OSU Libraries has a trial of the Public Affairs Index database. This trial will last through February 20, 2009.

Public Affairs Index (PAI) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of global contemporary public policy issues ranging from public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, to international conflict and natural disasters. It draws on a diverse array of scholarly publications, conference papers, government documents and current reference works to provide up-to-date information on the broad range of topics of concern to the world today.

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OSU Libraries has a trial of the ABC-CLIO History Reference Online collection. This trial will run through September 20, 2008.

ABC-CLIO History Reference Online is a collection 585 electronic books on a variety of history and other humanities topics, including politics, geography, popular culture and religion.

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OSU Libraries has a trial of the Cambridge Histories Online. This trial will run through October 17, 2008.

Cambridge Histories Online brings together over 250 volumes from the renowned Cambridge Histories series. The volumes are grouped into topics, making it quick and easy to search and browse through an array of historical subject areas. The extensive bibliographic referencing and other leading functionality, enhances usability and makes this resource ideal for any type of historical research.

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OSU Libraries has a trial of the Shakespeare Survey. This trial will run through October 17, 2008.

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.

Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year’s textual and critical studies, and of the year’s major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare’s time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start.

The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.

Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time.

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A trial of the London Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 has been set up and will run through May 29, 2008.

The Times Digital Archive is a full-image online archive of every page published by The Times [London] from 1785-1985. The text within the images is fully searchable at the article level. Users can easily search news articles, obituaries, advertising and classifieds — virtually everything that appeared in the newspaper. Results are displayed at the article level and users may view the article — or the full page upon which it appeared.

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OSU Libraries has a current trial of the WestLaw Campus Research database. Campus Research is an easy-to-use online research service that provides college and university students with access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.

Campus Research includes the following:

News and Business Content

• Newspapers. Includes current and archival newspapers like The New York Times, USA Today, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Boston Globe, Financial Times, and hundreds more!
• Magazines. Provides current and archival issues of sought-after sources like Newsweek, the Economist, Consumer Reports, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Spectator, Publishers Weekly, and Business Week.
• Trade Journals. Offers current and archival issues for virtually any discipline. Includes titles like U.S. Banker, Securities Industries News, Accountancy Age, Advertising Age, PR Week, Modern Physician, and many more.
• Company Information. Provides SEC filings and Hoover’s company records, including profiles for thousands of private and public U.S. corporations.
• International Publications. Includes popular international sources like European Report, Middle East Observer and World News Connection.
• Newswires. Get the most current news from more than 400 newswires, including the Associated Press, U.S. Newswire, and numerous international wires.
• Newsletters. Access timely information across many specialties, including Alternative Medicine Alert, Agriculture Chemical News, White House press releases, Wireless News, and many others.
• Broadcast Transcripts. Offers more than 900 television and radio transcripts that includes national and local news content from ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, NBC, PBS, and BBC radio.
• Foreign Language Publications. Search non-English news sources available in Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
• Law Content
• American Jurisprudence 2d (Am Jur 2d). An encyclopedia that provides summary and analysis of all fields of American state and federal law. It contains many citations to cases, statutes, and law review articles. It also includes analysis of the spirit and intent of the courts in construing the law, and Legislative intent in enacting and amending the law.
• American Law Reports (ALR). ALR provides a continually updated series of articles (annotations) on legal topics discussed in key cases. The articles provide objective analysis of different sides of an issue, written in a narrative style.
• More than 700 law reviews and journals. Law reviews are scholary journals published by most accredited law schools. They contain thorough discussions of current issues and trends in the law, with comprehensive analysis by scholars and legal professionals. They are also an excellent source of citations to cases. Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, American Journal of Legal History, Stanford Law Review, and International and Comparative Law Quarterly are just a few of the hundreds of highly respected publications available.
• United States Code Annotated (USCA). USCA combines the official text of the United States Code with relevant cases, historical notes, indexes, cross-references and other annotations.
• All federal and state cases including U.S. Supreme Court cases. Easily accessible through West’s National Reporter System, an exclusive system of reporting federal and state cases that’s editorially enhanced for complete research.
• State statutes and regulations. Includes statutes from all 50 states and D.C. and administrative codes from all 44 states.
• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The full body of federal administrative regulations.
• Federal Register. Includes 50,000 pages of current regulatory, administrative and executive materials generated by key federal entities.

This trial is password-based; please contact your Subject Librarian for the login and password. The trial will end on March 15, 2008. Comments on the trial can be sent through the Database Trial Evaluation Form.

OSU Libraries has a current trial of the APA PsycNET database. PsycNET is the American Psychological Association (APA) platform for their electronic resources including:

• PsycINFO – bibliographic database of scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. PsycINFO covers journals, books, reviews, and dissertations.
• PsycARTICLES – full-text database of journals published by APA and other publishers in subject areas such as applied psychology, health, theory, research, social/personality, and more.
• PsycBOOKS – full-text database of APA books, classic books, and entries from the Encyclopedia of Psychology.
• PsycEXTRA – a gray literature database. Gray literature is material written for professionals and disseminated outside of peer-reviewed journals. Documents include newsletters, magazines, newspapers, technical and annual reports, government reports, consumer brochures, and more.
• and PsycCRITIQUES – full-text database of book and film reviews.

This trial is password-based; please contact your Subject Librarian for the login and password. The trial will end on March 31, 2008. Comments on the trial can be sent through the Database Trial Evaluation Form.

A trial has been set up for the PsychiatryOnline database. This trial will run through February 15, 2008

PsychiatryOnline is a web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR®—the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world—and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of an unsurpassed collection of psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

Included in the database are:

• References including DSM-IV-TR®, DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and its Treatment Companion, and the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
• Journals including The American Journal of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Services
• Textbooks including The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry
• Self-assessment tools for study, board certification and recertification review, and lifelong learning
• Clinical & research news from Psychiatric News

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