2009 – Page 13 – Reference at Newman Library

Journal alerts from SSRN

Did you know that faculty can set up individual subscriptions to SSRN and receive alerts from any one of the SSRN networks that we subscribe to. The procedure for establishing a password and selecting the journal alerts is explained in this short video that is part of the SSRN FAQ.

Library Tours for Students in Freshman Seminar

As part of the Freshman Seminar (FRO) program, there will be student-led tours of the library throughout September:

August 31

9:05-10:20 (2 sections)
11:10-12:25 (2 sections)
12:50-2:05 (2 sections)
2:55-4:10 (2 sections)

September 1

9:05-10:20 (2 sections)
11:10-12:25 (4 sections)
12:50-2:05 (1 section)
4:10-5:25 (2 sections)

September 2

9:05-10:20 (2 sections)
10:45-12:00 (2 sections)
12:50-2:05 (2 sections)
2:55-4:10 (1 section)
4:10-5:25 (1 section)

September 3

9:05-10:20 (1 section)
11:10-12:25 (1 section)

September 4

11:10-12:25 (1 section)

September 8

9:05-10:20 (2 sections)
11:10-12:25 (2 sections)
12:50-2:05 (4 sections)
4:10-5:25 (2 sections)

September 9

9:05-10:20 (1 section)
10:45-12:00 (2 sections)
12:50-2:05 (2 sections)

September 10

9:05-10:20 (2 sections)
11:10-12:25 (1 section)

September 11

11:10-12:25 (2 sections)
6:00-7:15 (1 section)

September 21

9:05-10:20 (3 sections)
11:10-12:25 (2 sections)
12:50-2:05 (2 sections)
2:55-4:10 (2 sections)

Wikipedia sets limits on edits for a two-month trial

Reports from the Wikimania conference in Buenos Aires are stating that Wikipedia will now limit changes on entries about living people due to some embarrassing incidents this year. read more at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/internet/25wikipedia.html

New database: FASB Accounting Standards Codification

We have added the FASB Accounting Standards Codification to our list of resources.

Canceled databases

The following 2 databases have been canceled and removed from the list of databases:

Mental Measurements
Stat-USA

Debit and Credit Accounting “Tutorial”

We received an email question this weekend from a patron looking for an Accounting Tutorial on Debits and Credits. This is not listed in our Tutorials & Guides, but is available in our Digital Media Library.

http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/dml/engine.php?action=viewMedia&source=search&mediaIndex=539&listPlace=1&genreFilter=0&typeFilter=0

Additional Printers in the Library

Six additional printers are now available on the second floor of the library. Only two of these are in the printer room. Two printers have been placed near the stand up computer terminals and two more are adjacent to the reference desk just outside the printer room.

Quicksilver Titles

For the past week, I had been meaning to spotlight an interesting article from the 19 August 2009 edition of The New York Times about medical journal articles that are written by ghostwriters working for pharmaceutical companies. Today, as I sat down to find the article online, I was reminded of a not uncommon problem with article titles in newspapers: the title itself may not be stable. While the print edition and the online editions at Factiva, LexisNexis Academic, and New York State Newspapers all the Natasha Singer article as “Ghosts in the Journals,” the free version of the article on The New York Times web site has the article titled, “Senator Moves to Stop Medical Ghostwriting.” The date of that web version is also different by one day; instead of a August 19 dateline, it has one of August 18. It will be interesting to see which version of the article is the one that ends up in the Proquest Historical Newspapers database in a few years.

EBSCOhost Databases Back Up

It must have been a blip in our access that lead to our downtime a short time ago.

EBSCOhost Databases Down

I just let Mike Waldman know that at the moment we can’t access any EBSCOhost databases.

UPDATE: Access is back.