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Upcoming change to LexisNexis Academic

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In the near future, LexisNexis Academic will be switching to a new interface. You can take a look at the new version by clicking on the Try the Beta release now link at the top of the web page when you are in LexisNexis Academic.

New features will include:

  • Shepard’s Citations will expand to cover all federal and state courts
  • Company Dossier will be included in all U.S. subscriptions
  • Search across broad content such as all news or all federal and state cases
  • Powerful source selection using language, geographic, topic, and other facets
  • Ability to create ad hoc combined sources
  • Sophisticated results clustering feature
  • SmartIndexing Technology™ at work throughout the interface
  • Support for article-level linking
  • Support for federated searching

Journals now available electronically

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Oregon State University Libraries now has electronic access to the following journals:

University of California Press:

  • 19th-Century Music
  • Film Quarterly
  • Gastronomica
  • Huntington Library Quarterly
  • Journal of Musicology
  • Journal of Palestine Studies
  • Journal of the American Musicological Society
  • Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos
  • Nineteenth-Century Literature
  • Pacific Historical Review
  • Representations
  • Rhetorica
  • Social Problems
  • Sociological Perspectives
  • Symbolic Interaction

Other journals now available:

Ebscohost database problems – PROBLEM FIXED

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We are experiencing intermittent difficulties with the Ebscohost databases, including Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier. We are working with Ebsco to fix this problem. If you are unable to access an Ebsco database, and are located on campus, try this link: Ebscohost and click on the Ebscohost Web link at the top of the page. If you are not on campus, access will be restored when the problems are fixed.

This problem has been fixed

Database trial: Morningstar Library Edition

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OSU Libraries has established a trial of Morningstar Library Edition (login=oregonstate; password=library). This database combines fund and stock information and includes:

  • 16,000+ mutual funds
  • 100+ ETFs
  • 6,000+ stocks from NYSE, AMEX,
    Nasdaq, and OTC exchanges
  • 250 screenable fund datapoints
  • 450 screenable stock datapoints
  • 2,000 Fund Analyst Reports
  • 1,500+ Stock Analyst Reports

This trial will end June 16, 2007.

First Search database access problems – PROBLEM FIXED

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Access has been restored to the First Search databases

We currently have access problems with several of our First Search databases.

This does not affect all of our First Search databases; for example, Worldcat and ArticleFirst are still available.

The databases that are currently unavailable are:

Alternative Press Index
Arts And Humanities
Business Dateline
Clase & Periodica
Contemporary Women’s Issues
Disclosure
Dissertation Abstracts
Ebooks
Factsearch
Geobase
Media Review Digest
Worldscope

Cell Press offer to OSU researchers

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Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, is offering a free print subscription to Cell. As a benefit of the site license to Cell Online managed by OSU Libraries, any researcher, student, or faculty member in North America affiliated with our institution is entitled to receive a print subscription – normally a $179 value – absolutely free. To sign up for the offer, go to www.Cell.com/freesub.

For more information about the Cell Affiliated Subscription Program, please see our FAQ at http://www.cell.com/misc/page?page=misc9.

Oxford Reference technical difficulties – FIXED

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UPDATE: This problem has been fixed

Due to a server issue, some Oxford Online products are experiencing a technical problem which is preventing user access to certain databases.

The affected databases include Oxford Reference Online, Grove Music Online, Grove Art Online,

Please note that the OED Online has not been affected by this technical problem.

Music Database Trials: TRIAL ENDED

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OSU Libraries has a trial of several music databases produced by Alexander Street Press. These trials will run through April 11, 2007. The trial is IP-based and can be accessed from computers on the OSU campus in Corvallis.

Classical Music Library
Classical Music Library is a multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. Coverage of repertoire is increasing as new labels are added (currently over 32 labels), with a particular focus on content that meets the needs of educators and students. Includes biographical material on composers.

African American Song
African American Song documents the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. It features some 16,000 tracks of great historical recordings from Document Records. This great collection features recordings from the first half of the 20th century and includes iconic artists such as The Fisk Jubilee Singers, Memphis Minnie, Blind Willie McTell and Huddie Ledbetter.

Smithsonian Global Sound
Smithsonian Global Sound includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies.

New Enhancements to Open WorldCat

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Open WorldCat has added two new features:

SORTING SEARCH RESULTS
Web users who perform searches at WorldCat.org can now sort results using several indices. By default, search results are returned sorted by relevance. Additionally, users can now sort by author (alphabetical by last name), title (alphabetical), and date (newest-to-oldest and oldest-to-newest).

Result sorting joins the recently added “Refine Your Search” faceted browse feature in providing users the ability to better examine large result sets.

CITATION FEATURE HELPS STUDENTS AND RESEARCHERS
Item records in WorldCat’s open-Web interface now include a “Cite this Item” link that provides bibliographic citations in five common styles: APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA and Turabian. Displayed in a separate pop-up window, the citations follow the reference standard for each style.

The citations window cautions users that “formatting rules within a style can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study,” and that they should apply the specific requirements of a reviewing body.