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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.

A trial of the London Times Digital Archive 1785-1985 has been set up and will run through May 29, 2008.

The Times Digital Archive is a full-image online archive of every page published by The Times [London] from 1785-1985. The text within the images is fully searchable at the article level. Users can easily search news articles, obituaries, advertising and classifieds — virtually everything that appeared in the newspaper. Results are displayed at the article level and users may view the article — or the full page upon which it appeared.

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

OSU Libraries has a current trial of the WestLaw Campus Research database. Campus Research is an easy-to-use online research service that provides college and university students with access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.

Campus Research includes the following:

News and Business Content

• Newspapers. Includes current and archival newspapers like The New York Times, USA Today, Atlanta Journal and Constitution, Boston Globe, Financial Times, and hundreds more!
• Magazines. Provides current and archival issues of sought-after sources like Newsweek, the Economist, Consumer Reports, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, Spectator, Publishers Weekly, and Business Week.
• Trade Journals. Offers current and archival issues for virtually any discipline. Includes titles like U.S. Banker, Securities Industries News, Accountancy Age, Advertising Age, PR Week, Modern Physician, and many more.
• Company Information. Provides SEC filings and Hoover’s company records, including profiles for thousands of private and public U.S. corporations.
• International Publications. Includes popular international sources like European Report, Middle East Observer and World News Connection.
• Newswires. Get the most current news from more than 400 newswires, including the Associated Press, U.S. Newswire, and numerous international wires.
• Newsletters. Access timely information across many specialties, including Alternative Medicine Alert, Agriculture Chemical News, White House press releases, Wireless News, and many others.
• Broadcast Transcripts. Offers more than 900 television and radio transcripts that includes national and local news content from ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, MSNBC, NBC, PBS, and BBC radio.
• Foreign Language Publications. Search non-English news sources available in Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.
• Law Content
• American Jurisprudence 2d (Am Jur 2d). An encyclopedia that provides summary and analysis of all fields of American state and federal law. It contains many citations to cases, statutes, and law review articles. It also includes analysis of the spirit and intent of the courts in construing the law, and Legislative intent in enacting and amending the law.
• American Law Reports (ALR). ALR provides a continually updated series of articles (annotations) on legal topics discussed in key cases. The articles provide objective analysis of different sides of an issue, written in a narrative style.
• More than 700 law reviews and journals. Law reviews are scholary journals published by most accredited law schools. They contain thorough discussions of current issues and trends in the law, with comprehensive analysis by scholars and legal professionals. They are also an excellent source of citations to cases. Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, American Journal of Legal History, Stanford Law Review, and International and Comparative Law Quarterly are just a few of the hundreds of highly respected publications available.
• United States Code Annotated (USCA). USCA combines the official text of the United States Code with relevant cases, historical notes, indexes, cross-references and other annotations.
• All federal and state cases including U.S. Supreme Court cases. Easily accessible through West’s National Reporter System, an exclusive system of reporting federal and state cases that’s editorially enhanced for complete research.
• State statutes and regulations. Includes statutes from all 50 states and D.C. and administrative codes from all 44 states.
• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). The full body of federal administrative regulations.
• Federal Register. Includes 50,000 pages of current regulatory, administrative and executive materials generated by key federal entities.

This trial is password-based; please contact your Subject Librarian for the login and password. The trial will end on March 15, 2008. Comments on the trial can be sent through the Database Trial Evaluation Form.

OSU Libraries has a current trial of the APA PsycNET database. PsycNET is the American Psychological Association (APA) platform for their electronic resources including:

• PsycINFO - bibliographic database of scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. PsycINFO covers journals, books, reviews, and dissertations.
• PsycARTICLES - full-text database of journals published by APA and other publishers in subject areas such as applied psychology, health, theory, research, social/personality, and more.
• PsycBOOKS - full-text database of APA books, classic books, and entries from the Encyclopedia of Psychology.
• PsycEXTRA - a gray literature database. Gray literature is material written for professionals and disseminated outside of peer-reviewed journals. Documents include newsletters, magazines, newspapers, technical and annual reports, government reports, consumer brochures, and more.
• and PsycCRITIQUES - full-text database of book and film reviews.

This trial is password-based; please contact your Subject Librarian for the login and password. The trial will end on March 31, 2008. Comments on the trial can be sent through the Database Trial Evaluation Form.

OSU Libraries has a trial of the INSPEC database on the ISI Web of Knowledge platform. This trial is to evaluate the Web of Knowledge platform as an alternative to our current subscription to INSPEC on the Ebscohost platform.

INSPEC trial on ISI Web of Knowledge. This trial will end Friday, February 29, 2008

To compare with our current subscription, you can search INSPEC on the Ebscohost platform.

Published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), INSPEC covers physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computers and control engineering and information technology. More than 6,000,000 abstract records and 330,000 new abstracts, 4,000 journals and 2,000 conference proceedings added each year. Each record contains an English-language title and descriptive abstract, together with full bibliographic details which include the journal title, author’s name and affiliation and the language of the original document. Coverage is from 1969-present.

If you look at this resource during the trial, please fill out a Trial Evaluation Form

A trial has been set up for the PsychiatryOnline database. This trial will run through February 15, 2008

PsychiatryOnline is a web-based portal that features DSM-IV-TR®—the most widely used psychiatric reference in the world—and The American Journal of Psychiatry as the cornerstones of an unsurpassed collection of psychiatric references from American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.

Included in the database are:

• References including DSM-IV-TR®, DSM-IV-TR® Casebook and its Treatment Companion, and the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders
• Journals including The American Journal of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Services
• Textbooks including The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry
• Self-assessment tools for study, board certification and recertification review, and lifelong learning
• Clinical & research news from Psychiatric News

If you look at this resource during the trial, please fill out a Trial Evaluation Form

A trial has been set up of the Alexander Street Press database Primary Sources in Counseling and Psychology. This trial will run through December 31, 2007.

Primary Sources in Counseling and Psychology is a searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. New material is added on a biweekly basis and, when complete, the database will contain more than 2,000 session transcripts, 40,000 pages of first-person accounts, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material. The database currently includes approximately 12,500 pages of material, including about 1,800 pages of reference material, 5,700 pages of personal accounts, and 4,900 pages of session transcripts.

OSU Libraries has set up a trial for the Chronicle of Higher Education. This trial will run through November 15, 2007.

The Chronicle of Higher Education is an important source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators.

Online, The Chronicle is published every weekday and features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings and more.

A trial has been set up for the SimplyMap database. 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 will run through October 31, 2007.

You will need to create a personal workspace to use the database during the trial. Instructions are on the home page of the database.

The trial provides access to the EASI ® Standard Package, which includes data from the year 2000, 2006 Estimates, 2011 Projections, and the MRI & EASI Life Stage Clusters.

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

Mediamark Research (MRI) produces current estimates of usage and consumption (propensity) for thousands of very specific and detailed products, including actual brand data, details of frequency of usage, and more. Our data provider EASI ® (Easy Analytic Software, Inc) annually prepares estimates for about 3,000+ MRI categories of propensities using their updated demographic estimates. EASI’s models use their own Block Group demographic estimates to update these potential results (propensity to buy, expenditures, etc.).

EASI/Mediamark Research Inc. (MRI) Propensity Data incorporates the following data:
EASI/MRI Automotive
EASI/MRI Beverages
EASI/MRI Sports
EASI/MRI Ailments, Remedies
EASI/MRI Apparel
EASI/MRI Appliances
EASI/MRI Attitudes/Lifestyles
EASI/MRI Baby
EASI/MRI Computers
EASI/MRI Electronics
EASI/MRI Family Restaurants
EASI/MRI Fast Food
EASI/MRI Financial
EASI/MRI Grocery
EASI/MRI Insurance
EASI/MRI Internet
EASI/MRI Leisure
EASI/MRI Media
EASI/MRI Personal Care
EASI/MRI Pets
EASI/MRI Purchasing
EASI/MRI Telephony
EASI/MRI Travel
EASI/MRI Video

Life Stage Clusters are a neighborhood classification system based on the crucial factors (84 Possible Life Stages based upon: Age of Head of Households; Marital Status; and Household Income) that determine life’s key decisions.

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