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Do you have a collection of resources that you’d like to share with colleagues and students? If you’ve created these resources or have permission to digitize them, we invite you to join us in a learning community, Creating Digital Collections for Teaching, Learning and Research, sponsored by the Center for Teaching & Learning. The learning community will give you the opportunity to design a digital collection that will enhance student learning and promote your research agenda.

As well as introducing the OhioLINK/BGSU Digital Resource Center as an institutional repository platform,  we will also explore software that will support other open access resources such as electronic journals, conference proceedings, or other technical literature.  

For more information and to download an application, see the Center for Teaching and Learning’s information page at http://www.bgsu.edu/ctl/page67663.html. The deadline for applications is August 7th.

If you have questions, contact Stefanie Hunker at sdennis@bgsu.edu or 372-7893

The Libraries recently subscribed to Westlaw Campus Research, a full-text online database for legal research. It contains legal news, statutes and information, including over 700 full text law reviews and journals, such as American Jurisprudence and American Law Reports. It also contains primary sources, including the United States Code Annotated (USCA), all federal and state cases including U.S. Supreme Court cases, state statutes and regulations from all 50 states, the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), and the Federal Register.

For further information, view the database’s five-minute overview (requires free registration), or just log in and start searching!

Check out the latest edition of the UL newsletter, Bibliofiles.

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Are you interested in learning more about the environment and how you can help the Earth? OhioLINK and your library provide many helpful resources, including digital videos, books, e-books, databases and journals, to help you to help you expand your knowledge on these and other topics.

Here are some resources to start with:
Climate Control libguide
Planet Earth: Seven Ways to Help Save the World
Bill Moyers Reports: Earth on Edge
Going Green: Real-World Solutions for the Environment
Advanced Air and Noise Pollution Control
The Green House
The Greening of IT: How Companies Can Make a Difference for the Environment
Electronic Journal Center
Environment Complete
GreenFILE
Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index

Due to ProQuest platform maintenance, the following databases and services will be unavailable for 12 hours starting at 22:00 (10 pm) on Saturday, February 21st and ending Sunday, February 22nd, at 10:00 am.

American Periodical Series Online
Dissertation Abstracts
New York Times online
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
Safari Books Online
Ref Works

We apologize for any inconvenience.

Update 5 am, Wednesday Feb 11, from OhioLINK:

*Available OhioLINK resources*: Library Catalog, Electronic Journal Center redirect page (redirects to publisher sites), Digital Media Center (all content is available), OSearch databases, Electronic Theses and Dissertation Center, Quick Search @ OhioLINK and the OhioLINK Web site, Electronic Books Center, the EAD, and Satellite images.

*Unavailable OhioLINK resources*: Some of the DRC instances are still unavailable.

Thank you for your continued patience during this process.

Update 6 pm, Tuesday Feb 10, from OhioLINK:

Update: Quick Search @ OhioLINK is back up, we forgot to mention it was down earlier. Another addition to the down list is the LANDSAT 7 Satellite Images collection.

Remote authentication now works for the majority of EJC publishers listed on the EJC home page, a few of the smaller ones may not work yet. Off-campus users who authenticate on the OhioLINK site will receive the right links to these publisher sites.

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OhioLINK resources have been partially restored following a hardware upgrade that was completed this afternoon. Staff are now working to resolve some technical problems that resulted from the upgrade and to restore the remaining resources as quickly as possible.

Here’s where we currently stand:

Available OhioLINK resources: Library Catalog, Electronic Journal Center redirect page (redirects to publisher sites), Digital Media Center (content is only partially restored), OSearch databases, Electronic Theses and Dissertation Center, Quick Search @ OhioLINK and the OhioLINK Web site.

Unavailable OhioLINK resources: E-Book Center, Digital Resource Commons, LANDSAT 7 Satellite Images and the EAD Finding Aid Creation Tool and OhioLINK Repository.

Thank you for your continued patience during this process.

Many OhioLINK resources, except for the OhioLINK Library Catalog, are offline. The OhioLINK Web site may also be down during this period. Resources will come back online in stages.

We apologize for the inconvenience and the late notice of this outage, but it is necessary to fix the cause of the massive hardware failure that took place on February 4. This outage won’t address the EJC, that is a separate problem which we continue to work diligently on.

How has OhioLINK helped you?

Were you able to finish a research project that would not have been possible otherwise? Did you get an A on a class assignment? Did you teach your students something new? Perhaps you found that rare resource you had been searching for?

Share your story here.

Due to inclement weather the following University Libraries areas are
closed effective immediately for the remainder of the day (Wednesday,
January 28, 2009): the Curriculum Resource Center, the Music Library
and Sound Recordings Archives, the Browne Popular Culture Library, the
Center for Archival Collections and the Science Library. The Jerome
library building will be open regular hours; limited services will be
available.

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