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We are pleased to let you know that the OSU Libraries are conducting a trial of ACLS Humanities E-Book. The trial will run through June 30, 2008.

This electronic resource includes 1700 full-text, cross-searchable books in the humanities selected for their continuing importance to students and scholars. In summer 2008, and every year thereafter, HEB will be adding 500 titles to the collection.

The project includes both in-print and out-of print books and adds 500 titles a year. It is a collaboration of the American Council of Learned Societies, various constituent members of the ACLS and nearly 95 publishers.

Areas include: Comparative/World, Africa, America, Asia, Latin America, Europe (Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern), the Middle East, Byzantium and the Mediterranean, and Australasia/Oceania, plus Women’s studies, of the Native Peoples of the Americas, and history of Economics, Science and Technology, Archaeology, Art History, Folklore, Religion, Musicology, and Political Science.

Lists of titles can be found online at: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/titlelist.html

This site allows for simultaneous multi-user access; individual books can be added to e-reserve; and you can link from a syllabus to books/chapters. If we subscribe, a cataloging record for each book in the collection will appear in our catalog with a link to the online text.

To try the site, go to: http://www.HumanitiesEBook.org

Although searching and browsing are always unrestricted, to access the full text you will need to use a login and password. Please contact your Subject Librarian

Please let us know what you think of the site and whether you would like us to subscribe. Comments can be submitted on the Database Trial Evaluation Form.

OSU Libraries has acquired two new electronic reference books through the Gale Virtual Reference Library.

The Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography is a new edition of the classic reference title Dictionary of Scientific Biography. it provides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented.

The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa illuminates the lives of the most influential and controversial figures in the Middle East and North Africa who came to prominence during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Includes profiles of contemporary leaders who belong to various political, ethnic, and religious groups, as well as notable individuals associated with business, law, science, social issues, sports, entertainment, literature, and the fine and performing arts.

OSU Libraries has set up trials for the EBL and ECHO electronic book platforms. These trials will run though September 6th, 2007.

EBL (Electronic Book Library)
Login: Trial
Password: OSUDEMO1b
(both login and password are case sensitive)

EBrary
You will need to download Ebook reader before you can view the books

If you take a look at these e-book trials, please fill out an Evaluation Form

Oxford Reference Online Premium (ORO Premium) brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world’s biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Core Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. It is a fully-indexed, cross-searchable database of these books, giving subscribers unprecedented access to a comprehensive information resource. The Premium Collection offers all of the above, plus added functionality and more detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the world-renowned Oxford Companions Series. These quality online reference books compliment the Libraries’ existing online reference collection, which includes the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Online and the Gale Virtual Reference Library.