The Gale Virtual Reference Library has new reference titles available through the Statewide Database Licensing Group contract. The following titles are included with this deal:

• American Decades Primary Sources
• Ancient Civilizations Reference Library
• Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
• Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed.
• Encyclopedia of Religion
• Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics
• Encyclopedia of World Cultures
• UXL Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, 2nd ed.
• Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia

Ebsco has dropped the Clinical Pharmacology database and now provides the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to 1300 up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs in the Health Source databases: Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition and Health Source: Consumer Edition.

Open WorldCat has added two new features:

SORTING SEARCH RESULTS
Web users who perform searches at WorldCat.org can now sort results using several indices. By default, search results are returned sorted by relevance. Additionally, users can now sort by author (alphabetical by last name), title (alphabetical), and date (newest-to-oldest and oldest-to-newest).

Result sorting joins the recently added “Refine Your Search” faceted browse feature in providing users the ability to better examine large result sets.

CITATION FEATURE HELPS STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS
Item records in WorldCat’s open-Web interface now include a “Cite this Item” link that provides bibliographic citations in five common styles: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA and Turabian. Displayed in a separate pop-up window, the citations follow the reference standard for each style.

The citations window cautions users that “formatting rules within a style can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study,” and that they should apply the specific requirements of a reviewing body.

OSU Libraries has a new subscription to the Ebsco database Education Research Complete, a bibliographic and full text database covering scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. Education Research Complete also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals, as well as full text for more than 750 journals. This database also includes full text for more than 100 books and monographs, and full text for numerous education-related conference papers. Education Research Complete is replacing the Wilson database Education Full Text. Other education-related electronic resources available through OSU Libraries include ERIC, the Professional Development Collection, the Vocational and Career Collection and the Encyclopedia of Education.

We have moved our ANSI standards collection to the digital world. With our new subscription to the ANSI standards through Information Handling Services (IHS), you can search and obtain over 1,300 ANSI standards.

When you go to the IHS site, click on the Specs & Standards link. If you click on the Quick Searches tab on the upper left, you can limit the search to the titles included in our subscription. This subscription is only for ANSI standards – if you need a combined subscription (e.g., an ANSI/ASME standard), please contact Margaret Mellinger at margaret.mellinger@oregonstate.edu for assistance in acquiring the standard.

Very Important! Remember to logout after you finish using the ANSI standards database. We have a limited number of simultaneous users and other users might be locked out of the database. The logout button is in the upper right corner of the screen.