The Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development examines three key life stages from a sociological perspective, exploring how enduring experiences, as well as transitions and events such as childcare, education, stress, marriage, career, addiction, friendship, parenthood, disease, spirituality, and retirement influence the individual’s life course. The life stages examined are: Childhood and Adolescence; Adulthood; and Later Life.

The Encyclopedia of the Great Depression encompasses nearly two decades of American history, beginning with the farm crisis of the mid-1920s, through the 1929 stock market crash, the gradual recovery during the 1930s with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and World War II. This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary encyclopedia features entries on depression-era politics, government, business, economics, literature, the arts, society and culture.

The OSU Libraries has a trial for the NBC News Archives on Demand.  The trial will be available until 11/30/2010.

NBC News Archives on Demand contains thousands of professionally made multimedia content archived in easily searchable video collections that are updated regularly: News footage of historic and current events. Primary source documents, articles and political cartoons. Photographs, images, charts and graphs.  Critical analysis and mini-documentaries covering topics across academic disciplines.

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NBC News Archives on Demand (Higher Ed) is specifically tailored to the needs of college and university students and instructors. Comprised of 26 collections including Biology, Psychology, Forensic Sciences, Environmental Sciences, U.S. History, Business, Economics, Urban Studies, Women’s Studies, and many more.

    * Universal Newsreels from 1930s – 1960s

    * Primary source documents from 1600s – Present

    * Current events updated regularly

    * Downloadable and embeddable videos

    * Personalized playlists for research

    * Revolutionary flippable media player

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The OSU Libraries has a trial for the Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection of the Henry Stewart Talks.  The trial will be available until 1/7/2011.

The Biomedical & Life Sciences collection provides access to over 1,100 online seminar style talks containing the latest research, developments as well as the fundamentals presented by the world’s leading authorities in their respective fields including a number of Nobel Laureates.

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The OSU Libraries has a trial to Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI).  The trial is available through November 13th.

HaPI is a comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments. Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.

Additionally, instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior and Education are included. Records contained in HaPI provide information on questionnaires, interview schedules, vignettes/scenarios, coding schemes, rating and other scales, checklists, indexes, tests, projective techniques, and more.

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