Reference at Newman Library

Year: 2014

Starting a New Blog Post

When you log into the blog so you can write a new post, don’t be distracted by the “Quick Draft” box. Instead, use the “+ New” link in the top black nav bar instead:

Reference at Newman Library blog--dashboard

 

At the moment, the Blogs@Baruch staff is reporting that the Quick Draft feature is broken anyway.

Searching for Content on This Blog

I’m interested in making this blog easier to use and am wondering if you have had any problems with finding posts on this blog. Was there a time when you were trying to find something that you were sure was here but then you couldn’t find it? If you have any stories like that or if you have have suggestions, just add a comment to this post.

At the moment, there are three main ways to find content on this blog.

Search

Link to the Search page can be found on the navigation bar:

Reference at Newman Library blog--search on nav bar

 

When you run a search, results are sorted by relevancy, not by date. Also, if your search term is also a tag on the blog, the first item on the results page is probably a page indexing all the posts tagged with that word.

Reference at Newman Library blog--search results ranking

This search is powered by a Google Custom Search Engine that searches the posts from 2009-present that are on the current Blogs@Baruch site and from 2004-2009 on the older Blogspot site. Results of searches will include posts from both sites.

Tags

As you compose a blog post, you can add tags to enhance findability:

Reference at Newman Library blog--tagging posts

Feel free to add them as you write new posts.

Once a post is published, tags for it can be found at the bottom of posts:

Reference at Newman Library blog--tags

 

In the Databases Overview page on the wiki, you may see that in many rows, there is a link in the last column for “Blog.” If you click that link, you’ll be taken to the index page on the blog for that database tag.

Reference at Newman Library blog--blog tags in the wiki

 

Archive

Today, there is a new “Archive” page on the blog with an index of all the blog posts since 2009. That’s all of the posts since we started using Blogs@Baruch. A link to the archive is  on the black navigation bar of the blog.

Updating Reports in IBISWorld

Because a student asked for an IBISWorld report we couldn’t find, I called our rep to ask about their updating and retention policy.  Industry reports in the U.S. Core collection are updated from two to four times a year depending on the volatility of the industry.  Changes in the industry environment or new government regulations will prompt an update.  Special “one off” reports or reports on new emerging industries are covered in the U.S. Special collection and these  reports are only updated by client request. If they are not actively used, these reports are taken down after 18 months. At Baruch we have access to both the U.S. Core and U.S. Special collections and the IBISWorld Global reports.

Remote Access Anomaly with Factiva (update: fixed on 9 May 2014)

Update: 9 May 2014 This problem is now fixed.

A number of libraries that use EZproxy (like us) for remote login authentication are finding that when you go to Factiva, you get a somewhat scary looking warning message from your browser. Here’s the exact behavior:

  1. User who is off campus clicks on link on library website for Factiva
  2. User gets the usual remote authentication page that asks for Baruch username and password
  3. After successfully entering login info, the browser starts to go to Factiva but then shows a page with a scary looking warning. Depending on your browser, the warning message will look like this:

Chrome

Factiva--browser warning message in Chrome

Firefox

Factiva--browser warning message in Firefox

It is perfectly OK for users to ignore this warning and click the relevant button(s) that let them move on. In Chrome, you click “Proceed Anyway.” In Firefox, you click “I Understand the Risks.” I have contacted tech support at ProQuest (which provides us access to Factiva) for assistance with this and am also looking into possible solutions on the EZproxy mailing list, where this problem has in the last week been raised by a number of other libraries.

Trial to Rosetta Stone

Rosetta Stone offers language instruction. Trial details:

  • Trial is via EBSCO
  • Each user will need to create their own personal account;  they must enter their email and create a password (no other information is required).
  • Each user will be able to access their personal trial account for the length of the trial, beginning on the day they create their personal account.
  • CUNY-wide trial
  • Ends June 18
  • Link can be found on the “Trials” tab of the main databases page
  • Instructions for installing the Rosetta Stone app
  • Send any comments on the feedback form on the “Trials” tab of the main databases page

The 500 Articles from Harvard Business Review You Can’t Download

As a follow up to earlier posts here on the reference blog about the restrictions that Harvard Business School Press has put on how we can search and use articles from the Harvard Business Review, I thought I’d share this list of the 500 articles that the publisher has decided can’t be downloaded or printed from Business Source Complete (pdf).