OSU Libraries has set up a trial for the Chronicle of Higher Education. This trial will run through November 15, 2007.

The Chronicle of Higher Education is an important source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings and more.

A trial has been set up for the SimplyMap database. SimplyMap is an Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. The trial will run through October 31, 2007.

You will need to create a personal workspace to use the database during the trial. Instructions are on the home page of the database.

The trial provides access to the EASI ® Standard Package, which includes data from the year 2000, 2006 Estimates, 2011 Projections, and the MRI & EASI Life Stage Clusters.

The Standard Package incorporates the following data:
Demographic Variables
Retail Sales, Store Groups, and Food Service Variables
EASI Sales and Other Potential Variables
EASI Quality of Life Variables
Consumer Price Index Variables
General Employment (by Place of Work)
General Establishment (by Place of Work)
Detailed Employment (by Place of Work)
Detailed Establishments (by Place of Work)
Detailed Consumer Expenditure Variables
EASI Profile Variables
Ancestry Tabulations

Mediamark Research (MRI) produces current estimates of usage and consumption (propensity) for thousands of very specific and detailed products, including actual brand data, details of frequency of usage, and more. Our data provider EASI ® (Easy Analytic Software, Inc) annually prepares estimates for about 3,000+ MRI categories of propensities using their updated demographic estimates. EASI’s models use their own Block Group demographic estimates to update these potential results (propensity to buy, expenditures, etc.).

EASI/Mediamark Research Inc. (MRI) Propensity Data incorporates the following data:
EASI/MRI Automotive
EASI/MRI Beverages
EASI/MRI Sports
EASI/MRI Ailments, Remedies
EASI/MRI Apparel
EASI/MRI Appliances
EASI/MRI Attitudes/Lifestyles
EASI/MRI Baby
EASI/MRI Computers
EASI/MRI Electronics
EASI/MRI Family Restaurants
EASI/MRI Fast Food
EASI/MRI Financial
EASI/MRI Grocery
EASI/MRI Insurance
EASI/MRI Internet
EASI/MRI Leisure
EASI/MRI Media
EASI/MRI Personal Care
EASI/MRI Pets
EASI/MRI Purchasing
EASI/MRI Telephony
EASI/MRI Travel
EASI/MRI Video

Life Stage Clusters are a neighborhood classification system based on the crucial factors (84 Possible Life Stages based upon: Age of Head of Households; Marital Status; and Household Income) that determine life’s key decisions.

OSU Libraries has established a trial of Morningstar Library Edition (login=oregonstate; password=library). This database combines fund and stock information and includes:

• 16,000+ mutual funds
• 100+ ETFs
• 6,000+ stocks from NYSE, AMEX,
  Nasdaq, and OTC exchanges
• 250 screenable fund datapoints
• 450 screenable stock datapoints
• 2,000 Fund Analyst Reports
• 1,500+ Stock Analyst Reports

This trial will end June 16, 2007.

OSU Libraries has a trial of several music databases produced by Alexander Street Press. These trials will run through April 11, 2007. The trial is IP-based and can be accessed from computers on the OSU campus in Corvallis.

Classical Music Library
Classical Music Library is a multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Coverage of repertoire is increasing as new labels are added (currently over 32 labels), with a particular focus on content that meets the needs of educators and students. Includes biographical material on composers.

African American Song
African American Song documents the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. It features some 16,000 tracks of great historical recordings from Document Records. This great collection features recordings from the first half of the 20th century and includes iconic artists such as The Fisk Jubilee Singers, Memphis Minnie, Blind Willie McTell and Huddie Ledbetter.

Smithsonian Global Sound
Smithsonian Global Sound includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

A trial has been set up for Cabell’s directories for Educational Curriculum & Methods and Educational Psychology & Administration. These are directories for the respective fields which provide current contact information (addresses, phone, e-mail and websites) for a large number of journals. Also, the directories include information on publication guidelines and review information when available.

The directories are intended to help users select those journals that are most likely to publish their manuscript. To further assist in organizing and preparing manuscripts, each directory includes extensive information on the style and format of most journals. Furthermore, each directory describes the type of review process used by the editor(s) of a journal, number of reviewers, acceptance rate, time required for review, availability of reviewers’ comments, fees charged to review or publish the manuscript, copies required and manuscript topics.

Trial ends March 2, 2007

To access the trial, please get the login and password from your Library Subject Specialist. The URL for the trial is http://www.cabells.com. Click on the Members link on the lower left and enter the login and password to access the directories.

A trial of the Education Research Complete database will run through November 30, 2006.

Topics covered in this database 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.