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OSU Libraries has established a trial to the Publishing Opportunities Database. This trial will run through October 28, 2009

Publishing Opportunities Database, published by Talsk Research Inc., lists opportunities for professors, post-doctorates and other students interested in presenting and publishing their research papers. Information from three distinct sources is combined and presented in a convenient, intuitive format:

* Journal Call for Papers records index – open opportunities for regularly published journals, to which content is constantly being added
* Conference Call for Papers – time-sensitive content, providing from 3,000 to 4,000 records at any given time, for an annual total of approximately 12,000 records
* Special Issue Call for Papers – time sensitive content with from 500 to 800 records available at any given time, for an annual total of approximately 2,000 records

Comments on this trial can be submitted on the Database Trial Evaluation Form.

OSU Libraries has established a trial to the SimplyMap electronic resource. This trial will run through October 2, 2009.

SimplyMap is an Internet-based mapping application that enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables.

The trial provides access the EASI ® Standard Package, which includes data from the year 2000, Current Estimates, Five Year Projections, the Historical Package, and the EASI MRI & Life Stages Package.

The Standard Package incorporates the following data:
• Demographic Variables
• Retail Sales, Store Groups, and Food Service Variables
• EASI Sales and Other Potential Variables
• EASI Quality of Life Variables
• Consumer Price Index Variables
• General Employment (by Place of Work)
• General Establishment (by Place of Work)
• Detailed Employment (by Place of Work)
• Detailed Establishments (by Place of Work)
• Detailed Consumer Expenditure Variables
• EASI Profile Variables
• Ancestry Tabulations
• D&B’s Points-of-Interest File

During the trial, users can create a workspace by clicking on “Create Personal Workspace” and entering an e-mail address and password. Users can also click on the “CLICK HERE to login to a temporary workspace (your work will not be saved)” to explore SimplyMap without creating an account.

Please let us know what you think of this electronic resource. Comments can be submitted on the Database Trial Evaluation Form.

OSU Libraries has a trial of the Counseling and Therapy in Video database, published by Alexander Street Press. The trial will end on September 8, 2009.

Counseling and Therapy in Video provides an online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. The current release includes 276 videos totaling roughly 300 hours.

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)

OSU Libraries has set up a trial of the 2009 Springer E-book Collection. This trial will run through April 30, 2009. During the trial, Oregon State University faculty, staff and students will be able to browse and access over 25,000 E-book titles published by Springer between 2005 and the present. Visitors will have access to these books from the public computers in the library.

We have access to all books identified with a small green square next to the title information.

The Springer E-Book Collection includes books in the follow subject areas:

• Architecture, Design and Arts
• Behavioral Sciences
• Biomedical & Life Sciences
• Business & Economics
• Chemistry & Material Science
• Computer Science
• Earth & Environmental Science
• Engineering
• Humanities, Social Sciences & Law
• Mathematics
• Medicine
• Physics & Astronomy
• Professional and Applied Computing

Please let us know what you think of this electronic book collection. Comments can be submitted on the Database Trial Evaluation Form. We are particularly interested in hearing if there are specific subject collections you find valuable.

OSU Libraries has a trial of the Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source database. This trial will last through February 20, 2009.

Rehabilitation & Sports Medicine Source contains full-text for over 190 sports and rehabilitation journals. This is a key database for hospital rehabilitation and sports clinicians, with full-text coverage dating back to 1963 and key scholarly titles in this discipline.

Please let us know what you think of this resource. We are particularly interested in how this compares to our existing SportDiscus database. Comments can be submitted on the Database Trial Evaluation Form.

OSU Libraries has a trial of the Public Affairs Index database. This trial will last through February 20, 2009.

Public Affairs Index (PAI) is a bibliographic database covering all aspects of global contemporary public policy issues ranging from public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, to international conflict and natural disasters. It draws on a diverse array of scholarly publications, conference papers, government documents and current reference works to provide up-to-date information on the broad range of topics of concern to the world today.

Please let us know what you think of this resource. Comments can be submitted on the Database Trial Evaluation Form.

OSU Libraries has a trial of the ABC-CLIO History Reference Online collection. This trial will run through September 20, 2008.

ABC-CLIO History Reference Online is a collection 585 electronic books on a variety of history and other humanities topics, including politics, geography, popular culture and religion.

Please let us know what you think of this resource. Comments can be submitted on the Database Trial Evaluation Form.

OSU Libraries has a trial of the Cambridge Histories Online. This trial will run through October 17, 2008.

Cambridge Histories Online brings together over 250 volumes from the renowned Cambridge Histories series. The volumes are grouped into topics, making it quick and easy to search and browse through an array of historical subject areas. The extensive bibliographic referencing and other leading functionality, enhances usability and makes this resource ideal for any type of historical research.

Please let us know what you think of this resource. Comments can be submitted on the Database Trial Evaluation Form.

OSU Libraries has a trial of the Shakespeare Survey. This trial will run through October 17, 2008.

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism.

Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year’s textual and critical studies, and of the year’s major British performances. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare’s time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start.

The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.

Shakespeare Survey Online makes all issues of the Survey, including over 90% of the original images, available online for the first time.

Please let us know what you think of this resource. Comments can be submitted on the Database Trial Evaluation Form.