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Now Available: PAIS International

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 The PAIS International database covers a broad array of public policy subjects including international relations, science and technology, and social conditions.  PAIS also includes historical topical coverage on events such as watergate, the cold war, and the women’s movement.  The index covers journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.(1915-Current)


Trial Database: AccessScience (McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology)

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AccessScience 2.0 is a top-to-bottom redesign of the premiere online science platform, featuring fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill’s Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition. The new generation of AccessScience gathers and synthesizes vast amounts of information, and organizes it to give you fast, easy and accurate access to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology. It’s easier than ever to find what you’re looking for and put it to use quickly.

This OSU Trial runs through 9/17/2012.

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Accessing full text from ERIC (education literature database)

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Reaxys: Updated Authentication System

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On August 1, 2012, Reaxys underwent a systems upgrade. This change benefits Reaxys users by ensuring a more stable, user-friendly access experience than ever before. If you  have registered with a username, after the upgrade, you and will need to re-register. If there are also any saved Hitsets (History) and Alerts on the Reaxys platform these will need to be restored. Please find a guide on how to do so at: https://www.reaxys.com/info/files/Reaxys_alerting_history.pdf

 

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ProQuest: Down for Maintenance (8/18-8/19)

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ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on Saturday, August 18, 2012. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance to install the latest enhancements to the ProQuest platform. The window will take place from Saturday, August 18 2012, at 7:00 PM PST to Sunday, August 19, 2012 at 7:00 AM PST All ProQuest databases will be offline during this time-period.

Trial Database: National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) V3.0

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As one of the world’s largest repositories of U.S. Government-sponsored research results, the new National Technical Reports Library (NTRL) V3.0 offers fast and easy access to more than 2.2 million titles, with links to over 700,000 corresponding digitized full-text technical reports.

Whether using the fast and easy Quick Search interface or the powerful Advanced Search feature of the National Technical Reports Library V3.0; the new NTRL platform provides improved navigation using faceted search (by Keyword, Source, Subject, Document Type, etc.); a variety of hypertext links (author name, descriptor, etc.); a powerful Advanced Search option; and more.

This OSU Trial runs through 8/21/2012.

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Now Available: PsycTests

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PsycTESTS provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the tests and their development and administration.  Tests include those compiled from a systematic review of peer-reviewed journals; contributions from individual test authors; and collections from the Archives of the History of American Psychology. Coverage starts with 1910, but bulk of collection is from 1990-current.

PsycTESTS provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the tests and their development and administration. Tests include those compiled from a systematic review of peer-reviewed journals; contributions from individual test authors; and collections from the Archives of the History of American Psychology. Coverage starts with 1910, but bulk of collection is from 1990-current.
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PsycTESTS provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about the tests and their development and administration.  Tests include those compiled from a systematic review of peer-reviewed journals; contributions from individual test authors; and collections from the Archives of the History of American Psychology. Coverage starts with 1910, but bulk of collection is from 1990-current.