Contemporary Women’s Issues Discontinued

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As of January 2011, OSU Libraries will no longer supply access to the Contemporary Women’s Issues (CWI) database.

Last spring, the vendor for Contemporary Women’s Issues, OCLC, announced it is no longer supporting this database.  Usage has steadily declined from when the library started recording in 1999. CWI was most used in 2000—there were 1042 searches. In 2010, there was half that-571 searches. Compare this to Women’s Studies International which the library added in 2008. In 2010 there were 2216 searches.

Much of the content in CWI can be found elsewhere: library catalogs, the open web and the libraries’ other databases, in particular Ebsco.

Arts & Humanities Citation Index Discontinued

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As of January 2011, OSU Libraries will no longer supply access to the Arts & Humanities Index (A&HI) database.

Last spring, the vendor for A&HI, OCLC, announced it is no longer supporting this database.  Since 2002, usage has steadily declined. Add to this that just over 60% of the titles indexed in A&HI are also indexed in other library databases (Ebsco, Project Muse). Thus OSU Libraries will not seek another vendor at this time.

Now available online: Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development

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The Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development examines three key life stages from a sociological perspective, exploring how enduring experiences, as well as transitions and events such as childcare, education, stress, marriage, career, addiction, friendship, parenthood, disease, spirituality, and retirement influence the individual’s life course. The life stages examined are: Childhood and Adolescence; Adulthood; and Later Life.

Now available online: Encyclopedia of the Great Depression

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The Encyclopedia of the Great Depression encompasses nearly two decades of American history, beginning with the farm crisis of the mid-1920s, through the 1929 stock market crash, the gradual recovery during the 1930s with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal and World War II. This wide-ranging, multidisciplinary encyclopedia features entries on depression-era politics, government, business, economics, literature, the arts, society and culture.

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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