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On Saturday, June 15, 2013 ProQuest will install new enhancements, features, and databases, to improve the research experience. Highlights from this release include:

Faster ebrary e-book discovery
Improved search experience for tablet users
New custom format options when exporting records to RefWorks

A four (4) hour maintenance window is needed to install these enhancements. The window will take place from Saturday, June 15, at 7:00 PM PST to 11:00 PM PST. All ProQuest databases will be offline during this time-period.

ASME publications will be unavailable on May 14 2:00-5:00 PM PST for urgent server maintenance.

OSU Libraries is now trialing BrowZine a service for iPad by Third Iron. After installing BrowZine you can easily browse and read OSU Libraries and open access journals. BrowZine’s interface creates an enhanced browsing and reading experience. You can mark your favorite journals and articles and save journals onto the “shelf” display. Additional tasks also available. ProfHacker recently reviewed it. (see Figure 1.)

This OSU Trial runs through 7/15/2013.

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BrowZine

SpringerMaterials – The Landolt-Börnstein Database is a systematic comprehensive database of selected and critically assessed data in the physical sciences. You will have access to more than 250,000 substances & material systems, 3,000 properties and more than 1,2 million literature references.

This OSU Trial runs through 6/30/2013.

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Similar to the Science Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index provides quick and powerful access to the bibliographic and citation information needed to find research data, analyze trends, journals, and researchers. It indexes over 1,700 of the world’s leading arts and humanities journals.

This OSU Trial runs through 5/15/2013.

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Access an array of data across subjects and regions, providing a comprehensive picture of research output to understand data in context and maximize research efforts. The Data Citation Index provides a single point of access to quality research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world. Users can:

Discover and attribute — or receive — credit for the creation of scholarly digital research data
Pinpoint primary research by understanding the impact of the scholarly research it supports
Measure the contribution of digital research in specific disciplines and identify potential collaborators

This OSU Trial runs through 5/15/2013.

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OATD is a discovery service intended to help put researchers and scholars in touch with the valuable and unique OA content in college and university ETD collections. It works with each site’s metadata to index only records that are actually ETDs and are freely available online. In addition to harvested metadata, it includes a growing amount of full text “snippets” and sample images to help guide searchers.

The IMD database, World Competitiveness Online, analyzes and ranks the ability of nations to create and maintain an environment that sustains the competitiveness of enterprises. Countries are ranked by four broad categories: business efficiency, infrastructure, economic performance and government efficiency; there are 300 sub-categories. Locate country profiles as well as consolidated rankings.

This OSU Trial runs through 4/30/2013.

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Legal Source is an excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, and others involved with the law. Providing full-text coverage of the world’s most respected scholarly law journals, Legal Source is the authoritative source for information on current issues, studies and trends in the legal world. The collection includes over 1,200 full-text journals and over 2.5 million records, including book reviews and case citations. Legal Source offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment.

This OSU Trial runs through 4/30/2013.

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

On Saturday, March 9, 2013 ProQuest will install new enhancements, features, and databases, to improve the research experience. Highlights from this release include:

Publication search & discover enhancements
Thesaurus search & discover enhancements

A six (6) hour maintenance window is needed to install these enhancements. The window will take place from Saturday, March 9, 2013, at 7:00 PM PST to Sunday, March 10, 2013 at 1:00 AM PST All ProQuest databases will be offline during this time-period.