Reference at Newman Library

Year: 2014

Finding Citation Histories

A friend online just recommended this guide from Wichita State University Libraries as a source of advice about  how to do citation analysis. The guide has great step by step directions for way more than the usual options (Web of Science, Scopus, etc.) What I really like is that the advice is broken down for different disciplines, as it is the case that some tools work better than others depending on the discipline:

Trial to Films on Demand

Through March 9, all CUNY libraries have trial access to Films on Demand, a service that offers a huge collection of streaming video. Films on Demand allows subscriptions to individual sub-collections as well as to the whole collection. Please share this trial with any departments you work with along with the link to the form for gathering feedback on database trials (see the Trials tab on the Databases page). Access is limited to on-campus only.

Lib Guide for Friday’s SPA Career Fair

I’ve worked with Alison Charlebois, SPA Career Services Advisor, on a libguide for Friday’s SPA Career and Internship Fair. The guide features agencies that will be present for the fair. It also provides directories to nonprofits and government agencies and links to Newman Library resources. The guide is at
http://guides.newman.baruch.cuny.edu/spa_career.

Trial to Investext Research Reports

Through March 7, we have a trial to Investext Research Reports. These reports can now be found within the Thomson ONE database. If you run a search for a company and scroll down on the profile page for that company, you’ll see in the lower left corner “Latest 5 Research Reports.” These are the Investext reports that we have trial access to. Here is what it looks like when you bring up the profile page for Google:

Thomson ONE--research reports from Investext

 

Other ways to retrieve reports:

  • Click Company Views and select Research. One may retrieve reports issued in the past 90 days or earlier to the past year or do a custom search of a time period. One may also search for reports by specific providers.
  • Click Screening and Analysis and select Research. Reports going back five years are available, or a custom time period. More search options are available than under Company views. Keyword searches are possible.

I’ve added a link for “Investext Research Reports” to the Trials tab on the Databases page. If you are sharing news of this trial with departments you work with, it is worth mentioning that:

  • you must use Internet Explorer
  • the link says “Investext Research Reports” but you will actually be in Thomson ONE, as this content we have trial access to is an add on to our existing subscription

Trial to ACLS Humanities E-Book

Through March, we have a passw0rd-protected trial to ACLS Humanities E-Book. Login instructions can be found in the database description for the link and, in greater detail on the Databases Overview page in the Library Services Wiki. As with all other trials, the link to it may be found on the Trials tab of the Databases page.

Please share this with any relevant departments on campus and encourage them to offer feedback.

Full Text Links and Cited References Lists in Business Source Complete

Ryan alerted me to a problem that I just reported to EBSCO. If you are in Business Source Complete and click on the “Cited References” link on the left side of an article record, you’ll be taken to a page that lists all the sources used in the article. Below each source is our “Find It” icon that links to our SFX service. For some sources on this list, though, there is both the “Find It” icon AND a link to the full text in HTML or PDF form. Here’s a screenshot of an example of that problem. The article where I took that screenshot from is:

Porter, Michael E. “Consumer Behavior, Retailer Power And Market Performance In Consumer Goods Industries.” Review Of Economics & Statistics 56.4 (1974): 419. Business Source Complete. Web. 21 Feb. 2014.

http://remote.baruch.cuny.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=4642498&site=ehost-live

The full text links work fine and aren’t really a problem, but ideally, the “Find It” button shouldn’t also be showing if the full text is indeed available.