Database Trial: WestLaw

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OSU Libraries has a current trial of the WestLaw Campus Research database. Campus Research is an easy-to-use online research service that provides college and university students with access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.

Campus Research includes the following:

    News and Business Content

    • Newspapers. Includes current and archival newspapers like The New York Times, USA Today, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Boston Globe, Financial Times, and hundreds more!
    • Magazines. Provides current and archival issues of sought-after sources like Newsweek, the Economist, Consumer Reports, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Spectator, Publishers Weekly, and Business Week.
    • Trade Journals. Offers current and archival issues for virtually any discipline. Includes titles like U.S. Banker, Securities Industries News, Accountancy Age, Advertising Age, PR Week, Modern Physician, and many more.
    • Company Information. Provides SEC filings and Hoover’s company records, including profiles for thousands of private and public U.S. corporations.
    • International Publications. Includes popular international sources like European Report, Middle East Observer and World News Connection.
    • Newswires. Get the most current news from more than 400 newswires, including the Associated Press, U.S. Newswire, and numerous international wires.
    • Newsletters. Access timely information across many specialties, including Alternative Medicine Alert, Agriculture Chemical News, White House press releases, Wireless News, and many others.
    • Broadcast Transcripts. Offers more than 900 television and radio transcripts that includes national and local news content from ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, NBC, PBS, and BBC radio.
    • Foreign Language Publications. Search non-English news sources available in Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
  • Law Content
    • American Jurisprudence 2d (Am Jur 2d). An encyclopedia that provides summary and analysis of all fields of American state and federal law. It contains many citations to cases, statutes, and law review articles. It also includes analysis of the spirit and intent of the courts in construing the law, and Legislative intent in enacting and amending the law.
    • American Law Reports (ALR). ALR provides a continually updated series of articles (annotations) on legal topics discussed in key cases. The articles provide objective analysis of different sides of an issue, written in a narrative style.
    • More than 700 law reviews and journals. Law reviews are scholary journals published by most accredited law schools. They contain thorough discussions of current issues and trends in the law, with comprehensive analysis by scholars and legal professionals. They are also an excellent source of citations to cases. Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, American Journal of Legal History, Stanford Law Review, and International and Comparative Law Quarterly are just a few of the hundreds of highly respected publications available.
    • United States Code Annotated (USCA). USCA combines the official text of the United States Code with relevant cases, historical notes, indexes, cross-references and other annotations.
    • All federal and state cases including U.S. Supreme Court cases. Easily accessible through West’s National Reporter System, an exclusive system of reporting federal and state cases that’s editorially enhanced for complete research.
    • State statutes and regulations. Includes statutes from all 50 states and D.C. and administrative codes from all 44 states.
    • Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The full body of federal administrative regulations.
    • Federal Register. Includes 50,000 pages of current regulatory, administrative and executive materials generated by key federal entities.

This trial is password-based; please contact your Subject Librarian for the login and password. The trial will end on March 15, 2008. Comments on the trial can be sent through the Database Trial Evaluation Form.

Database Trial: PsycNET Trial

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OSU Libraries has a current trial of the APA PsycNET database. PsycNET is the American Psychological Association (APA) platform for their electronic resources including:

  • PsycINFO – bibliographic database of scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. PsycINFO covers journals, books, reviews, and dissertations.
  • PsycARTICLES – full-text database of journals published by APA and other publishers in subject areas such as applied psychology, health, theory, research, social/personality, and more.
  • PsycBOOKS – full-text database of APA books, classic books, and entries from the Encyclopedia of Psychology.
  • PsycEXTRA – a gray literature database. Gray literature is material written for professionals and disseminated outside of peer-reviewed journals. Documents include newsletters, magazines, newspapers, technical and annual reports, government reports, consumer brochures, and more.
  • and PsycCRITIQUES – full-text database of book and film reviews.

This trial is password-based; please contact your Subject Librarian for the login and password. The trial will end on March 31, 2008. Comments on the trial can be sent through the Database Trial Evaluation Form.

Web of Science now available back to 1970!

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Web of Science is the web version of Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). Web of Science accesses a multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article’s cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.

Coverage for these databases has now been extended back to 1970 for both the Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index. The library is grateful for funds donated to Friends of the Library that were used to help make this purchase possible.

Database trial: INSPEC via ISI Web of Knowledge

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OSU Libraries has a trial of the INSPEC database on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform. This trial is to evaluate the Web of Knowledge platform as an alternative to our current subscription to INSPEC on the Ebscohost platform.

INSPEC trial on ISI Web of Knowledge. This trial will end Friday, February 29, 2008

To compare with our current subscription, you can search INSPEC on the Ebscohost platform.

Published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), INSPEC covers physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering and information technology. More than 6,000,000 abstract records and 330,000 new abstracts, 4,000 journals and 2,000 conference proceedings added each year. Each record contains an English-language title and descriptive abstract, together with full bibliographic details which include the journal title, author’s name and affiliation and the language of the original document. Coverage is from 1969-present.

If you look at this resource during the trial, please fill out a Trial Evaluation Form

Charleston Advisor now available

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OSU Libraries now has access to The Charleston Advisor. Access is available from Vol. 1 (1999) to the present.

The Center for Research Libraries and the editors of The Charleston Advisor (TCA) have begun to work together to expand and enhance The Charleston Advisor as a source of trustworthy and authoritative evaluations of electronic scholarly resources and services. By working together CRL and TCA expect to make available to the collection development community more analytical information about electronic resources and in-depth analysis of the archiving provisions that stand behind those resources.

Beginning with the current (January 2008) issue librarians at all CRL member institutions will henceforth have access to TCA. IP ranges for CRL members have been forwarded to TCA, and even CRL institutions that have not previously subscribed now have online access to the TCA through CRL. TCA will phase out its subscription fees for CRL institutions. Those who have already renewed their TCA subscriptions will begin to receive TCA gratis through CRL when their current subscription period ends.

CRL is happy to make this essential collection development tool available to you and hope that it yields significant benefits for your institution.

Database Trial: PsychiatryOnline

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A trial has been set up for the PsychiatryOnline database. This trial will run through February 15, 2008

PsychiatryOnline is a web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR®—the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world—and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of an unsurpassed collection of psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

Included in the database are:

  • References including DSM-IV-TR®, DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and its Treatment Companion, and the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
  • Journals including The American Journal of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Services
  • Textbooks including The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry
  • Self-assessment tools for study, board certification and recertification review, and lifelong learning
  • Clinical & research news from Psychiatric News

If you look at this resource during the trial, please fill out a Trial Evaluation Form

New Electronic Reference Books

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OSU Libraries has acquired two new electronic reference books through the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

The Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography is a new edition of the classic reference title Dictionary of Scientific Biography. it provides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented.

The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa illuminates the lives of the most influential and controversial figures in the Middle East and North Africa who came to prominence during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Includes profiles of contemporary leaders who belong to various political, ethnic, and religious groups, as well as notable individuals associated with business, law, science, social issues, sports, entertainment, literature, and the fine and performing arts.

BIOSIS and Zoological Record

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OSU Libraries now has an alternative interface for the BIOSIS Previews and Zoological Record databases. These databases are still available on the old platforms, but they are also available on the Thomson Scientific Web of Knowledge platform.

BIOSIS Previews (Biological Abstracts)
Zoological Record

On the Web of Knowledge platform, it is possible to search these databases simultaneously with the Web of Science (Science Citation Index) database through the All Databases option.

No Off-Campus Access to Databases & Electronic Journals 1/3/08

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On Thursday, January 3, 2008, the library will be upgrading one of its primary data servers. This process will limit access to many of our electronic services, including the proxy authentication table used for off-campus access to our electronic resources. Beginning at midnight on January 3, access to databases and electronic journals will be limited to on-campus computers.