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Now Available: ImportGenius
ImportGenius.com now provides Oregon State University students and faculty with the largest data set on the activities of companies involved in international trade. The company collects and organizes hundreds of millions of shipping manifests and customs records from government agencies and private companies around the world. Students and faculty can now access these datasets to research private and public companies to find out what they import and export, learn who their trading partners are, analyze industry trends, and more.
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Now Available: JSTOR Arts & Sciences Archives (III, V, VI)
We have acquired access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences Collections III, V, and VI. With these Collections, online archives of over 600 additional journals (some dating back to the mid-1800’s) are now available to the OSU community.
Click the link below to view the titles included within these and our many other licensed JSTOR Collections:
http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://www.jstor.org/action/collectionsAvailable
ProQuest: Down for Maintenance (8/24-25)
On August 24, 2013, ProQuest will make storage infrastructure improvements to accommodate a growing number of users.
An eight hour (8) maintenance window is needed to perform the necessary infrastructure maintenance, lasting from August 24, 7:00 PM PST – through August 25, 4:00 AM PST.
During this time all ProQuest databases will be unavailable.
EBL: Down for Maintenance
Scheduled EBL Platform maintenance August 10th 2013
The EBL platform will be unavailable, due to a platform upgrade, at the following time:
- PDT US – Saturday August 10th 2013 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Trial Resource: Dictionary of Natural Products
The Dictionary of Natural Products (DNP) is the only comprehensive and fully-edited database on natural products. It provides the busy scientist with fast access to chemical, physical, bibliographic, and structural data on over 139,000 natural products organized into more than 43,000 -virtually every natural product isolated and reported in the literature. This very useful resource arose as a daughter product of the well-known Dictionary of Organic Compounds (DOC) which, since its inception in the 1930s has, through successive editions, always been a leading source of natural product information.
This OSU Trial runs through 9/7/2013.
Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.
Now Available: Chronicling America
Search America’s historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
ScienceDirect: Scheduled Maintenance (7/20)
ScienceDirect will be unavailable for 30 minutes due to scheduled maintenance on Saturday, July 20 4:00 PM until 4:30 PM PST. It is also possible that there may be service disruptions such as slower response times and unexpected outages throughout the day.
Trial Video Collection – Alexander Street Press: Counseling and Therapy in Video (Volume 1)
Alexander Street Press: Counseling and Therapy in Video (Volume 1)
This streaming award-winning collection contains more than 400 hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. This classic collection of videos filmed from 1985‒2010 provides an invaluable firsthand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice. With a true grounding in multiculturalism and dozens of therapeutic methods and diagnoses, this collection is essential for counseling and therapy programs across the curriculum—in psychology, social work, education, nursing, divinity studies, health, and medicine. Content is clustered around easy-to-search and easy-to-browse topical subject areas and therapeutic methods. Videos include transcripts and playlist and clip-making tools.
This OSU Trial runs through 9/17/2013.
Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.
Now Available: Founders Online
Founders Online searches correspondence and other writings of six major shapers of the United States: George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams (and family), Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison and includes over 119,000 fully transcribed, searchable documents, fully annotated, from the authoritative, federally funded Founding Fathers Papers projects.
Learn more here: http://founders.archives.gov/help/FAQ