October 28, 2009
Elsevier ScienceDirect unavailble Saturday evening/night 10/31/09
Due to scheduled maintenance, Elsevier ScienceDirect journals will be unavailable from 6:00 PM Saturday, October 31, 2009 to 2:00 AM Sunday, November 1, 2009.
Due to scheduled maintenance, Elsevier ScienceDirect journals will be unavailable from 6:00 PM Saturday, October 31, 2009 to 2:00 AM Sunday, November 1, 2009.
The Gale Virtual Reference Library has new reference titles available through the Statewide Database Licensing Group contract. The following titles are included with this deal:
OSU Libraries now has access to the complete Berkeley Electronic Press (BePress) collection of electronic journals. These journals are in a number of subject areas, including Economics, Business, and Marketing; Law; Political Science, Policy, and International Studies; Health and Medicine; Science and Technology; and Education.
These are the journals currently available:
There will be several new titles added to the BePress Collection in 2010:
The EbscoHost databases (including Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, Education Research Complete and MLA International Bibliography, been enhanced to include the following:
* Support for the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 7th Edition.
* Improved support for the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 5th Edition
* Ability for EBSCOhost customers to export bibliographic data in XML format (see this FAQ.)
The Encyclopedia of Inland Waters contains over 240 individual articles covering various broad topics including properties of water hydrologic cycles, surface and groundwater hydrology, hydrologic balance, lakes of the world, rivers of the world, light and heat in aquatic ecosystems, hydrodynamics and mixing in rivers, reservoirs, and lakes, biological integration among inland aquatic ecosystems, pollution and remediation, and conservation and management of inland aquatic ecosystems.
OSU Libraries has acquired 3 new electronic book collections from Springer:
These collections join the Computer Science collection acquired earlier this year. Each collection includes titles published between 2005-2009; titles that are part of OSU Libraries’ collection are marked with a green square next to the title.
A number of Gale Databases are now available through the Oregon Statewide Database Licensing Program. There are a large number of databases and they cover a broad range of topics, so here a brief overview of the databases available, organized by broad topics. If we have a similar database in EbscoHost, it is listed for comparison.
General Databases
Business & Economics Databases
Education - see also K-12 databases below
Health & Medicine
Law
Sciences
Social Sciences & Humanities
K-12 Resources
Spanish Language Resources
Public Library-Oriented Resources
OSU Libraries has established a subscription to Hospitality & Tourism Complete.
Hospitality & Tourism Complete™ covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than 828,000 records, with coverage dating as far back as 1965.
There is full text for more than 480 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books. Full-text periodicals include Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, Current Issues in Tourism, Hotel & Motel Management, International Journal of Tourism Research, Journal of Ecotourism, Journal of Leisure Research, Journal of Sport Tourism, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Leisure Sciences, Leisure Studies, Nation’s Restaurant News, Restaurant Business, Tourism & Hospitality Research, and many more.
Sources are both domestic and international in range and scope, with material collected from countries and regions such as Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia.
OSU Libraries would like to thank the students of OSU Cascades, as their Technology Resource Fees helped pay for this new database.
The Oregon Regional Union List of Serials (ORULS) is not longer available and has been removed from the Database of Databases.
From the Oregon State Library web site:
The Oregon State Library no longer provides access to the Oregon Regional Union List of Serials (ORULS). The database has not been updated for several years.
Some holdings information is available via the free version of OCLC Worldcat. Full holdings information is available through the subscription version of WorldCat, which is offered through most public libraries.
Search by serial title and limit type to ‘Serial Publication’ and location by OCLC symbol. Then select ‘Libraries worldwide that own item’.
Free Worldcat: http://www.worldcat.org/
Sustainability Science Abstracts is part of the Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM) database.
Sustainability Science Abstracts was expanded and merged with the Human Population and Natural Resources Management section of ESPM. This new expanded database explores all aspects of sustainable development, human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management. Also covered are the topics of conservation of natural resources, ensuring the attainment and continued satisfaction of human needs in the present as well as maintaining the potential to meet the needs and aspirations of future generations. This involves the maintenance of species diversity and protection of the habitat/ecosystems they rely upon. The economy is an important aspect of sustainability and should be seen as “a means to an end” not an end in itself. Coverage includes relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from standard peer-reviewed scientific journals. To ensure comprehensive coverage, material from conference proceedings and hard-to-find gray literature has also been summarized.
Major areas of coverage include:
o Human Population Dynamics
o Population - Environment Relations
o Population Statistics and Policy
o Ecotourism
o Sustainable Living and Consumption
o Environmental Awareness and Education
o Environmental Law, Conventions, & Policy
o Sustainable Resource Base: Atmosphere; Land; Water and Biodiversity
o Economic Drivers
o Sustainable Development and Production
o Sustainable Energy
o Sustainable Transportation/Mobility
Dates of Coverage: 1995 - Current