Reference at Newman Library

Year: 2013

Google Scholar Now Lets You Save Citations

If you are logged into your Google account when you are searching in Google Scholar, you can now save your citations in the new “My Library” feature. Details on this new feature can be found on the Google Scholar Blog.

If you do happen to use Google Scholar or recommend it to students and faculty, make sure you go to the link on our Databases page for it, as that one is set up so that our “Find It” links will appear next to citations that we have full text for and so that our remote login system is activated if the user is off campus (see this 2012 blog post for details on our setup).

Find It Links in Business Source Complete for WSJ Don’t Work

If you find a record for a Wall Street Journal article in Business Source Complete and try to click the “Find it” button to get to the full text, the link on the SFX menu that opens up will offer a link to the full text in ABI/INFORM Global. That link, though, will fail once you are taken into ABI/INFORM Global. The full text of the Wall Street Journal is actually there in ABI/INFORM Global and can still be found by searching within the ABI/INFORM Global interface for the article; the problem is that EBSCO and ProQuest have different ways of indexing articles from the WSJ. That difference makes the Find It service from SFX fail, as the metadata that EBSCO has doesn’t match up with what ProQuest has.

EBSCO support told me that they are aware of this problem and are working to resolve it. It’s not clear how long it may be before it is fixed.

Here are some screenshots to illustrate the problem we are currently seeing:

A Wall Street Journal article record in Business Source Complete…

WSJ article in BSC

…clicking the “Find it” button opens up a SFX menu window that looks like this…

SFX menu

 

…clicking the “Full Text Online” link in the SFX menu window takes you into ABI/INFORM Global but fails to find the article…

ABI INFORM Global error message

 

…even though the article is really findable in ABI/INFORM Global if you search for it:

WSJ article in ABI

Trial: Statistical Abstracts of the World

Through December 14, all of CUNY has trial access to ProQuest’s Statistical Abstracts of the World. Please share this with the departments you work if you think it might be of interest and provide this link for faculty to fill out a form with any feedback they may have:

Link to the trials tab on the Databases page:

http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/content.php?pid=349494&sid=3462218

Link to the form for feedback:

https://baruch.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_55pEz95uVBuxwNL

As per usual, feel free to pass along your comments directly to Mike or as a comment to this blog post.

Full Text Problem in PsycINFO (updated)

Since yesterday afternoon, there’s been a notable problem with PsycINFO. If you run a search, you’ll see that none of your results will include full text, only Find it! links from the SFX service. EBSCO support told me on the phone yesterday that this was a known problem (i.e., it’s a widespread problem for all PsycINFO subscribers). As a workaround, try the Find it! links as a means to tracking down full text or use our our journals search feature in the yellow search bar of our website.

This problem is not appearing in any other EBSCOhost database (including PsycARTICLES). As soon as EBSCO fixes this, I’ll post a new entry on the blog (with any luck, that fix will come through later today).

UPDATE 11/18/2013: The problem has been fixed by EBSCO.

Statistical Consulting Laboratory

In this week’s newsletter from the college, there was an interesting announcement about a “Statistical Consulting Laboratory” that faculty and Ph.D. students can go to for help:

The Statistical Consulting Lab is open from Monday through Thursday at the Newman Vertical Campus, Room 11-170. Professor Shula Gross and statistics graduate student Jing Shuai offer statistical support for faculty and their PhD students’ research. The support ranges from discussing possible analytic venues, to alternative analyses when the one already tried failed to highlight aspects of the data you deem important. The lab also offers nine computers for use. Jing offers programming support in data editing and analysis in Excel, SPSS, SAS and R, as well as some STATA. For more information contact Professor Gross at [email protected] or call (646) 312-3434.

Books 24×7 ebooks OPAC record display Nov 16-17, 2013

In an effort to update records in our library catalog, bibliographic records for all Books 24×7 ebooks will be unavailable on the CUNY+ OPAC on Saturday and Sunday, Nov 16-17. Only ebooks in our Books 24×7 subscription are affected. These records will not appear in browse or search results as existing records are being removed. On Sunday, users might begin to SEE partially loaded new records (records without holdings or external links). We expect full functionality to be in place by Sunday evening. In the meantime, users can continue to access these ebooks via the publisher’s site (instructions). We hope that this update will lead to restoring direct click-throughs from the CUNY+ OPAC later on.  Thank you for your patience.

Help Needed for Troubleshooting Problem with EBSCOhost and Internet Explorer

After contacting EBSCOhost about the problem some of us have seen in Internet Explorer where the clickable icons on the article records don’t work, I learned that we may need to look more closely at the internet options and plugins in the browsers to see if that is the source of the problem. To help find those machines and begin comparing set up differences, I need your help.

On any computer in your office, classroom, lab, etc., please go into any EBSCOhost database while using the Internet Explorer browser, run a search, click through to an individual article, and then see if the icons on the right work for you:

EBSCOhost--icon problem in IE

 

Then, go to this form in Qualtrics to answer a few questions about whether it worked or not.

Thank you so much!