BGSU University Libraries News

The Jerome Library will be open for extended hours December 1-18 to help students and groups prepare for finals.  Please visit the library hours web page for a list of building and service times.

Oral History Online

Search indexed and full-text transcripts of English-language oral histories, some of which are also linked to digital audio or video files. Examples include Gerald Ford discussing the Cold War, Chicago architect Tadao Ando discussing his work, and Justice Thurgood Marshall discussing the Civil Rights Movement. For more information, and to access the resource, visit:

http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=e1000469~S0

Trial active until January 10, 2010

 Biography Reference Center

Full-text biographies for more than 450,000 people, from Confucius to Miley Cyrus. Many also include photographs. For more information, and to access the resource, visit:

http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=e1000468~S0

Trial active until March 31, 2010

We are also negotiating a license for the following new database:

HeinOnline: U.S. Department of the Interior Collection

HeinOnline provides full text access to primary source documents related to U.S. law and legislation. BGSU is subscribing to the U.S. Department of the Interior Collection, which contains reports, legislation, legal decisions, papers and policies published between 1789 and 1995 by this government agency. Particular emphasis is on U.S. government policy related to Native North Americans.

For more information about HeinOnline or to connect to the database, go to:

http://maurice.bgsu.edu/record=e1000464~S0

 For an overview, watch the “Quick Start Guide to HeinOnline” video on the HeinOnline YouTube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/HeinOnline08

 Please try all three of these resources and let us know what you think! Contact Linda Brown, Collections Coordinator, at lbrown@bgsu.edu with your feedback.

OhioLINK is currently experiencing a network outage in Columbus that has interrupted service to all OhioLINK resources. Network engineers are working to restore access. This outage affects all OhioLINK databases, the Electronic Journal Center, the Electronic Book Center, the Digital Media Center, the Digital Resource Commons, and the Find It! service. If you are trying to connect to a database or ejournal and are having trouble, please try again later. They hope to restore access later this evening.

The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center (EJC) is currently experiencing an outage due to a hardware problem.

This same problem is also affecting access to several OhioLINK research databases, including:
Art Full Text
ATLA Religion Database
Compendex
Gale Business & Industry
GeoRef
Inspec
PAIS
Sociological Abstracts

Access to BIOSIS, ERIC and PsycINFO is NOT affected.

OhioLINK is aware of the problem, and technicians are working to restore access.

The library’s citation management system, RefWorks, is currently unavailable due to a server outage at the vendor’s site. RefWorks is aware of the problem and is working to restore access. If you are trying to access your RefWorks account, please wait and try later in the day. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Due to scheduled vendor maintenance, LexisNexis Academic and LexisNexis Congressional will be unavailable from 9:00pm Saturday, October 1, to 5:00am Sunday, November 1, 2009.

We apologize for any inconvenience.