ProQuest: Down for Maintenance (6/15)

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On Saturday, June 15, 2013 ProQuest will install new enhancements, features, and databases, to improve the research experience. Highlights from this release include:

  • Faster ebrary e-book discovery
  • Improved search experience for tablet users
  • New custom format options when exporting records to RefWorks

A four (4) hour maintenance window is needed to install these enhancements. The window will take place from Saturday, June 15, at 7:00 PM PST to 11:00 PM PST.  All ProQuest databases will be offline during this time-period.

Ebook Database Trial: eBook Academic Subscription Collection

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The eBook Academic Subscription Collection is a growing eBook complement to Academic Search Complete – covering the same broad spectrum of academic subjects with search results integrated on the EBSCOhost platform. There are more titles from the publishers customers say are most important (e.g. Cambridge University Press, ABC-CLIO, Sage). Since the initial release, EBSCO has added a large number of quality titles and over 50 respected publishers, including Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, Columbia University Press, University of California Press, and more.

This OSU Trial runs through 6/10/2013.

Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.

Trial iPad App: BrowZine

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OSU Libraries is now trialing BrowZine a service for iPad by Third Iron.  After installing BrowZine you can easily browse and read OSU Libraries and open access journals. BrowZine’s interface creates an enhanced browsing and reading experience. You can mark your favorite journals and articles and save journals onto the “shelf” display. Additional tasks also available. ProfHacker recently reviewed it. (see Figure 1.)

 

This OSU Trial runs through 7/15/2013.

Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.

BrowZine

Trial Database: SpringerMaterials

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SpringerMaterials – The Landolt-Börnstein Database is a systematic comprehensive database of selected and critically assessed data in the physical sciences. You will have access to more than 250,000 substances & material systems, 3,000 properties and more than 1,2 million literature references.

This OSU Trial runs through 6/30/2013.

Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.

Trial Database: Arts & Humanities Citation Index

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Similar to the Science Index and Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index provides quick and powerful access to the bibliographic and citation information needed to find research data, analyze trends, journals, and researchers. It indexes over 1,700 of the world’s leading arts and humanities journals.

This OSU Trial runs through 5/15/2013.

Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.

Trial Database: Data Citation Index

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Access an array of data across subjects and regions, providing a comprehensive picture of research output to understand data in context and maximize research efforts. The Data Citation Index provides a single point of access to quality research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world.  Users can:

  • Discover and attribute — or receive — credit for the creation of scholarly digital research data
  • Pinpoint primary research by understanding the impact of the scholarly research it supports
  • Measure the contribution of digital research in specific disciplines and identify potential collaborators

This OSU Trial runs through 5/15/2013.

Please tell us what you think. Comments on this resource can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.

Now Available: Open Access Theses and Dissertations

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OATD is a discovery service intended to help put researchers and scholars in touch with the valuable and unique OA content in college and university ETD collections.  It works with each site’s metadata to index only records that are actually ETDs and are freely available online.  In addition to harvested metadata, it includes a growing amount of full text “snippets” and sample images to help guide searchers.

New E-Journal Titles Available

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Access is now available for the following e-journal titles:

 

 

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://www.aeaweb.org/aej-applied/index.php

2009 – Present

 

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://www.aeaweb.org/aej/pol/index.php

2009 – Present

 

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://www.aeaweb.org/aej/mac/index.php

2009 – Present

 

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics

http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://www.aeaweb.org/aej/mic/index.php

2009 – Present

 

American Economic Review

http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/index.php

1999 – Present

 

American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings

http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://www.aeaweb.org/aer/papers.php

1999 – Present

 

American educational research journal

http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://online.sagepub.com/0002-8312

1999 – Present

 

Journal of Economic Literature

http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://www.aeaweb.org/jel/contents/index.php

1994 – Present

 

Journal of Economic Perspectives

http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://www.aeaweb.org/jep/contents/index.php

1987 – Present

 

Journal of Transformative Education

http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://online.sagepub.com/1541-3446

2003 – Present

 

Metascience

http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=journal&issn=0815-0796&volume=

1997 – Present

 

Physics in Perspective

http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://link.springer.com/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1422-6944&volume=

1999 – Present

 

Psychology of Music

http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://online.sagepub.com/0305-7356

1999 – Present

 

Review of educational research

http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://online.sagepub.com/0034-6543

1999 – Present

 

Science Translational Medicine

http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://stm.sciencemag.org

2009 – Present