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.

In preparation for the upcoming ProQuest Ebook Central launch, the ProQuest EBL platform will be unavailable for up to three hours duringĀ September 15, 2015 to combine ebrary and EBL content into a single new back-end system. This update means that when Ebook Central launches, it will have all the content and access models that EBL and ebrary have today.

The EBL Patron Interface and EBL LibCentral will not be available September 15, 3:00 – 6:00 pm (PST)

The World Cinema Collection contains over 380 streaming feature films from around the globe. From the silent era to contemporary films, this collection spans over 100 years of international films from Europe, Japan, America, Africa, Latin America, India, China, the Middle East and more. This collection is a useful resource for studying the history of cinema, learning about the cultures of various countries, or improving foreign language skills.

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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