Category Archives: Databases

Contemporary Women’s Issues Discontinued

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As of January 2011, OSU Libraries will no longer supply access to the Contemporary Women’s Issues (CWI) database.

Last spring, the vendor for Contemporary Women’s Issues, OCLC, announced it is no longer supporting this database.  Usage has steadily declined from when the library started recording in 1999. CWI was most used in 2000—there were 1042 searches. In 2010, there was half that-571 searches. Compare this to Women’s Studies International which the library added in 2008. In 2010 there were 2216 searches.

Much of the content in CWI can be found elsewhere: library catalogs, the open web and the libraries’ other databases, in particular Ebsco.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index Discontinued

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As of January 2011, OSU Libraries will no longer supply access to the Arts & Humanities Index (A&HI) database.

Last spring, the vendor for A&HI, OCLC, announced it is no longer supporting this database.  Since 2002, usage has steadily declined. Add to this that just over 60% of the titles indexed in A&HI are also indexed in other library databases (Ebsco, Project Muse). Thus OSU Libraries will not seek another vendor at this time.

Trial: NBC News Archive

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The OSU Libraries has a trial for the NBC News Archives on Demand.  The trial will be available until 11/30/2010.

NBC News Archives on Demand contains thousands of professionally made multimedia content archived in easily searchable video collections that are updated regularly: News footage of historic and current events. Primary source documents, articles and political cartoons. Photographs, images, charts and graphs.  Critical analysis and mini-documentaries covering topics across academic disciplines.

Access NBC News Archives on Demand

NBC News Archives on Demand (Higher Ed) is specifically tailored to the needs of college and university students and instructors. Comprised of 26 collections including Biology, Psychology, Forensic Sciences, Environmental Sciences, U.S. History, Business, Economics, Urban Studies, Women’s Studies, and many more.

    * Universal Newsreels from 1930s – 1960s

    * Primary source documents from 1600s – Present

    * Current events updated regularly

    * Downloadable and embeddable videos

    * Personalized playlists for research

    * Revolutionary flippable media player

Comments about this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.

Trial: Henry Stewart Talks – Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection

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The OSU Libraries has a trial for the Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection of the Henry Stewart Talks.  The trial will be available until 1/7/2011.

The Biomedical & Life Sciences collection provides access to over 1,100 online seminar style talks containing the latest research, developments as well as the fundamentals presented by the world’s leading authorities in their respective fields including a number of Nobel Laureates.

Access the Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection

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

Database Trial: Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)

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The OSU Libraries has a trial to Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI).  The trial is available through November 13th.

HaPI 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.

Access HaPI

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

Database Trial: Proquest Digital Microform

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OSU Libraries has a trial of Proquest Digital Microfilm.  Access to the trial requires a password, please contact your subject librarian to obtain the login information. The trial will run through October 31, 2010.

ProQuest Digital Microfilm provides scanned newspapers in microfilm, accessible around the clock via an intuitive, easy to use, online interface. Researchers can access full-page, cover-to-cover newspaper content from anywhere an internet connection is present. Digital Microfilm allows multiple, simultaneous users from subscribing libraries to scroll through the scanned microfilm as they would with standard microfilm equipment, or they can access the content using metadata: newspaper title, date, and page numbers. Digital Microfilm also allows users to print, crop, email, or save images for later reference. Additionally, Digital Microfilm offers two image resolutions: lower resolution for quick scrolling and navigation, and a higher resolution to make the most of charts and photographs.

Comments on this resource can be submitted using the electronic resources evaluation form.

STAT-USA database discontinued

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The STAT-USA Office will cease operation on September 30, 2010. The STAT-USA database will not be available after that date. This includes the State of the Nation and the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) resources.

For more than 25 years, the Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce through the STAT-USA database provided the business community with one place to go to access an extensive collection of U.S. economic and finance data, international trade statistics, and market research reports. Divided into two main areas, State of the Nation (SotN) tracked the U.S. economy while GLOBUS & NTDB provided international coverage with country and market research reports.

We have created a guide that captures the URLs of all the data pages from which STAT-USA pulled information. You can find it on the Library Guides page or click on this tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/3yhjchp

New Environmental News Source: Environment & Energy Publishing

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The OSU Libraries have access to Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E).  E&E is an important source for comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets. The subscription includes five online publications covering energy, environmental and climate policy: Environment & Energy Daily, Greenwire, ClimateWire, Land Letter and E&E News PM.  The subscription also includes E&E TV/Onpoint, a daily interview format that delivers discussions with policy makers, authors and other key people involved with energy and environmental policy.

Access Environment & Energy Daily

Key areas covered by E&E’s more than 45 reporters and editors:

  • U.S. federal legislation
  • U.S. environmental regulation and federal agencies
  • International and U.S. climate policy issues
  • Global energy resources and markets
  • Alternative energy
  • Air and water issues
  • Hazardous and toxic substances
  • Public lands
  • Endangered species
  • Mining and agriculture
  • Technology

New Database: OnePetro

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OnePetro is now available, in part, through a generous donation to OSU Libraries. OnePetro is available to the OSU community through December 2010.

Access OnePetro

OnePetro.org is a multi-society library that provides a simple way to search for and access a broad range of technical literature related to the oil and gas exploration and production industry.  OnePetro currently contains more than 85,000 documents, with more being added frequently.
The following organizations currently have their technical documents available through OnePetro:

  • American Petroleum Institute (API)
  • American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)
  • American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
  • Offshore Technology Conference (OTC)
  • NACE International (corrosion engineers)
  • Petroleum Society of Canada (PETSOC)
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
  • Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA)
  • The Society of Underwater Technology (SUT)
  • World Petroleum Council (WPC)

If you have comments regarding the continued availability of this resource beyond December 2010, please contact Andrea.Wirth oregonstate.edu.