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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.