The World Cinema Collection contains over 380 streaming feature films from around the globe. From the silent era to contemporary films, this collection spans over 100 years of international films from Europe, Japan, America, Africa, Latin America, India, China, the Middle East and more. This collection is a useful resource for studying the history of cinema, learning about the cultures of various countries, or improving foreign language skills.

LGBT Studies in Video is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. This first-of-its-kind collection features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics. LGBT Studies in Video provides students and researchers across disciplines a multi-content perspective on the LGBT political, cultural and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. It also provides key resources of interest to students and researchers in sociology, anthropology, psychology, counseling, history, political science, gender studies, cultural studies, and religious studies.

 

LGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting books, periodicals, and archival materials documenting LGBT political, social and cultural movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. The collection illuminates the lives of lesbians, gays, transgender, and bisexual individuals and the community with content including selections from The National Archives in Kew, materials collected by activist and publisher Tracy Baim from the mid-1980s through the mid-2000s, the Magnus Hirschfeld and Harry Benjamin collections from the Kinsey Institute, periodicals such as En la Vida and BLACKlines, select rare works from notable LGBT publishers including Alyson Books and Cleis Press, as well as mainstream trade and university publishers.

 

These OSU Trials runs through 8/31/2015.

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Everyday Life & Women in America (1800-1920) provides access to rare primary source material on American social, cultural, and popular history from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of fully searchable images (with transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes, emphasizing conduct of life and domestic management literature, the daily lives of women and men, and contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures.

Defining Gender (1450-1910) includes over 120,000 pages of original documents relating to Gender Studies. The images are sourced from British and European libraries and archives, including a strong core of document images from the Bodleian Library, Oxford and the British Library.

These OSU Trials run through 7/31/2015.

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In preparation for the upcoming ProQuest Ebook Central launch, ProQuest will be performing a significant upgrade to its systems infrastructure on July 1, 2015 to improve performance and scalability. The EBL Patron Interface and EBL LibCentral will not be available July 1,  2:00 pm to 8:00 pm (PST).

 

A variety of ProQuest databases are now available to the OSU community for a trial period. This collection includes ProQuest Central (with ABI-Inform, Newsstand, and much of the Social Science Collection included), ProQuest Public Health, eLibrary, SIRS Discoverer, SIRS Researcher, ProQuest Library Science, Environmental Science Collection, PRISMA and many more. Click here for a complete directory that includes access links and detailed descriptions for all of the trial databases available.

This OSU Trial runs through 5/06/2015.

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ASBC Fishbone References is an online troubleshooting and diagnostic tool for anyone interested in brewing.  The author, Gregory Paul Casey, utilized his 20+ years of experience as an industry insider to provide 121 highly detailed “fishbone” diagrams covering 33 critical topic areas. These fishbone diagrams can serve as useful tools for better understanding  the relationships between an effect of importance to a malster or brewer and observed causes that may be influencing the stated effect. Available fishbone topics include yeast viability and vitality, beer drinkability, beer flavor stability, process control techniques for a variety of brewing processes, and much more.

Journal Citation Reports (InCites) provides a powerful interface for analyzing citation data from journals so researchers can make informed decisions on the published research of their field. Citation data for science, technology, and social sciences publications is drawn from approximately 12,000 scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries.

 

Essential Science Indicators (InCites) contains a vast collection of performance statistics and trends extracted from an in-depth analysis of article counts for articles (and the citations to those articles) published in scholarly journals. Article counts and citation data are gathered from 11,855 journals indexed in Web of Science Core Collection (Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index only) over a 10-year period.

GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is a resource for research and communications in the earth sciences built on a core database of peer-reviewed journals. The database gives researchers a single point of access to 45 full-text scholarly journals plus specialized searching capabilities and links to millions of relevant resources hosted elsewhere on the Web.

 

GSW also offers an e-book collection dedicated to the study of the earth sciences.  The full e-book collection contains more than 1,000 earth science titles from 10 leading society publishers.

 

This OSU Trial runs through 3/31/2015.

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