Comprehensive coverage back to 1987 is available for a limited time for The Chicago Tribune and The Washington Post through ProQuest

ProQuest offers fully-indexed issues of these newspapers, so researchers can easily access a variety of topics from each and every issue.

These OSU Trials run through 8/5/2012.

Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.

SimplyMap* is an Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Professional mapping applications take over 20 hours of training to use, SimplyMap has been designed to be incredibly user friendly – most users are up and running with less than 10 minutes of training.

*Free Registration is Required.

OSU’s subscription entitles you to access the EASI ® Standard Package, which includes data from the year 2000, 2010, Current Estimates, Five Year Projections and Experian SimmonsLOCAL® Data Package.

The Standard Package incorporates the following data:

  • Demographic Variables
  • Retail Sales, Store Groups, and Food Service Variables
  • EASI Sales and Other Potential Variables
  • EASI Quality of Life Variables
  • Consumer Price Index Variables
  • General Employment (by Place of Work)
  • General Establishment (by Place of Work)
  • Detailed Employment (by Place of Work)
  • Detailed Establishments (by Place of Work)
  • Detailed Consumer Expenditure Variables
  • EASI Profile Variables
  • Ancestry Tabulations
  • D&B’s Points-of-Interest File

Experian SimmonsLOCAL is a powerful targeting and profiling system that provides insights into consumer behavior for all of America’s 210 media markets on a local level with 60,000+ data variables, including over 450 categories and 8,000 specific brands.  From the products we buy to the brands we prefer to our attitudes and lifestyles, SimmonsLOCAL reports on the unique nuances of every market.  Enjoy the ability to analyze data by State, County, City/Place, ZIP code, Census Tracts, Block Groups, or even custom area.

The Simmons Data Package covers hundreds of categories under general topics including but not limited to:

  • Lifestyle (Demographics & Statements)
  • Hispanics Only (Special Demographics & Media)
  • Computers/Internet
  • Media
  • Entertainment/Leisure
  • Travel
  • Food (Baking, Condiments, Dairy, Frozen, General, Meat & Snacks/Deserts)
  • Beverages (Alcoholic & Non-Alcoholic)
  • Daily Activity
  • Dining
  • Apparel
  • Shopping
  • Health & Beauty Aids
  • Medicine/Drugs/Ailments
  • Tobacco
  • Telecom
  • Financial Services
  • Household Products
  • Cleaning Products
  • Pets & Pet Food
  • Home Improvements
  • Home Furnishings & Appliances
  • Lawn & Garden
  • Electronics
  • Automotive

 

ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on Saturday, June 30, 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, June 30, 2012, at 9:00 PM PST to Sunday, July 1, 2012 at 7:00 AM PST All ProQuest databases will be offline during this time-period.

Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook™ (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. This resource also includes the complete Tests in Print database which is also produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska. Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). A score index permits users to identify what is being measured by each test.

This OSU Trial runs through 6/12/2012.

Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.

Produced by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook™ (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,700 contemporary testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership.

This OSU Trial runs through 6/12/2012.

Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI), produced by Behavioral Measurement Database Services, 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.

This OSU Trial runs through 6/12/2012.

Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.

With Credo Reference, you get content from hundreds of reference books covering every major subject. There are over 3 million entries, 200,000+ images (art, diagrams, maps and photos), and over 100,000 audio pronunciation files and sound clips. The content is enriched by a network of cross-reference links that cut across topics and titles to give you accurate, contextual results.  Try out the concept map in addition to basic and advanced searching to find references that meet your needs.

This OSU Trial runs through 5/31/2012.

Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.

AccessEngineering includes renowned engineering handbooks including fully interactive versions of Perry’s Chemical Engineers’ Handbook, Marks’ Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers, Roark’s Formulas for Stress and Strain, as well as Schaum’s Outlines.  Recently redesigned, the AccessEngineering interface offers powerful new search tools, improved navigation, and 24/7 global engineering news, and provides users with faster, more accurate, and more relevant searches.

This OSU Trial runs through 5/12/2012.

Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.

EBSCO eBook Academic Subscription provides access to thousands of ebooks.  Integrated into the EBSCOhost platform, EBSCO ebooks are easily discoverable alongside the content in Academic Search Premier and other familiar EBSCO databases.  The collection covers a broad range of subject matter by important publishers such as Springer, Wiley, CUP, ABC-CLIO, and Sage and more.  Books can be view online or downloaded to eReaders (not including the Kindle).

This OSU Trial runs through 5/31/2012.

Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.