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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:

• American Decades Primary Sources
• Ancient Civilizations Reference Library
• Complete Human Diseases and Conditions
• Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed.
• Encyclopedia of Religion
• Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics
• Encyclopedia of World Cultures
• UXL Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, 2nd ed.
• Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia

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:

• Asian Journal of Comparative Law
• B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
• B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics
• B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics
• Basic Income Studies
• Business and Politics
• California Journal of Politics and Policy
• Capitalism and Society
• Chemical Product and Process Modeling
• Economists’ Voice
• Forum
• Forum for Health Economics & Policy
• Global Economy Journal
• Global Jurist
• International Commentary on Evidence
• International Journal of Biostatistics
• International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering
• International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems
• International Journal of Food Engineering
• International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
• Issues in Legal Scholarship
• Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization
• Journal of Business Valuation and Economic Loss Analysis
• Journal of Complementary and Integrative Medicine
• Journal of Drug Policy Analysis
• Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management
• Journal of Imagery Research in Sport and Physical Activity
• Journal of Industrial Organization Education
• Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports
• Journal of Time Series Econometrics
• Journal of Tort Law
• Law & Ethics of Human Rights
• Law and Development Review
• Muslim World Journal of Human Rights
• New Global Studies
• Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy
• Review of Law & Economics
• Review of Marketing Science
• Review of Middle East Economics and Finance
• Rhodes Cook Letter
• Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology
• Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics
• Theoretical Inquiries in Law
• World Political Science Review

There will be several new titles added to the BePress Collection in 2010:

• Journal of College and Character
• Journal of Globalization and Development
• Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice
• NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education
• Policy and Internet
• Poverty & Public Policy
• Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy
• Statistical Communications in Infectious Diseases
• World Medical and Health Policy

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:

• Biomedical and Life Sciences -1,475 titles
• Earth & Environmental Science - 738 titles
• Mathematics & Statistics - 1,624 titles

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

• Academic OneFile - compare to Academic Search Premier
• InfoTrac OneFile - compare to Masterfile Premier
• InfoTrac Newsstand - compare to Newspaper Source

Business & Economics Databases

• Business & Company Resource Center - includes company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodicals
• General Business File - compare to Business Source Premier
• Business Economics and Theory Collection - includes a number of journals indexed in EconLit
• Small Business Resource Center - sample business plans, how-to guides, articles and websites

Education - see also K-12 databases below

• Educators Reference Complete - compare to Education Research Complete

Health & Medicine

• Health Reference Center Academic - compare to Health Source Nursing/Academic and Health Source Consumer Edition
• Health & Wellness Resource Center with Alternative Health Module - medical reference materials
• Nursing Resource Center - interface disease and drug overviews, care plans, relevant journal results and animated anatomy and physiology diagrams
• Nursing and Allied Health Collection - articles on all aspects of the Nursing profession

Law

• LegalTrac - compare to Legal Collection
• Criminal Justice Collection - full-text of over 150 legal-related periodicals

Sciences

• Agriculture Collection - full-text includes a number of journals indexed in Agricola
• Computer Database - compare to Computer Source
• Environmental Studies & Policy Collection - includes 200 journals related to environmental issues and policy

Social Sciences & Humanities

• Communication and Mass Media Collection - subjects covered include: advertising and public relations, literature and writing, linguistics, and many more
• Fine Arts and Music Collection - full-text includes a number of journals in Art Index
• Hospitality, Tourism & Leisure Collection - compare to Hospitality & Tourism Complete
• Psychology Collection - compare to Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

K-12 Resources

• InfoTrac Junior Edition - compare to Middle Search Plus
• InfoTrac Student Edition - compare to MAS Ultra School Edition
• Junior Reference Collection - reference sources for middle schools; includes curriculum standards
• Kids InfoBits - K-5 database
• Student Resource Center Gold - K-12 reference sources
• Discovering Collection - high school level reference sources, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia; includes curriculum standards

Spanish Language Resources

• Informe - compare to Fuente Academica

Public Library-Oriented Resources

• Culinary Arts Collection - of the major cooking and nutrition magazines. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information
• Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection - collection of nearly 50 journals focused specifically on key issues in gardening, landscaping, and other areas of horticulture
• Home Improvement Collection -includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more
• Popular Magazines - includes 1000 of the most searched magazine titles from Gale databases

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