200 journals related to environmental issues and policy

Social Sciences & Humanities

• Communication and Mass Media Collection – subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more
• Fine Arts and Music Collection – full-text includes a number of journals in Art Index
• Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure Collection – compare to Hospitality & Tourism Complete
• Psychology Collection – compare to Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

K-12 Resources

• InfoTrac Junior Edition – compare to Middle Search Plus
• InfoTrac Student Edition – compare to MAS Ultra School Edition
• <a href="Junior Reference Collection – reference sources for middle schools; includes curriculum standards
• Kids InfoBits – K-5 database
• Student Resource Center Gold – K-12 reference sources
• Discovering Collection – high school level reference sources, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia; includes curriculum standards

Spanish Language Resources

• Informe – compare to Fuente Academica

Public Library-Oriented Resources

• Culinary Arts Collection – of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information
• Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection – collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture
• Home Improvement Collection -includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more
• Popular Magazines – includes 1000 of the most searched magazine titles from Gale databases

OSU Libraries has established a subscription to Hospitality & Tourism Complete.

Hospitality & Tourism Complete™ covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than 828,000 records, with coverage dating as far back as 1965.

There is full text for more than 480 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books. Full-text periodicals include Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, Current Issues in Tourism, Hotel & Motel Management, International Journal of Tourism Research, Journal of Ecotourism, Journal of Leisure Research, Journal of Sport Tourism, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Leisure Sciences, Leisure Studies, Nation’s Restaurant News, Restaurant Business, Tourism & Hospitality Research, and many more.

Sources are both domestic and international in range and scope, with material collected from countries and regions such as Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia.

OSU Libraries would like to thank the students of OSU Cascades, as their Technology Resource Fees helped pay for this new database.

Sustainability Science Abstracts is part of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database.

Sustainability Science Abstracts was expanded and merged with the Human Population and Natural Resources Management section of ESPM. This new expanded database explores all aspects of sustainable development, human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management. Also covered are the topics of conservation of natural resources, ensuring the attainment and continued satisfaction of human needs in the present as well as maintaining the potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations. This involves the maintenance of species diversity and protection of the habitat/ecosystems they rely upon. The economy is an important aspect of sustainability and should be seen as “a means to an end” not an end in itself. Coverage includes relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from standard peer-reviewed scientific journals. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find gray literature has also been summarized.

Major areas of coverage include:
o Human Population Dynamics
o Population – Environment Relations
o Population Statistics and Policy
o Ecotourism
o Sustainable Living and Consumption
o Environmental Awareness and Education
o Environmental Law, Conventions, & Policy
o Sustainable Resource Base: Atmosphere; Land; Water and Biodiversity
o Economic Drivers
o Sustainable Development and Production
o Sustainable Energy
o Sustainable Transportation/Mobility

Dates of Coverage: 1995 – Current

Environment Abstracts is now included in the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database. Environment Abstracts (formerly Environment Abstracts published by LexisNexis) encompasses all aspects of the impact of people and technology on the environment and the effectiveness of remedial policies and technologies. As of 1994, the database also provides expanded coverage of energy-related issues.

Environment Abstracts indexes more than 950 journals published in the U.S. and abroad. The database also covers conference papers and proceedings, special reports from international agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, associations and private corporations. Other materials selectively indexed include significant monographs, government studies and newsletters.

Subject Areas:

* Agriculture
* Air pollution
* Control technologies
* Endangered species
* Energy
* Environmental design
* Environmental education
* Environmental law and policy
* Environmental safety
* Geophysical and climate chance
* Global warming
* International environmental policy
* Land use and pollution
* Marine pollution
* Noise pollution
* Population
* Population studies
* Radiological contamination
* Resource management
* Solid and toxic waste
* Sustainable development
* Toxicological effects
* Transportation
* Waste management
* Water pollution
* Wildlife / biodiversity

Dates of Coverage: 1975 – current