Due to necessary system maintenance being performed by their host provider, EBL will be unavailable for 5-15 minutes during the following scheduled time:
USA (Pacific): 20:00 – 21:00 December 22nd, 2010
Monthly Archives: December 2010
Contemporary Women’s Issues Discontinued
As of January 2011, OSU Libraries will no longer supply access to the Contemporary Women’s Issues (CWI) database.
Last spring, the vendor for Contemporary Women’s Issues, OCLC, announced it is no longer supporting this database. Usage has steadily declined from when the library started recording in 1999. CWI was most used in 2000—there were 1042 searches. In 2010, there was half that-571 searches. Compare this to Women’s Studies International which the library added in 2008. In 2010 there were 2216 searches.
Much of the content in CWI can be found elsewhere: library catalogs, the open web and the libraries’ other databases, in particular Ebsco.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index Discontinued
As of January 2011, OSU Libraries will no longer supply access to the Arts & Humanities Index (A&HI) database.
Last spring, the vendor for A&HI, OCLC, announced it is no longer supporting this database. Since 2002, usage has steadily declined. Add to this that just over 60% of the titles indexed in A&HI are also indexed in other library databases (Ebsco, Project Muse). Thus OSU Libraries will not seek another vendor at this time.
Now available online: Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development
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.
Now available online: Encyclopedia of the Great Depression
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.
EBL Down for Maintenance December 8th
Due to necessary system maintenance being performed by their host provider, EBL will be unavailable for 5-15 minutes during the following scheduled time:
USA (Pacific): 20:00 – 21:00 December 8th, 2010