The World Bank eLibrary is the World Bank’s collection of 6,000+ books, reports, journals, and working papers including:

• Development Outreach, World Bank Economic Review and World Bank Research Observer journal articles published since 1996
• Development Economics (DEC) policy research working papers published since 1995
• e-books and reports (dating as far as the 1970’s in some cases) plus all new formal publications upon release

All content can be viewed online and downloaded free of DRM (with the exception of a watermark).

This OSU Trial runs through 10/31/2011.

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Govistics is the U.S.’s most comprehensive cost of government database, specializing in local government finance.  Govistics contains a decade of spending data across 8 major categories (e.g. education, public safety, social services) and 33 subcategories (e.g. K-12 education, police, welfare) for 39,000 state, county, and local governments.  Govistics also contains detailed spending data for 15,000 school districts, and its graphical interface helps users track, compare, and contextualize spending.  The data is harmonized, allowing users to perform “apples to apples” comparisons across state and county lines. Users can also download a customized spreadsheet for further analysis.

This OSU Trial runs through 9/25/2011.

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SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SRMO links over 100,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SRMO focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.

This OSU Trial runs through 4/30/2011.

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Access World News Research Collection provides full-text access to The Oregonian. Supports all academic disciplines. Provides unique primary sources not found in other resources. Provides extensive coverage at local, regional, national and international levels. Offers complete electronic editions of thousands of authoritative U.S. and global news sources. Includes thousands of broadcast transcripts, newswires, video clips, and news blogs. Gives over 219 million current and archived articles— growing daily. Features a customizable, map-based interface and powerful search capabilities. Enables students to examine subjects geographically and over time, analyze trends and statistics, and compare perspectives.

This OSU Trial runs through 4/29/2011.

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Oxford Islamic Studies Online (OISO) offers unrivaled online access to the history and culture of Islam and provides full-text access to great Oxford reference and scholarly works, including The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, two classic interpretations of the Qur’an, a Concordance of the Qur’an, What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World.

This OSU Trial runs through 3/7/2011.

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Mergent Online is an Internet-based suite of information resources that enables in-depth business and financial research.

This OSU Trial runs through 3/18/2011.

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Plunkett Research Online provides statistics, trends, and in-depth analysis of industries and the companies that make up those industries.  Besides public companies, it includes information on many international companies, and many private companies.

This OSU Trial runs through 3/15/2011.

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During January 2011, OSU Libraries is trialing ProQuest Newsstand™. This full-text newspaper database provides access to more than 1,200 newspapers. Find the Chicago Tribune here exclusively. Other national titles are: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and The Boston Globe. More than 90 regional, local, and military titles are also included. For many titles backfiles date to 1980s.

The OSU Trial runs through 2/3/11.

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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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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