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A comprehensive collection of peer-reviewed medical images, The Scientific & Medical ART Imagebase (SMART Imagebase) contains a growing collection of over 20,000 high quality illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, pathology, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other medical topics. Content is peer-reviewed by graduate level medical illustrators and expert-reviewed by physicians.

This OSU Trial runs through 5/4/2014.

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Statistical Abstract of the World A new product from ProQuest, and a companion to their successful Statistical Abstract of the United States. Find aggregated statistical information from approximately 40 countries through a single-search interface, browse and search tables, and download data in a spreadsheet. The information here is not always found easily elsewhere.

This OSU Trial runs through 11/29/2013.

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From CQ Press, the leading publisher of reference works on American politics: The Voting and Elections Collection integrates a wealth of data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide a powerful research and reference tool on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.

This OSU Trial runs through 11/30/2013.

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Music Index

Formerly The Music Index Online by Harmonie Park Press, this database provides comprehensive coverage of the music field and every aspect of the classical and popular worlds of music. With cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for hundreds of periodicals, this resource is an invaluable resource for both the novice and scholar.

Index to Printed Music

With over 425,000 records available for searching, the Index to Printed Music (IPM) provides detailed indexing across a range of categories that span ancient Greek times to the present. It is the only electronic resource for finding individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions, with hundreds of thousands of records of individual music works. The database has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

RIPM Index

Published under the auspices of the International Musicological Society and the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres, the RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals includes exclusive content provided by internationally recognized scholars and editors. It presents a cumulative index to more than 250 printed volumes and nearly 200 periodicals on musical history and culture between published 1766 and 1962.

RIPM Online Archive of Music Periodicals (click here: scroll to bottom of resulting EbscoHost database list)

Accessed through the RIPM Retrospective Index, the Archive is the only extensive collection available online for music periodicals dating from the Early Romantic to the Modern Period. The Archive contains 114 rare journals selected by international specialists, offers an almost daily chronicle of musical activities, and immense possibilities for original research. RIPM Online Archive is a full-text version of journals indexed in RIPM Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals. It is updated with new titles every six months.

These OSU Trials run through 11/30/2013

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OSU Libraries is offering a 30-day trial to Scopus. Scopus, an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, indexes 50 million records, 21,000 titles, and 5,000 publishers. Additionally, it features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Scopus delivers a comprehensive overview of the world’s research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and Arts & Humanities.

This OSU Trial runs through 11/19/2013

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Docuseek2 streams over 340 documentary and social issues films from producers such as Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, and Terra Nova Films. Subjects include varied topics such as politics, agriculture, geography, gender studies, and more.

This OSU Trial runs through 11/30/2013

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Natural Standard provides high quality, evidence-based information on dietary supplements (including herbs, vitamins, and minerals), functional foods, diets, complementary practices (modalities), exercises, and medical conditions. Clients include, but are not limited to: corporations, manufacturers, retail pharmacies, hospitals, universities, organizations and private professional practices.

Natural offers databases on:
- Foods, Herbs and Supplements
  - You will have access to over 1500 professional systematic reviews on vitamins, minerals, functional food, alternative therapies and ingredients
  - Each monograph is supported by over 300 references
  - Each monograph presents every international clinical trial/study that has been published for review and support of health claims
- Health and Wellness
  - Includes over 700 complimentary therapies including diets and modalities (like acupuncture and chiropractic)
- Comparative Effectiveness
  - Includes comprehensive efficacy charts for alternative treatment options
- Chart and Tables
  - Categorizes and classifies groups of herbs and supplements by effect on the patient
    - Ex. Those groups of natural medicines raise blood sugar levels
- Brands and Manufacturers
  - Over 4500 bands and manufacturers are listed
    - Includes manufacturer location and ingredient list linked to those ingredient monographs
- Medical Conditions
  - Over 3,000 searchable medical conditions with comprehensive overviews of each condition and both alternative and traditional treatment options
- Sports Medicine
  - Covering sports related supplements, modalities and conditions (natural products for weight loss, athletic performance enhancement, chiropractic for sports injuries, etc.
A number of interactive point of care “Checkers”allowing the user to immediately identify potential interactions and/or depletions among those various items being taken by a patient
- A powerful tool to support general health and wellness as well as patient education and treatment regimen adherence.

This OSU Trial runs through 10/16/2013

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The Dictionary of Natural Products (DNP) is the only comprehensive and fully-edited database on natural products. It provides the busy scientist with fast access to chemical, physical, bibliographic, and structural data on over 139,000 natural products organized into more than 43,000 -virtually every natural product isolated and reported in the literature. This very useful resource arose as a daughter product of the well-known Dictionary of Organic Compounds (DOC) which, since its inception in the 1930s has, through successive editions, always been a leading source of natural product information.

This OSU Trial runs through 9/7/2013.

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Alexander Street Press: Counseling and Therapy in Video (Volume 1)

This streaming award-winning collection contains more than 400 hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. This classic collection of videos filmed from 1985‒2010 provides an invaluable firsthand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice. With a true grounding in multiculturalism and dozens of therapeutic methods and diagnoses, this collection is essential for counseling and therapy programs across the curriculum—in psychology, social work, education, nursing, divinity studies, health, and medicine. Content is clustered around easy-to-search and easy-to-browse topical subject areas and therapeutic methods. Videos include transcripts and playlist and clip-making tools.

This OSU Trial runs through 9/17/2013.

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The eBook Academic Subscription Collection is a growing eBook complement to Academic Search Complete – covering the same broad spectrum of academic subjects with search results integrated on the EBSCOhost platform. There are more titles from the publishers customers say are most important (e.g. Cambridge University Press, ABC-CLIO, Sage). Since the initial release, EBSCO has added a large number of quality titles and over 50 respected publishers, including Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, Columbia University Press, University of California Press, and more.

This OSU Trial runs through 6/10/2013.

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Category Archives: Trials

Trial Database: Scientific & Medical ART Imagebase (SMART)

Trial Database: Statistical Abstract of the World

Trial Database: CQ Voting and Elections Collection

Trial Databases: Music Index

Trial Resource: Scopus

Trial Streaming Video Resource: Docuseek2

Trial Resource: Natural Standard

Trial Resource: Dictionary of Natural Products

Trial Video Collection – Alexander Street Press: Counseling and Therapy in Video (Volume 1)

Ebook Database Trial: eBook Academic Subscription Collection

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