Academic Libraries Program

Academic Trials 

• Spring Preview April - May
  
• Over 90 databases and resources to try!
• Search by vendor, category or title

Calls for Participation - April 2009

• JAMAEvidence  -  for hospitals and medical schools, nursing programs
• eHRAF World Culture or Archaelogy databases - IP trials upon request through June
• Gale Encyclopedia of Religion - 50% discount for one time purchase via OHIONET

Changes - Responses needed

• AVERY  Index to Architecture Periodicals - considering changing to HW Wilson - to cross search with related databases for  July 2009
• American National Biography - NPR renewal - confirm your commitment
• NAXOS  Music Library - renewal July 1 - confirm your user level
• HW Wilson Education Index - NPR renewal - confirm your commitment

Continuing Programs, June-July renewals you may join now:

• Accessible Archives
• AccessScience
• Alexander Street Press -all titles
• Children’s Literature Comprehensive Database
• Chronicle of Higher Education
  
• Chronicle of Philanthropy
• College Source
• Columbia University Press databases
• CQ Press online titles
• Ebsco Econlit
• Ebsco Mental Measurements Tests in Print
• Ebsco PscyCritiques
• Ebsco Scientific American
• Elsevier GeoBase
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encyclopedia of Astronomy & Astrophysics
• Factiva
• Facts on File
• Gale databases
• Geographic Research - Simply Map
• Hein Online
• Hoover's Dun & Bradstreet
• HRAF World Culture
• HW Wilson all titles
• HW Wilson Education NPR
• LexisNexis African American History, Women's History
• Medical Letter
• Morningstar
• Nature Online via OVID.
• Naxos NML, Jazz, Spoken Word, Sheet Music
• Oxford University Press - all online titles
• Paratext Reference Universe
• Proquest Criminal Justice Abstracts
• Proquest Ethnic Newswatch
• Proquest GenderWatch
• Serials Solutions
• Taylor & Francis titles
• Ulrichs Web
• Women Writers Project (Brown Univ)

   Medical and Health Sciences

• AccessMedicine
• Access Surgery
• AccessEmergencyMedicine
• AccessPharmacy
• Evidence Based Medicine (Cochrane's) from OVID
• Gale Nursing Resource Center
• OVID journals
• OVID Lippincott collections
• OVID Health & Psychosocial Instruments
• OVID Evidence Based Medicing (Cochranes)
• Proquest Nursing & Allied Health
• WebMD

Under Consideration

• AccessEngineering
• AccessAnesthesiology
• ALA  Guide to Reference
• Biomed Central Faculty 1000
• Embase
• JSTOR
  
• Kompass
• SWETS Counter

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Inactive - no groups

• Encyclopedia of Islam (Gale)
• Gallup Brain
• Gov Search (Carroll) - no longer sold to libraries - but available via Ebsco
• Keesing's Online (Keesing)
• NERAC
• Who's Who on the Web (Marquis)

Current CIRM Report

Oxford University Press – New Releases

• Report to CIRM 10/2008 - [PDF]
• Report to CIRM 08/2008 - [PDF]
• Report to CIRM 06/2008 - [PDF]
• Report to CIRM 05/2008 - [PDF]
• Report to CIRM 04/2008 - [PDF]
• Report to CIRM 02/2008 - [PDF]

Statistics Reports

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Cooperative Collection Management Survey Tool

cmSurvey - http://members.ohionet.org/hs/

For information on the Reference Database Program, contact:
Christine Morris (christine@ohionet.org) at 800-686-8975, ext. 29.
Mary Conroy (maryc@ohionet.org) at 800-686-8975, ext. 16