Category Archives: Trials

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

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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

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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

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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.

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Database trials: Art Abstracts and Art Full Text

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OSU Libraries has a trial of the Art Abstracts and the Art Full Text databases, to compare with our current Art Index subscription. This trial will run through September 30, 2010.

To access the databases, select Art Index from the OSU Libraries’ databases page. On the search page, select either Art Abstracts or Art Full Text before beginning your search.

Art Abstracts provides abstracts to the Art Index indexing for articles publishing from January 1994-present.
Art Full Text includes the indexing and abstracting of Art Abstracts, plus full text of articles from more than 270 periodicals as far back as 1997.

Comments on this database trial can be submitted using the Electronic Resource Evaluation Form.

Database Trial: Social Explorer

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Oxford University Press has recently acquired the Social Explorer database and is making it available for trial while they are migrating it to their platform. There is both a free edition and the professional edition – access to the full database requires the user to sign in; please contact your subject librarian for the login information. The trial ends August 31, 2010.

Social Explorer is an online research tool designed to provide quick and easy access to historical census data and demographic information. It creates fast, intuitive, and appealing maps and reports to help users visually analyze and understand demography and social change throughout history.

Key features include:

  • Contains the entire US Census history from 1790 to 2000, the American Community Survey, and the Religious Congregations and Membership Study from 1980 to 2000 – the most complete census data available on religion in the US
  • All annual updates from the American Community Survey to 2008
  • Original Census tract-level estimates for 2006 and 2007
  • 2002 Carbon Emissions Data from the Vulcan Project
  • 39 billion data points, 200,000 variables, and 15,000 interactive maps
  • Thematic and interactive maps make it easy to visually explore the entire US census history
  • Create reports at the state, county, census tract, block group, and zip code level
  • Reports automatically calculate aggregates, percentages, and medians, to save time and eliminate error
  • Automatically create slideshows from maps
  • Maps are interactive and easily navigable and incorporate a find tool to instantly locate addresses, cities, zip codes, and towns

Database trial: John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera

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OSU Libraries has set up a trial of the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. Access to the trial requires a password; please contact your subject librarian to obtain this. The trial will end August 14, 2010.

The John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera is the first-ever electronic research collection of its kind. ProQuest has painstakingly scanned in color a portion of the John Johnson collection that resides in the Bodleian Library of Oxford, England. The resulting database provides direct access to rare primary source materials and evidence of Britain’s cultural, social, industrial and technological heritage.

Comments on this database trial can be submitted using the Electronic Resource Evaluation Form.

Database Trial: Cambridge Histories Online

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OSU Libraries has set up a trial of Cambridge Histories Online, produced by Cambridge University Press. This trial will run through June 17, 2010.

Cambridge Histories Online is the online version of the Cambridge Histories reference series, dating back to the 1960s.

Key Features:

  • Contains over 260 volumes published since 1960, equating to around 196,000 pages of unrivalled scholarship
  • Unique & dynamic content
  • Covers over 15 different academic subjects
  • Search and browse content (basic & advanced search and a content specific browse)
  • Personalisation including, saved & most recent searches, workspaces and bookmarks
  • Citation export functionality
  • Comprehensive librarian support resources including, COUNTER compliant usage statistics, library branding, MARC records and title lists
  • User display control features including, switchable hit term highlighting, pagination of results and the ability to control the number of hits per page
  • Extensive bibliographic reference functionality; fully referenced content with all references displayed, OpenURL compliant and linked online through CrossRef

Comments on this database trial can be submitted using the Electronic Resource Evaluation Form.

Database Trial: Reaxys

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OSU Libraries has a trial of the Reaxys Database, published by Elsevier. Reaxys combines the content of CrossFire Beilstein, CrossFire Gmelin and the Patent Chemistry Database. This trial will run through June 4, 2010.

Reaxys has extensive coverage of authoritative information in organic, organometallic and inorganic chemistry including:

  • Single and multi-step reaction data
  • Information on catalysts
  • Experimental substance property data

Comments on this database trial can be submitted using the Electronic Resource Evaluation Form