OSU Libraries is now trialing BrowZine a service for iPad by Third Iron.  After installing BrowZine you can easily browse and read OSU Libraries and open access journals. BrowZine’s interface creates an enhanced browsing and reading experience. You can mark your favorite journals and articles and save journals onto the “shelf” display. Additional tasks also available. ProfHacker recently reviewed it. (see Figure 1.)

 

This OSU Trial runs through 7/15/2013.

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BrowZine

SpringerMaterials – The Landolt-Börnstein Database is a systematic comprehensive database of selected and critically assessed data in the physical sciences. You will have access to more than 250,000 substances & material systems, 3,000 properties and more than 1,2 million literature references.

This OSU Trial runs through 6/30/2013.

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Similar to the Science Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index provides quick and powerful access to the bibliographic and citation information needed to find research data, analyze trends, journals, and researchers. It indexes over 1,700 of the world’s leading arts and humanities journals.

This OSU Trial runs through 5/15/2013.

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Access an array of data across subjects and regions, providing a comprehensive picture of research output to understand data in context and maximize research efforts. The Data Citation Index provides a single point of access to quality research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world.  Users can:

  • Discover and attribute — or receive — credit for the creation of scholarly digital research data
  • Pinpoint primary research by understanding the impact of the scholarly research it supports
  • Measure the contribution of digital research in specific disciplines and identify potential collaborators

This OSU Trial runs through 5/15/2013.

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The IMD database, World Competitiveness Online, analyzes and ranks the ability of nations to create and maintain an environment that sustains the competitiveness of enterprises. Countries are ranked by four broad categories: business efficiency, infrastructure, economic performance and government efficiency; there are 300 sub-categories. Locate country profiles as well as consolidated rankings.

 

This OSU Trial runs through 4/30/2013.

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Legal Source is an excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, and others involved with the law. Providing full-text coverage of the world’s most respected scholarly law journals, Legal Source is the authoritative source for information on current issues, studies and trends in the legal world. The collection includes over 1,200 full-text journals and over 2.5 million records, including book reviews and case citations. Legal Source offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment.

This OSU Trial runs through 4/30/2013.

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Trial access to Business Expert Press ebooks is available until March 23, 2013. This collection of 160 titles features curriculum-focused content for advanced business students. Topics covered include accounting, entrepreneurship and small business management, human resources and organizational behavior, international business, marketing, management, supply and operations management, and other core business topics.

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ProQuest Newsstand provides exclusive access to 85 full-text international and national newspapers from the world-leading news and information provider, Gannett. Core titles include The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, The Guardian, El Norte, Jerusalem Post, and South China Morning Post. An additional 7 U.S. military titles will be available on a non-exclusive basis. ProQuest Newsstand’s detailed indexing helps researchers quickly find the news they need; covers complete bibliographic information along with subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas.

This OSU Trial runs through 10/31/2012.

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AccessScience 2.0 is a top-to-bottom redesign of the premiere online science platform, featuring fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition. The new generation of AccessScience gathers and synthesizes vast amounts of information, and organizes it to give you fast, easy and accurate access to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology. It’s easier than ever to find what you’re looking for and put it to use quickly.

This OSU Trial runs through 9/17/2012.

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As one of the world’s largest repositories of U.S. Government-sponsored research results, the new National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) V3.0 offers fast and easy access to more than 2.2 million titles, with links to over 700,000 corresponding digitized full-text technical reports.

Whether using the fast and easy Quick Search interface or the powerful Advanced Search feature of the National Technical Reports Library V3.0; the new NTRL platform provides improved navigation using faceted search (by Keyword, Source, Subject, Document Type, etc.); a variety of hypertext links (author name, descriptor, etc.); a powerful Advanced Search option; and more.

This OSU Trial runs through 8/21/2012.

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