What WAS New at OSU Libraries - 2000

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What WAS New: July 2000 - December 2000

Pauling Centenary Celebration

A website with information about the Pauling Centenary Celebration is now available at http://pauling.library.orst.edu.

11/3/2000

New Journals for 2001

A list of new journal subscriptions for 2001 is now available at http://osulibrary.orst.edu/collection_development/newjournals2001.htm.

11/13/2000

Printing Services and Prices, Fall 2000

Beginning on September 5, 2000, the Valley Library will introduce new printing services for students, faculty, staff, and the general public.

  • Users will be able to pay for copies by using their OSU ID card or an OSU convenience card
  • The price for photocopies will increase
  • Four new microform readers with new printers will be connected to the new payment system
  • There will be a per page charge for laser printing in the Information Commons

For more information about Valley Library printing services, go to: http://osulibrary.orst.edu/computing/prinfact.htm.

9/11/2000

Pauling Centenary Celebration

A website with information about the Pauling Centenary Celebration is now available at http://pauling.library.orst.edu.

11/3/2000

Finalized Journal Cancellations for 2000

The list of cancelled journal titles has been finalized. The list can be viewed at Journal cancellations effective 1-2001. Notification of cancellation will go to our vendors by September 30, to terminate our subscription at the end of 2000.

The reason for cancellation of subscription is budgetary. Costs for periodical subscriptions are increasing at a higher rate than our collections budget. A proposed list was posted for faculty comment during spring term. The list was modified based upon faculty commentary. Overall, titles were chosen for cancellation based upon a number of factors, including high cost, relatively low use by faculty and availability elsewhere in Oregon.

Questions can be directed to Bonnie Allen, Associate University Librarian for Collections and Technical Services at .

8/21/2000

Chemical Abstracts via SciFinder

OSU now has access to the SciFinder Scholar service. SciFinder Scholar provides electronic searching of Chemical Abstracts (CA) and the CAS Registry file. CA is the world's largest and most up-to-date collection of chemical information, with nearly 16 million abstracts of journal articles, patents, and more. CAS Registry contains more than 24,000,000 substance records, including more than 16,000,000 organic and inorganic substances and 4,000,000 biosequences. The Registry is the world's largest collection of organic substance records.

Access to SciFinder and Chemical Abstracts is restricted to on-campus users, including the OSU modem pool.

If you are not in the Valley Library, you must download SciFinder Scholar before accessing the database.

Additional information about accessing SciFinder can be found at this link.

7/18/2000

What WAS New: January 2000 - May 2000

Trial of Standard & Poors Database

The Orbis Committee on Electronic Resources has set up a 90-day trial of the 11 Standard & Poors database products. The trial will end August 16, 2000.

The URL is: http://0-www.netadvantage.standardandpoors.com.oasis.orst.edu/
User ID: 4444eiei
Password: dashing

The following databases are included in this trial (Items in bold are available in print in the Valley Library):

Bond Guide; Corporation Records; Dividend Record; Earnings Guide; Industry Surveys; Mutual Fund Reports; The OUTLOOK; Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives; Security Dealers of North America; Stock Guide; Stock Reports

Information about these databases can be found by clicking on the link to Advantage Publications on the left hand of the main page.

Comments, suggestions and recommendations should be sent to Laurel Kristick, (541) 737-7276, .

5/19/2000

Printing in the Valley Library

Information about how to conserve paper in the library is now available at http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/computing/printtips.htm. Patrons are encouraged to take advantage of this information, in the interest of conserving both time and paper.

5/18/2000

TableBase Database Subscription

OSU Libraries now has a subscription to TableBase. TableBase is a database comprised of tabular information of a strategic nature. Every record has a unique table title written by RDS staff which aids users in making precise selection of tables that meet their searching needs. Many of the table records also have textual content which supports the data in the tables. The tables provide information such as: market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics. Tables are drawn from the more than 1000 sources that go into the Business & Industry database and from statistical annuals, brokerage reports, trade association reports, and governmental reports. Tables are easy to find in TableBase because the table data is the focus of the record - we index the contents of the table - not the contents of the text that may accompany the table. This results in extremely accurate results when searching for tabular information related to companies, industries, products, markets and demographics.

To access TableBase, go to http://0-search.rdsinc.com.oasis.orst.edu/login and click on the log in button. No login or password is needed if you are on campus, coming in through the OSU modem pool, or have set up your web browser as a proxy server (see /offcampus/remote.htm for instructions on remote access to library databases).

4/13/2000

Trial Access to Grangers World of Poetry Web Index

The Orbis Committee for Electronic Research has arranged for a trial of the Granger's World of Poetry web-based poetry index. It is being considered as a replacement for the PoemFinder resource. The trial will run through April 30, 2000.

The following publications are included in this electronic work:

  • The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Anthologies, editions 8-11
  • The Columbia Granger's® Index to Poetry in Collected and Selected Works
  • The Columbia Granger's® Guide to Poetry Anthologies, 2d edition
  • The Columbia Granger's® Dictionary of Poetry Quotations
  • The Classic Hundred Poems: All-Time Favorites

Forty-six of the biographies and one hundred of the commentaries from The Classic Hundred Poems have been adapted for Granger's® Online, and some biographies are based on articles in The Columbia Encyclopedia. Otherwise, all commentaries and biographies were written specially for this electronic work and have never appeared in print.

Please send your comments and recommendations to .

4/13/2000

Web of Science Trial May 11-May 30

The OSU Libraries has arranged for a trial of the ISI Web of Science database. This trial is scheduled to run through May 30, 2000.

The URL to access the Web of Science trial sever is http://wos.isitrial.com. Access is IP-based and is available to all computers on campus and off-campus for OSU faculty and students who use the OSU modem pool or have set up their browser to use the library's proxy server.

The trial covers all three citation databases - Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index for the years: 1975-1999 data, plus all 2000 year-to-date weekly updates.

With the Easy Search option under the home page for Web of Science, you can search by topic (keywords from the title or abstract), person (all authors of an article are searchable), and place (the institutions the authors are affiliated with). Under the Full Search option, it is possible to search by keywords, author name, journal title, author affiliation, or cited reference.

Please Note: Trial access is limited to three simultaneous users. Any subsequent attempts to access the database after three users are logged on will receive a message that the maximum limit of concurrent users is already in effect. For this reason, we strongly recommend that all participants use the LOGOFF button at the end of each search session when they finish reviewing the product. This immediately frees the session for the next user. (The LOGOFF button is also found on the Web of Science Homepage.)

Product Feedback: ISI encourages all participants to use the automated survey, which can be accessed after pressing the LOGOFF button. Once the LOGOFF button is pressed, you will see a hotlink in the text (feedback). Accessing this hotlink will take you to a survey page on ISI's Homepage. Comments can also be sent to .

5/11/2000

Oxford English Dictionary Web-Version Trial

The OSU Libraries have set up a trial of the web-version of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). This trial is scheduled to run through May 31, 2000.

Information about OED Online:
The Oxford English Dictionary, the world's leading authority on the history and development of the English language since 1150, is now available online to subscribers.

In addition to offering unparalleled access to the wealth of material contained in the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary and 3-volume Additions Series, online publication enables the 'treasure-house' of the English language to move with the times as never before.

For the first time since it was completed in 1928, the Oxford English Dictionary is being completely revised; every word and every sense is being fully reviewed, and new words added, to take account of the latest changes in language and scholarship. New material from the £34 million (US $55 million) revision programme, which began in 1993, will be released quarterly, offering online subscribers a unique opportunity to follow the progress of the revision project.

Features and benefits of OED Online:

  • See at least 1,000 new and revised entries each quarter
  • Search the equivalent of over 20 volumes of information with speed and ease
  • Display entries according to your needs - for the first time you can turn pronunciation, etymologies, variant spellings, and quotations on and off
  • Compare revised entries with entries from the Second Edition to see how the language has changed.

The estimated annual cost of this database for OSU is $3,500 (this is based a consortial price of .23 per student FTE).

Comments, questions, suggestions and recommendations should be sent to .

5/9/2000

Past Masters Philosophy Database Trial

The Orbis Committee on Electronic Resources (CER) has set up a trial of Past Masters, a full-text resource of philosophers' works. The trial will run through May 31, 2000.

The URL for this trial is http://library.nlx.com. Access is IP-based, so no userid or password is required for computers on the OSU campus.

About Past Masters: InteLex Corporation's Past Masters series represents the largest collection of electronic texts in philosophy in the world, with important databases in political theory, education, religious studies, economics and classics. The series is being used in over 600 schools in 42 countries by individual scholars, departments, libraries and library consortia.

Comments, recommendations, suggestions, and questions should be forwarded to Laurel Kristick at .

5/2/2000

Trial of Bowker's Books in Print

The Orbis Committee on Electronic Resources (CER) has set up a trial of Bowker's Books in Print. The trial will run through May 23, 2000.

Click on the search button on the upper right part of the screen.

  • Login = orbis
  • Password = orbis

This version of BIP includes book reviews from the following of sources:

  • Publishers Weekly
  • Library Journal
  • School Library Journal
  • Kirkus
  • CHOICE
  • Booklist
  • Quill & Quire
  • Boston Book Review
  • The Horn Book
  • Reference and Research Book News
  • Sci-Tech Book News
  • University Press Book News

Please send your comments, recommendations, and suggestions to .

4/18/2000