Annenberg Media: Free Resources

Annenberg Media has free video on demand, as well as other multimedia resources, on their website Learner.org.

"Annenberg Media's multimedia resources help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home. All Annenberg Media videos exemplify excellent teaching." -- About Us, Learner.org

Many of the media teacher resources may be viewed with a broadband connection. A one time service registration is required, but it is free. For more information, browse the available teacher resources on their website.

This information originally posted on the IRC blog - Free Video Resources.

EJC Restoration Update

From the OhioLINK What's New blog post, EJC Restoration Update: Emerald, Institute of Physics, Muse, and Oxford University Press Restored

"OhioLINK staff have restored all Electronic Journal Center content from four more publishers: Emerald, the Institute of Physics, Project Muse (except for some very old Muse content) and Oxford University Press. A complete list of restored publishers is posted on the EJC home page." -- Candi Clevenger, OhioLINK

EJC Update

From the OhioLINK What's New Blog, an update on the EJC Restoration:

OhioLINK staff have restored all Electronic Journal Center content from:

American Psychological Association
BioOne
Cambridge University
Press
Ingenta
The Optical Society of America
The Royal Society of
Chemistry
Sage
Thieme
Wiley

"You can access this content directly from the EJC. To access content from other EJC publishers, please continue to visit the publishers’ Web sites from the links provided on the EJC home page."

"We continue to reload content from other publishers and will keep you updated on our progress." -- Candi Clevenger, OhioLINK

OhioLINK: EJC Restoration Update

Another update from the OhioLINK What's New blog:

The EJC restoration process continues. OhioLINK staff have now restored EJC content from 2005 to the present for most publishers, except Elsevier, Springer and Blackwell. Students, faculty and staff at OhioLINK member institutions can access the currently available EJC content via the alphabetical links on the EJC home page. The alphabetical links show only those journals that are currently available in the EJC, for other journals or issues please continue to visit the publishers’ sites directly.

We are also making progress in the background on restoring the larger EJC publishers, Elsevier, Springer and Blackwell. -- Candi Clevenger, OhioLINK

OhioLINK: EJC Update

The latest update from OhioLINK regarding EJC:

While content in the Electronic Journal Center remains unavailable, OhioLINK is working diligently to provide access to the same content on each publisher's Web site. Available publishers’ sites are listed here and we continue to update this list as needed. Project Muse has been added to the list today and their content is now available. Links to the listed publisher sites work for both on and off campus users.

Over the weekend OhioLINK staff were able to restore EJC content from 2008-2009 for most publishers, except Elsevier, Springer and Blackwell. We continue to work to restore the remaining EJC content as quickly as possible, but do not have all the reload processes in place yet nor the experience to provide a useful time line for full EJC restoration. We hope to be able to share a schedule in the near future.

Since we have a growing body of available content, we restored the alphabetical title links on the EJC home page. These links show only those journals that are currently available, for other journals or issues please continue to visit the publishers’ sites. -- Candi Clevenger, Communications Manager, OhioLINK

Library Spotlight: New Books

AU library adds new books to it's collection throughout the academic year. When shelf ready, new books are featured on the book shelf located on the main floor, adjacent to the reference and circulation area.

All titles have been selected by AU librarians and are subject to the library's collection development policy which includes professional reviews and recommendations by faculty members. Recent additions to the collection include:

• Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy
  B2430.M3764 H38 2008
• Lincoln: the Biiography of a Writer
  E457.2.K357 2008
• Mrs. Lincoln: A Life
  E457.25.L55 C55 2009
• When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot Against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them
  HD7125.G465 2008
• Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse
  HD9502.U54 E579225 2008
• Stage Presence
  PN2058.G66 2008
• A Comics Studies Reader
  PN6710.C667 2009
• Best African American Essays, 2009
  PS683.A35 B48 2009
• MicroRNAs: From Basic Science to Disease Biology
  QP623.M53 2008
• A Portrait of the Brain
  RC351.Z46 2008

Interested in recommending a book for the library? Contact your library liason for more information.

Update: OhioLINK

As of 8:44 pm yesterday, an update on resource availability:

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: Most of the DRC instances are still unavailable. Data on those instances was corrupted but can be recovered from backup. We expect to have all of the data recovered by tomorrow afternoon.

Thank you for your continued patience during this process. -- Anita Cook, OhioLINK

Update: OhioLINK Outage

Update regarding resources going off-line today:

" ... all OhioLINK resources, except for the OhioLINK Library Catalog, (will be taken) offline sometime between 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. The OhioLINK Web site will also be down during this period. Resources will come back online in stages, and we estimate that it may take up to an hour for all resources to come back up. We’ll keep you posted if plans change again." - Candi Clevenger, OhioLINK

OhioLINK Resources

More news from OhioLINK:

"All OhioLINK resources, except for the OhioLINK Library Catalog, will go offline at noon. The OhioLINK Web site will also be down during this period. Resources will come back online in stages, and we estimate that it may take up to an hour for all resources to come back up."

"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 outagewon’t address the EJC, that is a separate problem which we continue to work diligently on." - Candi Clevenger, OhioLINK