Category Archives: Databases

Pre-CINAHL database now merged with CINAHL

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The content in the Pre-CINAHL database has been merged with the CINAHL database to streamline searches. Pre-CINAHL was intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and included a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which was available to searchers only for the time when these articles were being assigned additional indexing. This enabled users to gain access to article citations that otherwise would not have been available. These early article citations are now part of all CINAHL products.

This update means that:

  • All of the records you wish to access in Pre-CINAHL can be searched in your subscribed CINAHL product
  • If you wish to exclude these records in your CINAHL product search, you can use the “Exclude Pre-CINAHL” search limiter

CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 current nursing and allied health journals and publications dating back to 1982, totaling over 880,000 records.

RSS Feeds in Library Databases

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In the past, RSS reader/aggregators such as Bloglines & NewsGator were often unable to recognize RSS feeds from our databases and electronic journals because our III proxy server changed the URL, imbedding additional text. With our switch to EZProxy, this is no longer an issue and the RSS feeds should work.

More information on RSS feeds and readers is available on this Keeping Current with Research: RSS page.

New features in Web of Knowledge, Journal Citation Reports, and EndNote Web

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ISI has made several enhancements to their products.

The next time you access ISI Web of Knowledge resources, you’ll find enhancements that provide you with totally new options for research:

  • Web of Science: Citation Mapping – be the first to see the beta version of this powerful new Web of Science® visualization tool. Visualize citation relationships and understand the meaning of a cited reference search. Map citations by author, institution, country, subject, and more!
  • Web of Science and Biosis: Additional All-Database search options – now you can sort by Times Cited and search for specific addresses within an All-Database search, making this powerful feature even more flexible and convenient.
  • Journal Citation Reports: New 2007 Data for Journal Citation Reports® – the new 2007 data provides the most current information available to determine a publication’s impact and influence in the global research community.
  • EndNote Web: Collaborate and share material easier with EndNote®Web • Designate read/write access for shared EndNote Web folders. Link to the full text of articles directly from EndNote Web records.

Web of Science now available back to 1970!

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Web of Science is the web version of Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). Web of Science accesses a multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article’s cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.

Coverage for these databases has now been extended back to 1970 for both the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index. The library is grateful for funds donated to Friends of the Library that were used to help make this purchase possible.

Database trial: INSPEC via ISI Web of Knowledge

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OSU Libraries has a trial of the INSPEC database on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform. This trial is to evaluate the Web of Knowledge platform as an alternative to our current subscription to INSPEC on the Ebscohost platform.

INSPEC trial on ISI Web of Knowledge. This trial will end Friday, February 29, 2008

To compare with our current subscription, you can search INSPEC on the Ebscohost platform.

Published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), INSPEC covers physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering and information technology. More than 6,000,000 abstract records and 330,000 new abstracts, 4,000 journals and 2,000 conference proceedings added each year. Each record contains an English-language title and descriptive abstract, together with full bibliographic details which include the journal title, author’s name and affiliation and the language of the original document. Coverage is from 1969-present.

If you look at this resource during the trial, please fill out a Trial Evaluation Form

Charleston Advisor now available

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OSU Libraries now has access to The Charleston Advisor. Access is available from Vol. 1 (1999) to the present.

The Center for Research Libraries and the editors of The Charleston Advisor (TCA) have begun to work together to expand and enhance The Charleston Advisor as a source of trustworthy and authoritative evaluations of electronic scholarly resources and services. By working together CRL and TCA expect to make available to the collection development community more analytical information about electronic resources and in-depth analysis of the archiving provisions that stand behind those resources.

Beginning with the current (January 2008) issue librarians at all CRL member institutions will henceforth have access to TCA. IP ranges for CRL members have been forwarded to TCA, and even CRL institutions that have not previously subscribed now have online access to the TCA through CRL. TCA will phase out its subscription fees for CRL institutions. Those who have already renewed their TCA subscriptions will begin to receive TCA gratis through CRL when their current subscription period ends.

CRL is happy to make this essential collection development tool available to you and hope that it yields significant benefits for your institution.

BIOSIS and Zoological Record

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OSU Libraries now has an alternative interface for the BIOSIS Previews and Zoological Record databases. These databases are still available on the old platforms, but they are also available on the Thomson Scientific Web of Knowledge platform.

BIOSIS Previews (Biological Abstracts)
Zoological Record

On the Web of Knowledge platform, it is possible to search these databases simultaneously with the Web of Science (Science Citation Index) database through the All Databases option.