In the past, RSS reader/aggregators such as Bloglines & NewsGator were often unable to recognize RSS feeds from our databases and electronic journals because our III proxy server changed the URL, imbedding additional text. With our switch to EZProxy, this is no longer an issue and the RSS feeds should work.
More information on RSS feeds and readers is available on this Keeping Current with Research: RSS page.
The Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA) database on the Ebsco platform is now available through our Ebsco profiles and not solely on Ebsco’s free platform. This change allows us to use all of the features of our other Ebsco databases, including Get This Item links.
ISI has made several enhancements to their products.
The next time you access ISI Web of Knowledge resources, you’ll find enhancements that provide you with totally new options for research:
The statewide contract for the Oregonian ends July 31 and will not be renewed due to a massive price increase. Access to Oregonian articles will continue to be available through LexisNexis Academic.
We are experiencing problems accessing Zoological Record on the CSA Illumina platform. We are currently waiting for a response from CSA. You can still access Zoological Record on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform. Zoological Record is again available on the CSA platform
Web of Science is the web version of Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). Web of Science accesses a multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article’s cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
Coverage for these databases has now been extended back to 1970 for both the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index. The library is grateful for funds donated to Friends of the Library that were used to help make this purchase possible.
OSU Libraries has a trial of the INSPEC database on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform. This trial is to evaluate the Web of Knowledge platform as an alternative to our current subscription to INSPEC on the Ebscohost platform.
INSPEC trial on ISI Web of Knowledge. This trial will end Friday, February 29, 2008
To compare with our current subscription, you can search INSPEC on the Ebscohost platform.
Published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), INSPEC covers physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering and information technology. More than 6,000,000 abstract records and 330,000 new abstracts, 4,000 journals and 2,000 conference proceedings added each year. Each record contains an English-language title and descriptive abstract, together with full bibliographic details which include the journal title, author’s name and affiliation and the language of the original document. Coverage is from 1969-present.
If you look at this resource during the trial, please fill out a Trial Evaluation Form
OSU Libraries now has access to The Charleston Advisor. Access is available from Vol. 1 (1999) to the present.
The Center for Research Libraries and the editors of The Charleston Advisor (TCA) have begun to work together to expand and enhance The Charleston Advisor as a source of trustworthy and authoritative evaluations of electronic scholarly resources and services. By working together CRL and TCA expect to make available to the collection development community more analytical information about electronic resources and in-depth analysis of the archiving provisions that stand behind those resources.
Beginning with the current (January 2008) issue librarians at all CRL member institutions will henceforth have access to TCA. IP ranges for CRL members have been forwarded to TCA, and even CRL institutions that have not previously subscribed now have online access to the TCA through CRL. TCA will phase out its subscription fees for CRL institutions. Those who have already renewed their TCA subscriptions will begin to receive TCA gratis through CRL when their current subscription period ends.
CRL is happy to make this essential collection development tool available to you and hope that it yields significant benefits for your institution.
OSU Libraries now has an alternative interface for the BIOSIS Previews and Zoological Record databases. These databases are still available on the old platforms, but they are also available on the Thomson Scientific Web of Knowledge platform.
BIOSIS Previews (Biological Abstracts)
Zoological Record
On the Web of Knowledge platform, it is possible to search these databases simultaneously with the Web of Science (Science Citation Index) database through the All Databases option.
MediaMark MRI+. The publisher, Mediamark Research Inc., is the leading provider of magazine audience data to the advertising and marketing communities. This database provides summary tables of key audience and product usage data from their national probability sample of 25,000+ households. NOTE: You must create a free account before you can use this database.