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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.
5 additional years available through Web of Science
OSU Libraries have purchased an additional 5 years of Web of Science backfiles. Both Social Sciences Citation Index and the Science Citation Index are now available to 1965. Web of Science is a multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. Web of Science also provides information on citations to publications and customized search alerts.
Now Available Online: Women and Social Movements Scholar’s Edition
Women and Social Movements in the United States (Scholar’s Edition) brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in American public life. Thousands of pages of materials provide in-depth access to the published histories and records of women’s organizations throughout the United States. Also included are documented projects on a broad range of topics, with footnotes to introductory material, annotations of primary documents, a bibliography, and a list of related Web links.The Scholar’s Edition includes Notable American Women and a 90,000 page archive from the Commissions on the Status of Women.
Trial Database: Sage Research Methods Online (available until April 30, 2011)
SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SRMO links over 100,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools. Researchers can explore methods concepts to help them design research projects, understand particular methods or identify a new method, conduct their research, and write up their findings. Since SRMO focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, it can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and more.
This OSU Trial runs through 4/30/2011.
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Trial Database: Access World News Research Collection (available until April 29, 2011)
Access World News Research Collection provides full-text access to The Oregonian. Supports all academic disciplines. Provides unique primary sources not found in other resources. Provides extensive coverage at local, regional, national and international levels. Offers complete electronic editions of thousands of authoritative U.S. and global news sources. Includes thousands of broadcast transcripts, newswires, video clips, and news blogs. Gives over 219 million current and archived articles— growing daily. Features a customizable, map-based interface and powerful search capabilities. Enables students to examine subjects geographically and over time, analyze trends and statistics, and compare perspectives.
This OSU Trial runs through 4/29/2011.
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Now Available Online: FashionSnoops
FashionSnoops is a leading provider of global online forecasting information and a world renowned fashion and lifestyle trend consulting firm. FashionSnoops provides ongoing reports in market research of brands and markets, ongoing retail strategy reports, trend forecasting reports starting 24 months ahead of season, continuous and full coverage of the runway, retail, tradeshow, street and art scenes, daily news & blogs, product development supporting tools, plus an online application that allows creation of various digital presentations.