OSU Libraries has purchased the e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection which includes access to over 1,300 backlist titles and at least 100 new electronic books published by Duke University Press. Duke, a not-for-profit scholarly publisher, is internationally recognized as a prominent publisher of books in the humanities and social sciences.
Category Archives: E-Books
Now Available: IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library
Through the use of gift funds, the OSU Libraries are pleased to announce that the campus has access to the entire IEEE eBook backlist through 2011 (over 400 titles). The Wiley-IEEE eBooks collection spans numerous content areas including Bioengineering, Power & Energy and Communication technologies, among other growing areas of research. Individual chapters are available in PDF format. Books are discoverable within the IEEE Xplore digital library alongside articles on related topics.
Now Available Online: Encyclopedia of Child Behavior and Development
Encyclopedia of child behavior and development breaks new ground as a continuously updated and timely reference work for students, educators, researchers and professionals. This three volume work is divided into major conceptual areas of child development: Learning, Behavior, and Emotions; offers extensive internal cross referencing and includes references and suggested works in most entries.
Scheduled Downtime: Proquest Products
All Proquest products and services will be unavailable due to critical infrastructure maintenance beginning Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PST) through Sunday June 5, 2011 at 7:00 AM (PST). We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Now Available Online: Encyclopedia of Popular Music
This encyclopedia’s 30,000 entries cover all genres and periods of popular music from 1900 to the present day, including jazz, country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. The expanded Fourth Edition includes thousands of new entries on trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies that include record labels, release dates, and a 5-star album rating system.
Now Available Online: Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature
The Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature covers an interdisciplinary range of material, from ecology, theology, philosophy, and beyond. Entries cover major thinkers, religious traditions, and important events. The Encyclopedia critically explores the relationships among human beings, their environments, and the religious dimensions of life. This wide-ranging work, chronologically, geographically, and religiously, includes 1,000 entries from 520 international contributors.
Scheduled Downtime: Gale Products
All Gale products and services will be unavailable due to critical infrastructure maintenance beginning Friday, June 3, 2011 at 9:00 PM (PST) through Saturday June 4, 2011 at 9:00 AM (PST). We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
EBL – Ebook Library: Brief Scheduled Downtime March 22nd 2011
Due to necessary system maintenance, Ebook Library titles will be unavailable for 10-30 minutes during the following scheduled time:
Tuesday March 22nd, 2011 – 10:00 PM – 11:00 PM
Now Available Online: Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education
Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education –
This is an encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education. It is intended to provide a comprehensive background for those interested in issues involving schools and society. The Social and Cultural Foundations of Education is an interdisciplinary field, including disciplines (to name just a few) such as history and sociology, as well as topical areas such as globalization and technology
Now Available Online: Encyclopedia of Motherhood
The intent of the encyclopedia is to introduce readers to and provide information on the central terms, concepts, topics, issues, themes, debates, theories, and texts of this new discipline of motherhood studies as well as to examine the topic of motherhood in various contexts such as history and geography and by academic discipline. Additionally, the central and governing terms and concepts of maternal scholarship, such as daugher-centiricty, matraphopia, matroreform, cultural bearing, maternal thinking, motherline, mask of motherhood, intensive mothering, new momism, empowered mothering, homeplace, othermothering, to name but a few, are all included in the encyclopedia. This reference work provides an overview of the topic of motherhood in many and diverse disciplines, such as anthropology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy, as well it examines the meaning and experience of motherhood in many time periods from classic civilizations to present day. Finally, as the encyclopedia provides a history of motherhood, it also covers issues and events of our current times to feature entries on the mommy blog, the motherhood memoir, terrorism, reproductive technologies, HIV/AIDS, LGBT families, the 21st-century motherhood movement (including entries for contemporary motherhood organizations).