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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.

Material ConneXion is the largest global resource of new materials. The Library houses over 1,400 new and innovative materials representing eight categories: polymers, glass, ceramics, carbon-based materials, cement-based materials, metals, natural materials and natural material derivatives; featuring truly cutting-edge materials and applications.

Classical Scores Library contains over 400,000 pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 25,000 musical scores. The second edition of Classical Scores Library, Classical Scores Library Volume II is now available. The second volume will bring together 200,000 pages at completion and is the first online score collection for libraries that’s composed mostly of in-copyright classical scores from major composers and editions.

This OSU Trial runs through 5/15/2012.

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Just released in March 2012, the definitive online collection for the study of classical music in video format will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances captured on video–approximately 1,500 performances in all. Also included is the award-winning masterclass series from Masterclass Media Foundation–the full set, plus new releases, available only through Alexander Street Press. These are unique sessions, recorded specifically for the camera, with master teachers from each instrument group represented, including violin with Maxim Vengerov, piano with Emanuel Ax, cello with Steven Isserlis, conducting with Bernard Haitink, singing with Joan Rodgers, percussion with Evelyn Glennie, viola with Yuri Bashmet, and many more.

This OSU Trial runs through 5/15/2012.

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Covering all aspects of human behavior and bringing together a range of key practitioners and theorists, Anthropology Online is the most comprehensive resource for the study of social and cultural life yet created. With more than 100,000 pages at completion, it’s a perfect complement to Ethnographic Video Online.

This OSU Trial runs through 5/15/2012.

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Taylor & Francis Online will be undergoing maintenance on Wednesday 22nd February 2012, starting at 10 AM PST and finishing by 2 PM PST. The platform will be unavailable for one hour from 10 AM, and may be unavailable for a further three hours during the scheduled maintenance window.

The WRDS Unix server will be undergoing maintenance from 4:00am – 7:00am EST on Tuesday, February 28. They will be patching the system to provide the most up-to-date computing environment for your research programming needs. The WRDS website and the WRDS Microstructure Cloud will not be affected by the maintenance.

Users will not be able to access WRDS through UNIX or PC SAS Connect while the maintenance is in progress. Jobs and user sessions that are active when it begins will be interrupted and they will have to be restarted when the system is back online.

19th Century Masterfile is the largest resource for research into the published output of Anglo-American (and additional non-English) materials produced prior to 1925. Our goal is to include all relevant indexes to periodicals, books, newspapers, patents and US and many UK government documents. There are more than 8,000 periodicals, as well as extensive indexes sources for books, newspapers, patents and US and UK government documents.

This OSU Trial runs through 2/24/2012.

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ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on February 4, 2012. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, February 4, 2012, at 7:00 PM PST to Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 7:00 AM PST. All ProQuest products will be unavailable during this time.

This powerful online database provides over 1.4 million up-to-the-minute biographies of leaders and achievers from around the world in the areas of business, law, science, medicine, the arts, government, entertainment and more – in one convenient source! It provides access to all biographies that have appeared in 24 Marquis Who’s Who print titles since 1985, plus historical biographies from our Who Was Who in America volumes from 1607–1985.

This OSU Trial runs through 2/23/2012.

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