Mental Measurements Yearbook produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. Tests in Print (TIP), also produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s).
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Trial Access: Accessible Archives
This OSU trial will be available until October 7, 2023. Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.
Accessible Archives is a site devoted to primary source material in American history. Information archived is from leading historical periodicals and books, and includes eyewitness accounts of historical events, vivid descriptions of daily life, editorial observations, commerce as seen through advertisements, and genealogical records. Transcribed individual entries are complete with full bibliographic citations and are organized chronologically. Find materials in such collections as African American Newspapers, The Civil War Collection, Womens’ Magazines & Newspapers, and many more.
Ebook Central Unavailable June 26, 2021
To meet the global demands of their customers, Ebook Central is moving from its current server to Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. This change will help them continue to provide the best user and customer experience possible.
The move to AWS will take place on Saturday June 26 and will require Ebook Central to be offline from 5:00 AM PST to 1:00 PM PST. During that time, the Ebook Central catalog will not be acessible and ebooks will not be available for online reading. Previously-downloaded ebooks will still be available to read offline.
For further information fomr Ebook Central about this scheduled maintenance, see their FAQ page.
Birds of the World: Extended Service Disruption
Birds of the World will be unavailable on November 17, 2020 beginning at 5:00 AM PST and continuing for up to 48 hours.
Trial Access: CQ Press Voting and Elections Collection
CQ Press 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.
The Collection supports course work in campaigns and elections, Congress, and the presidency, including the Advanced Placement course in American Government and Politics and scholarly research in political science and American history.
This OSU trial will be available until November 15, 2020. Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.
Birds of the World: Temporary Service Disruption
On September 15, 2000 from 2:00 AM PST to 11:00 AM PST. Due to server upgrades, all media (photos, videos, sounds) will be temporarily unavailable on the Birds of the World platform.
Trial Access: RIPM Music Peridicals
RIPM provides access to periodicals that reflect the European concert tradition. Resources included are Retrospective Index to Musical Periodicals with Full Text and the Preservation Series: European and North American Music Periodicals with Full Text. These databases collectively provide access to nearly four hundred music journals and more than 1,150,000 full-text pages.
RIPM Jazz Periodicals provides a wide range of access to periodicals that emphasize the value of jazz.
This trial access will be available until May 31, 2020. The publisher has provided this access to facilitate distance learning in response to the COVID-19 circumstances.
Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.
Trial Access: ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication
The ACS Guide to Scholarly Communication provides students, researchers, educators, and librarians with the instruction and advice they need to master the art of scholarly communication. It covers everything from classic journal authoring topics (now completely modernized) such as Organization of Your Article and Peer Review, to styling conventions needed for all scholarly communication, such as Chemical Nomenclature and Effective Writing and Word Usage, to emerging areas of interest in scholarly communication, including Open Access & Open Science, Sharing Data, Communicating Safety Information, and Preprints.
This OSU trial will be available until March 31, 2020. Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.
Now Available: Time, Life Atlantic Monthly (Historical Issues)
Now you can access a wide range of historical issues from 3 magazines that have provided decades of captivating stories. Articles are available in the original full-color page format.
Trial Access: African American newspapers collection
The African American newspapers collection contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. The collection also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.
This OSU trial will be available until November 8, 2019. Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.