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The Oregon State University Libraries is cancelling its subscription to Ingenta Connect as of August 1, 2009. In anticipation of this you will find suggestions for alternative research alerting services available at: http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu/subject-guide/611-Keeping-Current-with-Research?tab=2121 .

• In lieu of Ingenta for your Search Alerts, we recommend using a broad database like Web of Knowledge/Science as the closest equivalent to the broad coverage of Ingenta OR
• You may want to see if the subject specific database you use most frequently has an alerting service.
• In lieu of Ingenta’s Table of Contents alerts, we recommend you use the free JISC Table of Contents alerting service called “ticTOCs” ” (see at: http:// www.tictocs.ac.uk/), OR
• Ingenta offers a free personal Table of Contents services for up to five (5) titles. You fall in that category. If you would like to use the free version you can set this up by going to: http://www.ingentaconnect.com . Note: This is probably better done from off campus or after August 1 so you do not inadvertently end up at our current institutional subscription site.

If you need additional assistance setting up search alerts please contact your subject librarian. If you are unsure which librarian covers your department, refer to this listing: http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/staff/college-dept-specialists

Volume 1 of the new Annual Review title, Annual Review of Marine Science, is now available online.

The Informaworld site will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance from 10 PM to midnight on Friday, May 8, 2009. The Taylor and Francis journals will not be available during this time.

The Food Science and Technology Abstracts database has moved to the Ovid Platform. The new link is http://proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/login?url=http://gateway.ovid.com/autologin.html.

Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA) includes citations and abstracts of journal articles, research papers, conference proceedings and other materials in all areas of food science, including food engineering, microbiology, packaging, technology and toxicology. Citations to materials on food laws, regulations and patents are also included. Coverage is from 1969-present.

The Taylor and Francis electronic journals on the Informaworld platform will not be available at the following times, due to scheduled essential maintenance:

Friday, April 10, 2009 - 4 PM (PDT) - Midnight (PDT)
Friday, April 17, 2009 - 8 PM (PDT) - Saturday, April 18, 2009 4 AM (PDT)

The Elsevier ScienceDirect platform will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on their site on Saturday, April 4, 2009, from 3 PM to Midnight PDT. Elsevier journals will be not be available during this time.

The 19th Century British Pamphlet Collection, created by RLUK (Research Libraries UK), contains the most significant British pamphlets from the 19th century held in UK research libraries. Pamphlets were an important means of public debate, covering the key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. They have been underutilized within research and teaching because they are generally quite difficult to access – often bound together in large numbers or otherwise hard to find in the few research libraries that hold them. The digitization of more than 20,000 pamphlets from seven UK institutions will provide researchers, students, and teachers with an immensely rich and coherent corpus of primary sources with which to study the socio-political and economic landscape of 19th century Britain. This collection was created with funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme.

The 19th Century British Pamphlets collection is now freely accessible to all JSTOR participating institutions through June 30, 2009.

The collection includes Cowen Tracts (1603-1898), Hume Tracts (1769-1890) and the Knowlsley Pamphlet Colletion (1792-1868)

ticTOCs provides access to the current Table of Contents (TOC) from some 12,000 journals, providing a single interface for managing access to journals’ RSS feeds - saving users from searching for individual journal feeds and tracking multiple journal webpages. Users can also easily export their journal TOC selections from ticTOCs to the RSS feed reader of their choice (including Microsoft Outlook RSS feeds folder).

The Elsevier ScienceDirect platform will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on their site on Saturday, March 8 PM, from 5 AM - 11:30 PM. Elsevier journals will be not be available during this time.

ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world.

Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers searching ArchiveGrid can learn about the many items in each of these collections, contact archives to arrange a visit to examine materials, and order copies.

A sampling of the thousands of contributors to ArchiveGrid:

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Harvard University

International Institute of Social History (IISH)

National Library of Australia

New York Public Library

Oregon State University Archives

Radio City Music Hall

Smithsonian Institution - Archives of American Art