This OSU Trial runs through 12/1/2015.

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PrivCo.com is a useful source for business and financial research on non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies. There are currently profiles for over 850,000 firms, 20,000 investors and 100,000 private market deals, with information and in-house analysis added daily. Use for doing company, investor, M&A, venture capital funding, or private equity research. Searchable by advanced criteria in all categories. Entrepreneurship programs will like the ability to search for investors, or private companies in specific, emerging industries. Job seekers may use the venture capital funding search to search for companies that are raising funding and most likely hiring.

This OSU Trial runs through 11/16/2015.

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Passport (from Euromonitor International) is an online market research database you can use to understand the global business environment. It includes industry research and market reports (including Consumer Health, Consumer Electronics, Retailing, and Travel & Tourism), global company profiles, country reports, statistics, and more. (Note that some functionality is not available in the trial database.)

 

This OSU Trial runs through 10/30/2015.

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Music Online: Listening is a comprehensive, high-quality streaming audio collection of music. This ever-expanding collection includes the complete content of Alexander Street’s collections in popular music, classical music, jazz, American song, world music, and the Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries. For even more detailed information about the content included in this collection, click HERE.

LGBT Studies in Video is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. This first-of-its-kind collection features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics. LGBT Studies in Video provides students and researchers across disciplines a multi-content perspective on the LGBT political, cultural and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. It also provides key resources of interest to students and researchers in sociology, anthropology, psychology, counseling, history, political science, gender studies, cultural studies, and religious studies.

 

LGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. The collection illuminates the lives of lesbians, gays, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community with content including selections from The National Archives in Kew, materials collected by activist and publisher Tracy Baim from the mid-1980s through the mid-2000s, the Magnus Hirschfeld and Harry Benjamin collections from the Kinsey Institute, periodicals such as En la Vida and BLACKlines, select rare works from notable LGBT publishers including Alyson Books and Cleis Press, as well as mainstream trade and university publishers.

 

These OSU Trials runs through 8/31/2015.

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Everyday Life & Women in America (1800-1920) provides access to rare primary source material on American social, cultural, and popular history from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of fully searchable images (with transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes, emphasizing conduct of life and domestic management literature, the daily lives of women and men, and contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.

Defining Gender (1450-1910) includes over 120,000 pages of original documents relating to Gender Studies. The images are sourced from British and European libraries and archives, including a strong core of document images from the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the British Library.

These OSU Trials run through 7/31/2015.

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The 60 MINUTES: 1997-2014 online collection provides 350 hours of high-definition video from television’s most preeminent news program, including hundreds of segments not available anywhere else in the world. This resource also includes 175 hours of bonus segments from the popular CBS News program Sunday Morning.

This OSU Trial has been extended through 6/30/2015.

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A variety of ProQuest databases are now available to the OSU community for a trial period. This collection includes ProQuest Central (with ABI-Inform, Newsstand, and much of the Social Science Collection included), ProQuest Public Health, eLibrary, SIRS Discoverer, SIRS Researcher, ProQuest Library Science, Environmental Science Collection, PRISMA and many more. Click here for a complete directory that includes access links and detailed descriptions for all of the trial databases available.

This OSU Trial runs through 5/06/2015.

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The 60 MINUTES: 1997-2014 online collection provides 350 hours of high-definition video from television’s most preeminent news program, including hundreds of segments not available anywhere else in the world. This resource also includes 175 hours of bonus segments from the popular CBS News program Sunday Morning.

This OSU Trial runs through 5/24/2015.

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GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is a resource for research and communications in the earth sciences built on a core database of peer-reviewed journals. The database gives researchers a single point of access to 45 full-text scholarly journals plus specialized searching capabilities and links to millions of relevant resources hosted elsewhere on the Web.

 

GSW also offers an e-book collection dedicated to the study of the earth sciences.  The full e-book collection contains more than 1,000 earth science titles from 10 leading society publishers.

 

This OSU Trial runs through 3/31/2015.

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The Master Academic Collection  and Career & Technical Education Collection (request access credentials) combine to provide over 20,000 streaming videos covering a wide range of categories. The Master Academic Collection covers subject areas such as health & medicine, the humanities, social sciences, biology, engineering, geology, geography, physical sciences, mathematics, economics, and business. These high-quality videos are produced by well-known production companies such as BBC,  PBS, A&E, National Geographic, ABC, NBC, TED, CBC, and more.  The Career & Technical Education Collection provides an assortment of videos covering topics such as career & job search, technical education, guidance & counseling, and family & consumer sciences.  Featuring exclusive producers such as Shopware, Cambridge Educational, and Meridian Education, this collection also meets Perkins guidelines.

This OSU Trial runs through 9/14/2014.

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