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Get ready for your next big test or job interview with LearningExpress Library. LearningExpress features online, interactive practice tests for the: ASVAB, Civil Service Careers, GED, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, PPST Praxis I, TOEFL, U.S. Citizenship and much more. LearningExpress’ online, interactive practice tests offer instant scoring, detailed answer explanations, and a personalized analysis that identifies your strengths and weaknesses in each major content area so you’ll know how to prepare.
LearningExpress also includes courses, career building tools, writing aids and helpful e-books.
To use LearningExpress Library, you first set up your own individual account. If you are off-campus, use the OhioLINK remote authentication proxy URL (or your institution’s off-campus access method) to connect to LearningExpress, create an account, and then log into LearningExpress with your individual username and password.
LearningExpress Library is available to all OhioLINK users and all Ohioans as part of the Ohio Web Library.
June 27th, 2008
The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) and OSU Libraries are honored to host the 11th Biennial meeting of the United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN). The meeting, which will be held at the Shisler Conference Center in Wooster beginning Sunday, April 27 through Wednesday, April 30, carries the theme “Tradition in Transition: Information Fueling the Future of Agbiosciences.” Speakers include Dennis Keeney, senior fellow at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy; Bruce Dale, editor of Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biorefining and head of the Biomass Conversion Research Laboratory at Michigan State University; Stephen Myers, Director of the Ohio Bioproducts Innovation Center; Ann Christy, professor, Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Ohio State University (OSU); Clive Edwards, OSU Professor of Entomology and director of the soil ecology program; Deborah Stinner, coordinator of OSU’s Organic Food and Farming Education and Research program; Randy James, Geauga County Extension Educator and author of Why Cows Learn Dutch; and David Kline, Amish farmer, author of several books, and editor of Farming Magazine. The closing speaker will be Tomas Lipinski, Co-Director and Associate Professor, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee. Complementing the plenary sessions will be contributed papers, panels and posters selected from proposals submitted by attendees. Numerous vendors will be exhibiting at the conference and providing generous support.
Following the conclusion of the USAIN meeting, partners participating in AgNIC will hold their annual meeting. AgNIC is a voluntary alliance and partnership of nearly 60 member institutions and organizations working to offer quick and reliable access to quality agricultural information and sources.
April 25th, 2008
The Online Computer Library Center, Inc., (OCLC) is looking for people willing to demonstrate and discuss how they conduct research for a paper, project or publication.
The one to two-hour in-person interviews will be held in Room 244A of the Sullivant Library, at the corner of North High Street and 15th Avenue, or the Prior Health Sciences Library at 376 W. 10th Ave. Interviews will be scheduled the weeks of April 7 and April 14.
Each session will take 1 to 2 hours.
Participants should be:
•Undergraduate or graduate students, or instructors
•Non-professionals in the library or database searching
Library employees, including student employees, are not eligible to participate.
Participants will be asked to comment while doing their own research at the library or their office. Participants will also need to bring a laptop capable of a wireless connection to the Internet. Comments will be recorded with the participant’s consent.
If you’re interested, please contact Mike Prasse, OCLC, at ulab@oclc.org.
April 2nd, 2008
Speaker: Dr. E. Gordon Gee, President, The Ohio State University
“Securing the Future: Envisioning the Role of Land-Grant Universities”
Date: April 15, 2008
Time: 3-5pm
Location: Blackwell Inn & Conference Center, The Ohio State University
We are pleased to announce that President E. Gordon Gee will give the 5th Annual Patterson Lecture. President Gee was instrumental in the establishment of Ohio State’s outreach and engagement efforts during his first term in office. He will share his insights on the current and future state of the 21st century engaged land-grant university.
Register online. Deadline: April 8. For information, call 614/688-3041, e-mail outreach@osu.edu, or visit the Office of Outreach and Engagement web site.
The James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture honors former Board of Trustee member Jim Patterson and the cause to which he is most committed, a vibrant University fulfilling its land-grant mission in an ever-changing world. The lecture brings to campus annually a prominent figure to speak to the range of challenges facing land-grant institutions in the 21st century and beyond. Mr. Patterson served on the University’s Board of Trustees from 1994 to 2003 and served as Chair of the Board 2002-2003.
March 12th, 2008
Staying up with your own field, much less with the other disciplines in agricultural and related sciences, is a challenging task. Subscribing to alert services, journal tables of contents and other automated information services are useful tools. The content specialists at CABI, the organization that produces the abstracting and indexing service CAB Direct, offer a new current awareness tool called “Hand picked…and carefully sorted.” This blog is written by specialists and highlights new research areas, interesting publications and what they call “signposts”– new information that we need to pay attention to. Recent topics include “nanotechnology in food” and “organic biofuels”. You can subscribe to this blog as an RSS feed.
March 6th, 2008
The 2008 OARDC Annual Research Conference will be held in Wooster on Thursday, April 17, 2008. The theme of the conference is “Recasting Our Agbioscience Research Agenda: Integrated Projects.”
A graduate student poster competition is being held in conjunction with the conference. Interested students should see the guidelines and deadlines for participation. Cash prizes will be awarded and the winners will be announced at the conference.
Faculty, staff and students are encouraged to register for the conference by April 7.
February 14th, 2008
The OSU Libraries are pleased to offer “WorldCat Local,” Web access to the world’s richest database, listing over one billion items.
Basic features associated with WorldCat include:
- A simple search box
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Friendly, easy-to-use results display, including “faceted browsing”
- Searches for materials at OSU, OhioLINK (Ohio libraries shared catalog; includes 86 academic libraries not including OSU), and libraries worldwide
- Displays the availability of materials
- Allows requesting of materials
- Finds articles and provides links to full-text articles online
- Result sets that bring multiple versions of a work together under one record
- Citation formatting options
See the “What’s this” link for more details about the features.
The main change you’ll see is the new search box on the library home page, now displaying search results from WorldCat Local. You can still search the OSU catalog via the OSCAR interface by clicking the link just below the box, named “Search OSU Catalog”.
Let us know what you think about WorldCat Local. Please complete the survey linked in the “what’s this” link near the search box and at the upper right hand corner of the pilot pages, called “Survey – Your voice counts!”
February 4th, 2008
Plant Management Network announces the launch of its next-generation resource for those involved in soybean production and management. Focus on Soybean is an online-only web portal for growers, crop consultants, and researchers seeking information on producing healthy, high-yielding soybean crops. The central feature of the site is its educational webcasts. These currently include 15 narrated presentations totaling more than five hours of talks targeted toward consultants and producers. All are authored by university extension specialists recognized for their expertise and research related to soybean management practices.
January 11th, 2008
From InfoFarm: the NAL Blog: I’ve been watching a lot of baseball lately (Go Tribe!), and in between pitches last night, I found myself thinking again about how the grounds crew cuts those designs into the stadium grass. Cleveland’s Jacobs Field showed only a simple checkerboard pattern, but earlier in the week, Fenway Park was sporting two perfect “sox,” looking as if they’d been hand-stitched into the infield. –more–
October 19th, 2007
Peter Young, Director of the National Agricultural Library (NAL) announces InfoFarm: The NAL Blog a new blog and invites partners and customers worldwide to join in a conversation with NAL staff on a wide range of topics. “We want to have a conversation, one that’s more like a chat on the front porch and less like a meeting in the boardroom. From the library side, we’ll share a bit about what we do, how our day went (professionally speaking, of course), some nifty thing we learned, or a compelling story in the news. In return, we hope to hear from you. Share your experiences with us as an institution, with your efforts to find information, or with your life and work in the world of agriculture, food, nutrition, animal care, the environment, whatever. The result, we believe, will be a mutually beneficial dialogue, a compelling exchange of ideas and maybe even an entertaining break in your day.”
October 19th, 2007
Get ready for your next big test or job interview with LearningExpress Library. LearningExpress features online, interactive practice tests for the: ASVAB, Civil Service Careers, GED, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, PPST Praxis I, TOEFL, U.S. Citizenship and much more. LearningExpress’ online, interactive practice tests offer instant scoring, detailed answer explanations, and a personalized analysis that identifies your strengths and weaknesses in each major content area so you’ll know how to prepare.
LearningExpress also includes courses, career building tools, writing aids and helpful e-books.
To use LearningExpress Library, you first set up your own individual account. If you are off-campus, use the OhioLINK remote authentication proxy URL (or your institution’s off-campus access method) to connect to LearningExpress, create an account, and then log into LearningExpress with your individual username and password.
LearningExpress Library is available to all OhioLINK users and all Ohioans as part of the Ohio Web Library.
October 15th, 2007
University Libraries, Academic Affairs and the Faculty Club will host the fifth annual Faculty Recognition Program reception from 3:30-5 p.m. Thursday (10/18) at the Faculty Club Grand Lounge to honor all Ohio State faculty granted tenure or promotion in 2007/08. The reception is open to the university community and guests. Faculty honorees have the opportunity to select a book or a bound journal volume from the University Libraries’ collection to be book-plated in their name in recognition of their accomplishments. Honorees from CFAES, OAES and OSUE include Michael Boehm, Joshua Bomser, John Cardina, Gregory Davis, Charles Goebel, Gary Graham, Gregory La Barge, Jeffrey LeJeune, Lydia Medeiros, Richard Moore, Matthew Robers, Brian Roe, Hua Wang, and Steven Wu.
October 4th, 2007
The OSU Libraries has added new access to the backfiles of the ISI databases: Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) and Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI). For SCI and SSCI, database coverage now extends back to 1965; AHCI begins with 1975.
September 24th, 2007
Starting September 19, the Ohio State University Libraries are offering research assistance through Instant Messaging! Just add our screen name “ohiostaterefdesk” to your buddy list in AIM, Google Talk, MSN, or Yahoo. You can IM a Librarian Monday-Thursday from noon to midnight, Friday from noon to 5 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 8 p.m. The FAES Librarians are also available via IM. See the blog to find out who’s online. For more information, see http://library.osu.edu/help/im.php
September 19th, 2007
FROM CABI:
Hand Picked and Carefully Sorted is the place where the content specialists who put together CAB Abstracts, (and many other wonderful research tools from CABI) try to highlight just some of the vast amount of research information that goes into the products that we make.
We are doing this because, to quote Bruce Sterling:
What’s important — increasingly important — is the process by which you figure out what to look at. This is the beginning of the real and true economics of information. Not who owns the books, who prints the books, who has the holdings. The crux here is access, not holdings. And not even access itself, but the signposts that tell you what to access — what to pay attention to. In the Information Economy everything is plentiful — except attention.
Hand picked… and carefully sorted is intended to be a signpost. We are using it for ourselves..and we hope that it will be useful to you as well.
August 23rd, 2007
Interlibrary Services is pleased to announce expansion of our FREE Article Express service; no more fees for articles that we scan from our own library collections (with the exception of HEA items). If it’s not already online, we’ll scan it for you!
Visit our new web pages to see details/limits and make requests!!
June 20th, 2007
NASA’s Johnson Space Center invited The Kitchen Sisters to visit its “hidden kitchen.” On the eve of NASA’s scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis, The Kitchen Sisters present a brief history of space food.
Read or listen to the rest of the story from NPR.
June 7th, 2007
Cell Press, an imprint of Elsevier, is offering a free print subscription to Cell. As a benefit of the site license to Cell Online managed by the OSU Libraries, any researcher, student, or faculty member in North America affiliated with Ohio State is entitled to receive a print subscription - normally a $179 value - absolutely free. To sign up for the offer, go to www.Cell.com/freesub
May 29th, 2007
Biotechnology for Biofuels will publish research on ways to improve plant and biological conversion systems for biomass fuel production.
BioMed Central, the world’s largest publisher of open access, peer-reviewed journals, is pleased to announce the impending launch of Biotechnology for Biofuels. The new journal is the first of its kind to focus exclusively on understanding and advancing the application of biotechnology to improve plant and biological conversion systems for production of fuels from biomass. A peer-reviewed, open access journal, Biotechnology for Biofuels will begin accepting article submissions this summer. (more…)
May 23rd, 2007
Wouldn’t it be nice to know who is citing your work, or other important work in your field of research? Finding and tracking the seminal highly cited work in your field is easy if you use the citation indexes in the Web of Science!
Don Sechler, a member of the Thomson Scientific/ISI customer education department, will be at the Prior Health Sciences Library to provide instruction on the navigation and uses of the Web of Science.
In the short training session you will learn how to search for your topic, papers that you have written, papers published by a company or university, and papers that have cited your work. You will learn how to search and navigate, how to do a cited reference search to find the number of papers that cited your work, and how to find journal impact factors. You will also learn to save search strategies, create citation alerts and to print, save, and export your results. How the databases are created, how the journals are selected, and ISI’s editorial policies will also be covered.
Sessions will be held on:
April 24, 2007
Session (1) 9-10:30am
Session (2) 1-2:30pm
Room 200 Prior Health Sciences Library
Register for ONE of the above sessions online at: http://library.med.ohio-state.edu or call 2-4796 or e-mail Rebecca.Ayers@osumc.edu
Brought to you by the Health Sciences Library & CKM
April 19th, 2007
4th Annual James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture
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Speaker: Martin C. Jischke, Purdue University
“Adapting Justin Morrill’s Vision to a New Century: The Imperative of Change for Land-Grant Universities”
May 7, 2007, 3-5pm, Huntington Club, Ohio Stadium
Register online. Deadline: May 1. For information, call 614/688-3041, e-mail outreach@osu.edu, or visit the Office of Outreach and Engagement web site.
The James F. Patterson Land-Grant University Lecture honors former Board of Trustee member Jim Patterson and the cause to which he is most committed, a vibrant University fulfilling its land-grant mission in an ever-changing world. The lecture brings to campus annually a prominent figure to speak to the range of challenges facing land-grant institutions in the 21st century and beyond. Mr. Patterson served on the University’s Board of Trustees from 1994 to 2003 and served as Chair of the Board 2002-2003.
April 6th, 2007
The new version has JUST been released in beta!
AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics collects, indexes, and electronically distributes full text copies of scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food supply, natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, agricultural trade, and economic development.
The majority of items in AgEcon Search are working papers, conference papers, and journal articles, although other types such as books chapters and government documents are included. AgEcon Search will serve as the permanent archive for this literature and encourages authors and organizations to use this electronic library as the storehouse for additional appropriate scholarly electronic works.
AgEcon Search is co-sponsored by the Department of Applied Economics and the University Libraries at University of Minnesota and the American Agricultural Economics Association.
April 5th, 2007
Please note the upcoming presentation!!
Date: March 27th at 7 PM: Be Careful What You Wish For: The Mainstreaming of Organic Food
Location: Room 103 Kottman Hall and by video conference: Thorne Hall on the OSU Wooster Campus (2nd floor Conference Room).
Abstract: Organic food has grown into a $15 billion-a-year industry since the USDA established certification standards just over four years ago. What was once a “tiny movement to create a more ecologically sustainable, socially just and humane food system,” as Dr. Howard put it in a recent article, has become a sector of the food market occupied by the traditional multinational corporations that previously dominated the rest of the industry, either as a result of acquisition of organic pioneers or the creation of new product lines in compliance with the letter of the USDA Organic standards. On March 27, Dr. Howard will discus the impact this mainstreaming of the organic label has had on the vision of the original organic movement and the power of the consumer to further advance the organic ideal.
March 23rd, 2007
The 2007 OARDC Annual Research Conference will be held at The Blackwell, 2110 Tuttle Park Place, Columbus, OH 43210, on Thursday, April 19, 2007. The theme of the conference is Ohios Future in Renewable Energy and the Bioeconomy.
The annual Graduate Student Research Project Poster Competition will be held in conjunction with the conference.
Go to the conference webpage for more information and to register for the conference and the poster competition
March 5th, 2007
Rachel Carson is considered by many to be the mother of modern-day ecology. This year, to mark the 100th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s birth, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, working with the Friends of the National Conservation Training Center, will celebrate the achievements of its most notable employee by launching the Rachel Carson Online Book Club.
Beginning in March and continuing through November 2007, the online book club will focus on the life and work of Rachel Carson including her role as a female leader in science and government. Through the study of her writing, the Book Club will provide an opportunity for dialogue and discussion of current environmental issues in light of Carson’s legacy.
For more information on how to participate, view the book club Web site at: http://rcbookclub.blogspot.com
For more information on how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Rachel Carson, please visit our website at http://www.fws.gov/rachelcarson/
February 27th, 2007
Students:
Would you like to participate in a competition to produce an award-winning research project, working with an OSU librarian?
Faculty:
Will you inform your students about this opportunity and encourage them to submit their projects for evaluation?
If your answer is YES, here are some additional benefits to consider:
Recognition — The winning project team (author, the student’s instructor, and the collaborating librarian) will be acknowledged at an award ceremony. A prize of $1,000 will also be presented ($750 for the student author; $250 for the instructor).
Accessibility — The winning project will be submitted to the OSU Knowledge Bank repository, where it will have a permanent home and Web address. This site is also indexed by Google, so your project will be available to a worldwide audience.
Everyone wins - Even if you don’t win the top prize, we believe that the process will help you to produce a much better research product, which can certainly improve your course grade.
Please click here for information on how you can participate!
February 22nd, 2007
Science.gov is a search engine for government science information and research results. Currently in its fourth generation, Science.gov provides search of more than 50 million pages of science information with just one query, and is a gateway to over 1,800 scientific Web sites.
Science.gov 1.0 was launched in December 2002, providing for the first time wide public access and a unified search of the governments vast stores of scientific and technical information. Science.gov is an interagency initiative of 16 U.S. government science organizations within 12 Federal agencies. These agencies form the voluntary Science.gov Alliance.
In May 2004 Version 2.0 was launched, introducing real-time relevancy ranking to government science retrieval. This technology, funded by the Department of Energy, helps citizens sort through the governments reservoirs of research and return results most likely to meet individual needs. An advanced search capability and other enhancements were added.
A free and convenient “Alert” service was released in February 2005, allowing citizens to receive e-mail alerts about the most current science developments in their areas of interest. Up to 25 relevant results from selected information sources can be delivered. Results are displayed in the Alert email and in a personalized Alert Archive, which stores six weeks of alerts results. In the Archive, past activity can be reviewed and Alert profiles edited.
Science.gov 3.0 took relevancy ranked search to a higher level of precision. Launched in November 2005, Version 3.0 provided more refined search queries of federal science databases. Science.gov 3.0 deploys a sophisticated method for ranking science query results by using a complex system of metadata elements, when available, including information within title, author, date, abstract and/or other keyword identifiers. In addition, greatly enhanced fielded searching and the extensive Boolean capabilities offer new search options for Science.gov users.
In February 2007, the Science.gov Alliance launched version 4.0, which allowed even further refinement of search queries. For the first time, patrons could search within their original results. In addition, the relevancy ranking algorithms became more sophisticated, providing ranking of the entire full text of documents on sites where searchable full text resides. Date of the document was priority-weighted for ranking purposes. A new feature allows patrons to share search results via e-mail with colleagues and friends.
February 20th, 2007
University Libraries, the Office of Academic Affairs, and the Faculty Club will host the 4th annual Faculty Recognition Program Reception, February 6, 3:30-5 p.m. at the Faculty Club Grand Lounge, 181 S. Oval Drive, to honor all Ohio State University faculty granted tenure or promotion in 2006/07. The 136 honorees, including regular and clinical faculty from all OSU campuses, can select a book from the University Libraries’ collection to be book-plated in their name in recognition of their accomplishments. Books not owned will be purchased for the Libraries. Honorees can also include a statement on why the book was significant to them. A commemorative program listing the honorees, books selected, and personal statements will be available at the reception and upon request and become part of the University Libraries’ Knowledge Bank. The reception is open to the university community and guests. Welcoming comments will be provided by President Karen Holbrook.
Those being honored from the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences are: Alvarez, Valente B., Apsley, David K., Balasubramaniam, V.M., Basta, Nicholas T., Connors, James J., Delwiche, Jeannine F., Ferrari, Theresa M., Gardner, David S., Grewal, Parwinder S., Haab, Timothy C., Hooker, Neal H., James, Randall E., Jones, Michelle L., Kamoun, Sophien, Kelbaugh, Beverly, Mader, Sharon L., Martin, Jay F., McSpadden Gardener, Brian B., Pratt, Richard C., Rodewald, Amanda D., Sohngen, Brent L., Stockinger, Eric J., Vodovotz, Yael.
January 31st, 2007
OSU faculty, staff, and students from the Columbus campus can now receive FREE electronic delivery of journal articles:
* not available at OSU (traditional ILL service)
* located at either off-campus location: OSU Book Depository or Ackerman Library
* located only at a regional campus library (ARD, ATI, LIM, MANS, MAR, NWK)
There is a $5 charge, payable by BuckID or 100W, for article requests filled from other on-campus OSU collections. For more details, visit the Interlibrary Services’ Article Express web page.
January 21st, 2007
Governing the transatlantic conflict over agricultural biotechnology : contending coalitions, trade liberalisation and standard setting / by Joseph Murphy and Les Levidow, 2006
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Taste, trade and technology : the development of the international meat industry since 1840 / by Richard Perren, 2006
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Pesticide selectivity, health and the environment / by Bill Carlile, 2006
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Fish diseases and disorders / Edited by P.T.K. Woo, 2006
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Perennial solutions : a grower’s guide to perennial production / by Paul Pilon, 2006
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Subtropical and dry climate plants / by Martyn Rix, 2006
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These books will be available for check-out at FAES at your convenience!
January 11th, 2007
We have recently ordered “The Geography of American Poverty: Is There a Need for Place-based Policies?” by Mark D. Partridge.
Dr. Partridge is the C. William Swank Chair in Rural-Urban Policy at The Ohio State University and a professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics.
Look for it on our “New Books” shelf in the next few weeks!
January 10th, 2007
On January 3, 2007, Governor Bob Taft and Ohio Agriculture Director Fred L. Dailey, along with other state and local officials, broke ground for a new state plant pathology, entomology, and seed lab. The Taft Plant Health Diagnostic Laboratory will be a state-of-the-art facility will feature a plant pathology lab, which will provide the resources to quickly identify and take action against dangerous plant pathogens and plant diseases, such as sudden oak death and soybean rust.
Construction of the project is scheduled to begin in August 2007.
Read more here.
January 5th, 2007
The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center will have a new interface for the New Year beginning January 8, 2007. Faculty, students, staff and librarians at OhioLINK member institutions can catch a sneak peek of the new interface now.
The new interface will look familiar to current EJC users, but it will also offer better performance and more functionality. New features include:
- My Articles - A function of My EJC, the My Articles features allows you to create and save your favorite articles for easy reference later.
- Password retrieval - In the old interface forgotten passwords were irretrievable. Now you can automatically generate a new one.
- Find similar articles in the EJC with just one click.
- Collapsible/Expandable panels allow for faster browsing of titles with extensive numbers of issues or long back files.
- Quick links to the complete article from both the issue and article level page helps you get the full-text article more quickly.
These oldie-but-goodie features are still available and worth trying out if you haven’t already:
- Journal alerts - Get new issue alerts via RSS feed or go to My EJC and create an account to create a list of favorite journals and set up e-mail notifications.
- My Searches - Put your research on autopilot. Save your searches and set times for the system to automatically execute them and e-mail you the results.
It is possible to migrate your saved searches from the old system to the new one. Go here for instructions on doing so.
January 3rd, 2007
Interlibrary Services is pleased to announce an expansion of free document delivery service
to include off-campus journal articles located in materials from the OSU Book Depository.
OSU faculty, staff, and students from the Columbus campus now receive FREE Article Express service for journal articles:
* not available at OSU (traditional ILL service)
* located at the off-campus OSU Book Depository
* located at the off-campus Ackerman Library
* located only at the OSU regional campus libraries (ARD, ATI, LIM, MANS, MAR, NWK)
There is a $5 charge payable by BuckID or 100W for article requests filled from other on-campus OSU collections.
Librarians and library staff are encouraged to share this information with faculty and students in the academic departments they assist.
Special thanks goes to library staff at the Book Depository for doing the scanning and to our IT staff who got the necessary equipment up and running.
December 21st, 2006
Susan ends her long career with the OSU Libraries on December 22. She came to The Ohio State University as an undergraduate, completing a B.S. in Home Economics in 1962. After completing an MLS at the University of Western Ontario (1970), Susan joined University Libraries as General Librarian and Supervisor of the Shelf List Conversion Unit, Cataloguing Information Systems Librarian and Instructor, Research and Development (1970-71). Her career here included: Information Specialist and Instructor, Mechanized Information Center (1973-78); Coordinator of Automated Library Systems (1978-99); and Head of the Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Library (1999-present). Susan was promoted to Assistant Professor (1984) and Associate Professor (1999).
Susan coordinated the work required to take the Library Control System (LCS) from an online circulation system to a full blown catalog containing serial holdings, full bibliographic records, and authority control. Because LCS was a homegrown system, written by several programmers at OIT, Susan had the ongoing responsibility of working with the programmers and others in the library to design new system functions, write specifications, and test and implement system changes. LCS was one of the earliest online catalogs, so the pioneer efforts led by Susan were of much interest to the profession. Susan’s success in enhancing LCS step by step, to the point where it could serve as OSU’s public access catalog, allowed OSU to close the card catalog before other libraries were ready to take that step. Similarly, Susan was responsible for coordinating OSU’s OhioLINK implementation, again a pioneer effort. The idea of the OhioLINK consortium and a central catalog that supported patron-initiated online borrowing was completely new, and Susan participated in writing the RFP specifications and in selecting a vendor (III) to fulfill them. She also coordinated several major initiatives that had to be completed at OSU to get us ready to join OhioLINK. Many people carried out the projects but Susan had the responsibility of coordinating everything and making sure that it got done in time.
The online catalog was the primary technology focus for much of Susan’s career, but she was responsible for other “firsts” as well — the development of the grant funded Gateway to Information, for which Susan was a project manager; the pre-Web online delivery of locally mounted reference databases; the transition from public terminals to networked public computers; the implementation of BuckID printing; support for creation of OSUL’s initial Web presence; and the expansion of the Automation Office to include staff other than Susan herself.
Those of us who were here working with her can appreciate the significance of her accomplishments and the dedication and hard work it took for her to achieve them. Susan’s persistent intellectual curiosity has served OSU well, enabling her to envision new directions and to build relationships with colleagues, such as those at OIT, to help us move in those directions. (Reprinted from OSU Libraries’ News Notes, December 19, 2006)
December 21st, 2006
Need a quick fact, illustration or overview of a topic? Try the Electronic Reference Books Collection, which now contains 501 reference books, including encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections and guides.
OhioLINK has recently added 11 new e-books to this collection including:
Genetic Engineering: A Reference Handbook Second Edition
December 13th, 2006
FROM NPR’S MORNING EDITION: At the dawn of 20th century, Owens Valley was a prime piece of California nature. Located between Mount McKinley and Death Valley, the land was lush with lots of runoff from the snow-covered Sierra Nevada mountains. But then, Los Angeles got its hands on the water and everything changed.
Read (or listen to) the full story.
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December 7th, 2006
RefWorks has launched a cool new feature! RefGrab-It works with your browser to capture bibliographic information from web pages, and gives you the option to import that data into your RefWorks account. If an ISBN number, PubMed ID or DOI exist on the web page, RefGrab-It will automatically search various web resources to get supplemental information that may be of interest to you. RefWorks may also locate RSS feeds related to that web page.
When you use RefGrab-It on a web page, it automatically opens a “temporary results page” in a new window. You can view the information and additional resources first, then decide if you want to import the data.
RefGrab-It is currently compatible with the Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox browsers. For more information about using RefGrab-It with your browser, check out the RefWorks Help page.
December 5th, 2006
OSU now has electronic access to the Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology. 47 issues are available electronically, from Volume 74, Issue 1 (1999) through the current issue, Volume 81, Issue 6 (2006).
This Journal exists to publish results of research on fruit and other perennial crops, vegetables and ornamentals in commercial, amenity and/or recreational horticulture. Papers are welcomed from both temperate and tropical countries describing original investigations of interest to those engaged in scientific research and the practice of horticulture.
Please visit the publication homepage for more information.
December 4th, 2006
The USAIN Conference focuses on information resources for agriculture and life sciences research and practice. The conference is sponsored by the United States Agricultural Information Network in order to offer librarians a forum for sharing professional information. It provides a small, collegiate atmosphere in which to discuss diverse topics, current issues, and solutions.
The conference was hosted by Cornell’s Albert R. Mann Library and was held from Sunday, October 8th, until Wednesday, October 11th, 2006, at the Hilton Garden Inn in Ithaca, NY.
Contributed papers, panel presentations, and other information from the 2006 USAIN Conference can be viewed at Cornell University Library’s Open Access Repository.
The USAIN Conference web page has the conference program available for download (PDF), as well as job postings. Check it out!
November 29th, 2006
ReefVid is a cool new resource of FREE coral reef video clips for educational use.
Whether you’re talking to scientists or school children, nothing animates a presentation more than video of the subject. With support from The Royal Society, Prof. Peter J. Mumby from the University of Exeter (UK) has acquired video footage of a variety of reef-related phenomena during research trips. The full database of over 500 clips is available at ReefVid.org and is freely available for educational and research use. Simply select clips, download them to your hard disk, and insert them in PowerPoint or other presentation software!
November 7th, 2006
The first articles in IOP’s new open-access journal, Environmental Research Letters (ERL) , were recently published. Professor Daniel M. Kammen, the Editor-in-Chief of ERL said, “As a free to read journal, ERLs prime purpose is to serve the entire environmental science community. I am delighted by the quality of these first contributions and eagerly anticipate the continued growth of this exciting new journal.”
The first content includes:
Shifts in plant dominance control carbon-cycle responses to experimental warming and widespread drought by J Harte, S Saleska and T Shih
Images of the energy future by Arthur Mason
Risks of the oil transition by A E Farrell and A R Brandt
Can there be science-based precaution? by Charles Weiss
The Bodl depression a single spot in the Sahara that provides most of the mineral dust to the Amazon forest by I Koren, Y J Kaufman, R Washington, M Todd, Y Rudich, V J Martins and D Rosenfeld
Future additions will appear on the journal’s homepage.
ERLs coverage will reflect the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of environmental science, recognizing wide-ranging contributions to the development of methods, tools and evaluation strategies relevant to the field.
The editorial direction and development of the journal are guided by a prestigious international board under the supervision of Professor Kammen (University of California, Berkeley). A full list of Advisory and Editorial Board members is located here.
We are pleased that this new journal is available to the community in an open-access format!
Any questions about ERL should be directed to erl@iop.org.
October 30th, 2006
We now have access to the online Cambridge version of Historical Statistics of the United States, where you can access data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade - quantitative facts of American History. For now, patrons can connect via a search in the OSU Library catalog.
This standard source for the quantitative facts of American history is now completely expanded and revised. The online version features the download of tables in Excel or CSV; also download entire groups of tables as a zip file.
Historical Statistics of the United States, a compendium of statistics from over 1000 sources, was last updated in 1975. It has now been expanded to include over 37,000 data series, which is three times more than the previous edition. The Millennial Edition includes dozens of new topics including slavery, American Indians, and poverty. This monumental five-volume work is now available in both print and electronic formats.
This thoroughly revised five-volume reference work reflects thirty years of new data and scholarship. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field. The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition (a single one-time purchase!) permits users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting own particular areas of interest.
October 25th, 2006
The next time you are in the FAES Library, feel free to check out our brand-new Leisure Reading Collection! In recent weeks, several students have asked which library has books for pleasure reading. Several libraries around campus have small collections of fiction books that are available to check out, including:
*Biological Sciences/Pharmacy Library
*Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Library
*Science/Engineering Library
*Sullivant Library
*Veterinary Medicine Library
The Agricultural Technical Institute Library in Wooster has had a leisure reading collection since the 1990s! This collection includes fiction and non-fiction titles, and patrons are encouraged to offer up suggestions for hardcover additions to this collection.
Come to your library … put your feet up, and read a while!
October 19th, 2006
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