Database Trial: Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI)

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The OSU Libraries has a trial to Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI).  The trial is available through November 13th.

HaPI is a comprehensive bibliographic database providing information about behavioral measurement instruments. Information in the database is abstracted from hundreds of leading journals covering health sciences and psychosocial sciences.

Additionally, instruments from Industrial/Organizational Behavior and Education are included. Records contained in HaPI provide information on questionnaires, interview schedules, vignettes/scenarios, coding schemes, rating and other scales, checklists, indexes, tests, projective techniques, and more.

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

Database Trial: Proquest Digital Microform

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OSU Libraries has a trial of Proquest Digital Microfilm.  Access to the trial requires a password, please contact your subject librarian to obtain the login information. The trial will run through October 31, 2010.

ProQuest Digital Microfilm provides scanned newspapers in microfilm, accessible around the clock via an intuitive, easy to use, online interface. Researchers can access full-page, cover-to-cover newspaper content from anywhere an internet connection is present. Digital Microfilm allows multiple, simultaneous users from subscribing libraries to scroll through the scanned microfilm as they would with standard microfilm equipment, or they can access the content using metadata: newspaper title, date, and page numbers. Digital Microfilm also allows users to print, crop, email, or save images for later reference. Additionally, Digital Microfilm offers two image resolutions: lower resolution for quick scrolling and navigation, and a higher resolution to make the most of charts and photographs.

Comments on this resource can be submitted using the electronic resources evaluation form.

STAT-USA database discontinued

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The STAT-USA Office will cease operation on September 30, 2010. The STAT-USA database will not be available after that date. This includes the State of the Nation and the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB) resources.

For more than 25 years, the Office of the U.S. Department of Commerce through the STAT-USA database provided the business community with one place to go to access an extensive collection of U.S. economic and finance data, international trade statistics, and market research reports. Divided into two main areas, State of the Nation (SotN) tracked the U.S. economy while GLOBUS & NTDB provided international coverage with country and market research reports.

We have created a guide that captures the URLs of all the data pages from which STAT-USA pulled information. You can find it on the Library Guides page or click on this tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/3yhjchp

New Environmental News Source: Environment & Energy Publishing

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The OSU Libraries have access to Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E).  E&E is an important source for comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets. The subscription includes five online publications covering energy, environmental and climate policy: Environment & Energy Daily, Greenwire, ClimateWire, Land Letter and E&E News PM.  The subscription also includes E&E TV/Onpoint, a daily interview format that delivers discussions with policy makers, authors and other key people involved with energy and environmental policy.

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Key areas covered by E&E’s more than 45 reporters and editors:

  • U.S. federal legislation
  • U.S. environmental regulation and federal agencies
  • International and U.S. climate policy issues
  • Global energy resources and markets
  • Alternative energy
  • Air and water issues
  • Hazardous and toxic substances
  • Public lands
  • Endangered species
  • Mining and agriculture
  • Technology

New Database: OnePetro

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OnePetro is now available, in part, through a generous donation to OSU Libraries. OnePetro is available to the OSU community through December 2010.

Access OnePetro

OnePetro.org is a multi-society library that provides a simple way to search for and access a broad range of technical literature related to the oil and gas exploration and production industry.  OnePetro currently contains more than 85,000 documents, with more being added frequently.
The following organizations currently have their technical documents available through OnePetro:

  • American Petroleum Institute (API)
  • American Rock Mechanics Association (ARMA)
  • American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE)
  • Offshore Technology Conference (OTC)
  • NACE International (corrosion engineers)
  • Petroleum Society of Canada (PETSOC)
  • Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
  • Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA)
  • The Society of Underwater Technology (SUT)
  • World Petroleum Council (WPC)

If you have comments regarding the continued availability of this resource beyond December 2010, please contact Andrea.Wirth oregonstate.edu.

Database trials: Art Abstracts and Art Full Text

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OSU Libraries has a trial of the Art Abstracts and the Art Full Text databases, to compare with our current Art Index subscription. This trial will run through September 30, 2010.

To access the databases, select Art Index from the OSU Libraries’ databases page. On the search page, select either Art Abstracts or Art Full Text before beginning your search.

Art Abstracts provides abstracts to the Art Index indexing for articles publishing from January 1994-present.
Art Full Text includes the indexing and abstracting of Art Abstracts, plus full text of articles from more than 270 periodicals as far back as 1997.

Comments on this database trial can be submitted using the Electronic Resource Evaluation Form.

STAT-USA to cease operations September 30, 2010

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The STAT-USA Office of the US Department of Commerce will cease operation on September 30, 2010. The STAT-USA database will not be available after that date. This includes the State of the Nation and the National Trade Data Bank.

STAT-USA has provided a transition page that identifies the sources of the data in the STAT-USA database.

If you have any questions, please contact your subject librarian.