OSU Libraries has a trial of the Anthropology & Ethnographic Video Online collection, published by Alexander Street Press. Anthropology & Ethnographic Video Online is a visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture, online in streaming video. The collection currently has almost 300 videos (mostly documentaries, plus some field recordings and interviews). Trial ends June 15, 2010
Please submit your comments regarding this electronic resource trial through the Database Trial Evaluation Form.
Oregon State University has a trial of the Opera in Video collection from Alexander Street Press. This trial will run through May 30, 2010.
When complete, Opera in Video will contain 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. Opera in Video currently has 147 videos, equalling 316 hours.
Please submit your comments regarding this electronic resource trial through the Database Trial Evaluation Form.
To celebrate Women’s History Month, Alexander Street Press is making Women and Social Movement in the U.S., 1600-2000, Scholar’s Edition freely available. This resource will be available through March 31, 2010.
A mainstay of women’s history scholarship and teaching in universities worldwide, this online collection is edited by Professors Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin of SUNY Binghamton. This extensive collection of primary historic documents, books, images, scholarly essays, teaching tools, and book and Web site reviews documents the history of women’s activism in public life, and is one of the most heavily visited resources for women’s studies and for U.S. history on the Web. Organized around document projects written by leading scholars, the collection is a powerful research and classroom tool designed to help users develop the skills needed to analyze primary documents and conduct research. Document projects are organized around interpretive questions, each with 20-50 primary documents that address the question. Some examples are:
• How Did the Ladies Association of Philadelphia Shape New Forms of Women’s Activism During the American Revolution, 1780-1781?
• How Did White Women Aid Former Slaves During and After the Civil War, 1863-1891?
• How Did Black and White Southern Women Campaign to End Lynching, 1890-1942?
• How and Why Did the Guerrilla Girls Alter the Art Establishment in New York City, 1985-1995?
• How Have Recent Social Movements Shaped Civil Rights Legislation for Women? The 1994 Violence Against Women Act.
The Scholar’s Edition also includes more than 40,000 pages of full-text sources, including:
• Proceedings of all women’s rights conventions, 1848-1869
• Proceedings of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1898
• Selected publications of the League of Women Voters, 1920-2000
Also newly added to the Scholar’s Edition are:
• Notable American Women, the five-volume biographical dictionary
• The Collected Publications of federal, state, and local Commissions on the Status of Women, a digital archive with 90,000 pages of publications, 1961-2005
Alexander Street press also has a companion blog, Women and Social Movements: The Online Discussion, where faculty discuss how they’ve made use of the online collection in the classroom, share syllabi, and exchange ideas.
OSU Libraries has a trial of Guide to Reference. This trial will run through March 31, 2010.
Guide to Reference is a selective guide to the best reference sources, organized by academic discipline. An editorial team of reference librarians and subject experts have selected and annotated some 16,000 entries, both print and web-based, free and subscription.
Please submit your comments through the Database Trial Evaluation Form.
OSU Libraries has a trial of the CRCnetBASE collection of databases. This includes CHEMnetBASE, with the 90th edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, and ENGnetBASE. The trial is IP-based; if you are accessing this trial from outside the Corvallis campus, please use the CRCnetBASE and CHEMnetBASE links above to access the trial. This trial will run through April 1, 2010. The following databases are included in the trial:
Comments on these resources can be submitted on the Database Trial Evaluation Form
OSU Libraries currently has a trial of the full-text versions of America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts. We currently subscription to the index versions of these databases; this trial adds the full-text content of a number of the journals indexed in the databases.
These trials will run through February 28, 2010.
America: History & Life with Full Text: covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. With indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present. Full-text of nearly 200 journals and 90 books.
Historical Abstracts with Full Text: covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women’s history, history of education, and much more. With indexing for 1,800 journals from 1955-present. Full-text of over 300 journals and 130 books.
OSU Libraries has established a trial to the Publishing Opportunities Database. This trial will run through October 28, 2009
Publishing Opportunities Database, published by Talsk Research Inc., lists opportunities for professors, post-doctorates and other students interested in presenting and publishing their research papers. Information from three distinct sources is combined and presented in a convenient, intuitive format:
* Journal Call for Papers records index – open opportunities for regularly published journals, to which content is constantly being added
* Conference Call for Papers – time-sensitive content, providing from 3,000 to 4,000 records at any given time, for an annual total of approximately 12,000 records
* Special Issue Call for Papers – time sensitive content with from 500 to 800 records available at any given time, for an annual total of approximately 2,000 records
Comments on this trial can be submitted on the Database Trial Evaluation Form.
OSU Libraries has established a trial to the SimplyMap electronic resource. This trial will run through October 2, 2009.
SimplyMap is an Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables.
The trial provides access the EASI ® Standard Package, which includes data from the year 2000, Current Estimates, Five Year Projections, the Historical Package, and the EASI MRI & Life Stages Package.
The Standard Package incorporates the following data:
• Demographic Variables
• Retail Sales, Store Groups, and Food Service Variables
• EASI Sales and Other Potential Variables
• EASI Quality of Life Variables
• Consumer Price Index Variables
• General Employment (by Place of Work)
• General Establishment (by Place of Work)
• Detailed Employment (by Place of Work)
• Detailed Establishments (by Place of Work)
• Detailed Consumer Expenditure Variables
• EASI Profile Variables
• Ancestry Tabulations
• D&B’s Points-of-Interest File
During the trial, users can create a workspace by clicking on “Create Personal Workspace” and entering an e-mail address and password. Users can also click on the “CLICK HERE to login to a temporary workspace (your work will not be saved)” to explore SimplyMap without creating an account.
Please let us know what you think of this electronic resource. Comments can be submitted on the Database Trial Evaluation Form.
OSU Libraries has a trial of the Counseling and Therapy in Video database, published by Alexander Street Press. The trial will end on September 8, 2009.
Counseling and Therapy in Video provides an online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. The current release includes 276 videos totaling roughly 300 hours.
The 19th Century British Pamphlet Collection, created by RLUK (Research Libraries UK), contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries. Pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. They have been underutilized within research and teaching because they are generally quite difficult to access – often bound together in large numbers or otherwise hard to find in the few research libraries that hold them. The digitization of more than 20,000 pamphlets from seven UK institutions will provide researchers, students, and teachers with an immensely rich and coherent corpus of primary sources with which to study the socio-political and economic landscape of 19th century Britain. This collection was created with funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme.
The 19th Century British Pamphlets collection is now freely accessible to all JSTOR participating institutions through June 30, 2009.
The collection includes Cowen Tracts (1603-1898), Hume Tracts (1769-1890) and the Knowlsley Pamphlet Colletion (1792-1868)