Closed Captions are now available on many of the 399 classic and contemporary feature films in the World Cinema Streaming Video Collection that are not already subtitled. In addition, most of the films with closed captions also now have searchable, interactive transcripts.
Here are just a few of the many titles that now contain closed captions and transcripts:
This OSU Trial runs through 12/1/2015.
Please tell us what you think. Comments on these resources can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.
PrivCo.com is a useful source for business and financial research on non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed and international unlisted companies. There are currently profiles for over 850,000 firms, 20,000 investors and 100,000 private market deals, with information and in-house analysis added daily. Use for doing company, investor, M&A, venture capital funding, or private equity research. Searchable by advanced criteria in all categories. Entrepreneurship programs will like the ability to search for investors, or private companies in specific, emerging industries. Job seekers may use the venture capital funding search to search for companies that are raising funding and most likely hiring.
JSTOR access may still be inconsistent today as their technical support team continues to work to resolve the problem.
JSTOR is currently working to resolve intermittent access issues that have been impacting all JSTOR users since this morning. Access to JSTOR may be inconsistent today.
This OSU Trial runs through 11/16/2015.
Please tell us what you think. Comments on these resources can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.
Passport (from Euromonitor International) is an online market research database you can use to understand the global business environment. It includes industry research and market reports (including Consumer Health, Consumer Electronics, Retailing, and Travel & Tourism), global company profiles, country reports, statistics, and more. (Note that some functionality is not available in the trial database.)
This OSU Trial runs through 10/30/2015.
Please tell us what you think. Comments on these resources can be submitted on the electronic resource evaluation form.
Music Online: Listening is a comprehensive, high-quality streaming audio collection of music. This ever-expanding collection includes the complete content of Alexander Street’s collections in popular music, classical music, jazz, American song, world music, and the Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries. For even more detailed information about the content included in this collection, click HERE.
In preparation for the upcoming ProQuest Ebook Central launch, the ProQuest EBL platform will be unavailable for up to three hours during September 15, 2015 to combine ebrary and EBL content into a single new back-end system. This update means that when Ebook Central launches, it will have all the content and access models that EBL and ebrary have today.
The EBL Patron Interface and EBL LibCentral will not be available September 15, 3:00 – 6:00 pm (PST)
On Saturday, August 8, ProQuest will be upgrading its systems infrastructure to improve performance, security, and overall reliability. The system maintenance window is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM Pacific Standard Time and will last for eight (8) hours.
On Saturday, August 1, access to Elsevier platforms will be unavailable due to a scheduled maintenance for approximately 4.5 hours starting at 03:00 PM PST. The platforms involved are ScienceDirect, Engineering Village, Reaxys.
The World Cinema Collection contains over 380 streaming feature films from around the globe. From the silent era to contemporary films, this collection spans over 100 years of international films from Europe, Japan, America, Africa, Latin America, India, China, the Middle East and more. This collection is a useful resource for studying the history of cinema, learning about the cultures of various countries, or improving foreign language skills.